We ask celebrity manicurists to walk us through a handful of easy Christmas nails that anyone can recreate at home. So put on some holiday jammies, pour yourself a cup of hot cocoa, and get ready for cute nail overload. From there, you can create your French manicure using sparkly silver nail polish. You can use manicure tape, hand paint the tip, or use a French manicure stamping tool, like Dornail’s Clear Silicone French Tip Nail Stamper. Bonus: These Christmas nails will match everything you wear. “Add two different snowflakes using the first two polish colors on your nail without overlapping them,” says Alena Monson, a nail artist influencer and founder of Whats Up Beauty and Nails. “You can hand paint snowflakes using a detail brush, but it is much easier to use a stamping plate.” (Try the TwinkledT Snowflake Stamping Plate.) Simply apply polish to the plate, scrape off the excess, pick up the image with a silicone stamper, then roll it slowly over your nail to transfer the design. After all the snowflakes, add a layer of white jelly nail polish over the entire nail, let it dry, then repeat with two more colors. “Make sure to place new snowflakes slightly overlapping the ones you applied first, this will give a multidimensional effect,” says Monson. “Finally, seal with a clear top coat and you’re done! On the top, create a red French tip. On the underside, “apply multi-size dots for each candy and let it dry,” says celebrity manicurist Julie Kandalec, founder of the Julie K Nail Academy. Using a precision nail brush, “add four to five thick swirls to each candy and let it dry. Then add a thin line to the candy art for extra dimension.” Finish with a matte topcoat on the underside and a shiny top coat on the top of the nail.
