For my recreation, I just put the trees on my ring fingers and thumbs to cut down on the time it would take to complete the manicure. I started out with two coats of Sinful Colors Cool Gray on all of my nails. On the fingers that I wouldn't be sponging and stamping, I applied a coat of Sally Hansen Diamonds, a fine glitter. Then I put on one coat of Sally Hansen Dries Instantly. I also put a coat of Dries Instantly on the nails that I would be sponging so avoid taking off the gray polish with the sponge.
When that was all dry I put some gray and white polish on my makeup sponge like this:
There is actually a line of white polish underneath the gray polish (Sally Hansen Hard to Get.) It is touching the gray polish. I found out how to successfully sponge nails! You need some of your base color on the sponge too, so the new color you are sponging on seems to blend with the base color. I used a stippling motion to sponge on the polish. I was so excited to see that it actually worked for me this time! A few months ago I attempted to sponge my nails, but it did not turn out very well.
When the sponged polish was dry, I stamped on trees from Bundle Monster's plate BM407. I used Sally Hansen Black Out as my stamping color. On my left hand, which is the hand I post on my blog most of the time, I accidentally stamped the trees crooked. I just pretend that they are blowing in the wind. Haha! I stamped better on my right hand:
I applied two coats of Dries Instantly over the stamped nails. After the manicure was complete, I used acetone to clean up all the polish around my nails. I am very excited by this manicure. Pinezoe.com is where the picture on Pinterest came from. She is a very talented nail blogger!
I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas! I cannot believe it is tomorrow! My next blog post will be a series of pictures showing exactly how to stamp your nails.
Pinezoe's nail picture is here: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/421368108857517435/
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