Cranberries!

Oh, my life is changing every day...ahem (song reference...guess which?)...Can anyone believe how fast the holidays come round? They really seem to arrive faster every year. As my favorite food-themed holiday looms, I felt inspired to make something, well, food themed-ish. One of my favorite Thanksgiving foods is cranberry sauce, both homemade and canned, but especially canned (drool). The actual berries are so rich in color and the reds vary a bit...as does my selection of red nail polish.

Delightfully red cranberries!
Source: Stock photo

And here it is...cranberry nail art! And some other color coordinated nail art, too. I have a difficult time doing the same thing on each nail (because there are so many options!!) so only my middle and ring fingers were intended to be cranberry-inspired.

Indoor lighting

To create the cranberry look, I used a dotting tool with 5 different red polishes (listed below). Dots were layered in varying shades until the whole nail was covered. I loved how the reds looked together so I chose to use them in different ways on my other fingers. Index and pinkie were done with a dotting tool and a striping brush. Thumb is free-handed stripes with a striping brush.

Outdoors (no sun)

Outdoors (no sun)

This is one of those manis that I had a half-baked idea of what I wanted to do and really didn't expect it to turn out too cohesively, but I think it worked out well. Now about that canned cranberry sauce...

How about some other holiday nail art? Have any ideas? Comment below.

Thanks for reading!


Polishes used:
Zoya - Rue (nude)
butter LONDON - Abso-bloody-lutely (oxblood red)
OPI - Skyfall (wine red)
China Glaze - Ruby Pumps (red glitter)
Zoya - Sooki (true red)
China Glaze - Roguish Red (orange red)