15 Festive Manis To Get You In The Holiday Spirit

You've got your big sweater and your bow all ready, but your Christmas look isn't complete until you've done something fun and creative to get your nails into the holiday spirit as well. These cute ideas will be the talk of every Christmas party.

Peppermint Swirl

When you want to be minty fresh, you need to remember that you recreate that minty fresh exterior from your after dinner mints on your finger nails. The minty fresh manicure is one that swirls with the red and white of a mint. Also, you can have swirling colors in green and white for your nails. You might even combine the two to create a really festive look.

Snow Angels

For a super easy holiday look, try a snow angel nail polish. The soft, glittery white is perfect for the winter, and will make you look ethereal.

Holiday Daze

You can create a holidaze when you are painting your nails a number of different colors at once. You can have a spiral of holiday colors that all come together. Also, you have a number of different colors on each nail. You can have a daze that comes across many fingers, or you can have a daze that is happening on every finger.

Candy Cane

The look of the candy cane is much different than that of a mint. You can have the simple swipes of red go across a basic white background. Also, you can add sparkles and glitter to your candy cane nails. These nails look like they were made in candy, and they allow you to look clean and fresh.

Fruitcake

The fruitcake collage that you create on your nails is going to change the way you appear when you are trying to make the most of your nails. You can have the soft greens and yellows of the candy inside the fruitcake come through, or you can have a nice orange background that looks just like the cake itself.

Jack Frost

Adding a snowman to your nails is just the beginning of the nails that you can wear this holiday season. When you paint these snowmen on, you can decorate them in any way you want. You can have the carrot and coal on the snowmen, or you can make them in a much more plain fashion. This makes you look festive, but it is also youthful and soft.

Holiday Lights

You can paint holiday lights on your nails that will look like a strand that came right from your tree. The tree itself is something that you can paint on your nails, or you can paint the lights with string that will seem to go from one nail to another. This is the best way to make sure that you are looking festive without doing something too formal.

Snowfall

When you want to depict snowfall on your nails, you need to make sure that you using the simple purple background of the snowfall as cover. You can use small white dots to make it look like it is snowing on your nails, and you can use larger snowflakes that are going to look amazing. The snowfall is a way to imply the weather of the season in a classy way.

Snow Flakes

When you paint simple snowflakes on your nails, you will be able to make your nails look more decorative. The snowflakes can be use to make sure that you have something intricate on your nails. You can paint on amazing snowflakes that have incredible detail. Also, you will be able to make each snowflake different. You will look like you are ready for the holidays, and you will be able to have something on your nails every day of the season.

Christmas Trees

What could be more festive than a glittery Christmas tree on each of your nails? If you’re worried about getting a perfect triangle for your tree, you can use Scotch tape to ensure straight lines.

Silver Bells

This one is perfect for the glitter lovers out there. This glittery ombre design is easy to achieve by using a solid silver base coat, and then applying a white glitter top coat. Finally, apply a glittery silver coat to just the top half of your nails.

Santa

Who better to get you in the holiday spirit than Saint Nick himself? Carefully paint yourself a simple Santa head on one nail with your red and white nail polishes, then create a simple two-toned red and white look for the rest. If your lines aren’t straight, just add a line of silver glitter polish over the border and nobody will know.

Rudolph

Rudolph may not have been allowed to play any reindeer games, but he certainly knows how to add a whole lot of cute to your outfit. With a brown base coat, just add the antlers and eyes, and of course the red nose!

Mistletoe

A mistletoe is the perfect flirty holiday design for your nails. Getting those leaves just right can be tough, so try it on just one nail. For the rest, a two-tones red and white look will do wonders in making it pop.

Presents

What’s Christmas really all about? For some it’s about family, for others faith, but if you’re like me, then it’s really about the presents! Show that off in your nails by simply adding a vertical and horizontal line to one nail and then finishing it off with a bow on the intersection.