15 Holiday Nail Ideas You’ve Never Seen

holiday pine nail art

Pining for the Winter

Aren’t feeling the whole Christmas vibe? Here’s a festive winter design that celebrates nature. (We promise, no more candy canes.)

Get the look:

1. Start with a base coat.

2. Once dry, apply two coats of a textured gold nail polish. Then, using nail art pens in two different shades of green (try All Cosmetics, they offer a wide selection of green hues), build your branches starting with the tip of your nail. We suggest using one color at a time and allowing them to dry in between — this way you can layer your colors.

3. After the branches are done, use a brown polish to place a small dot/oval on a couple of the nails. This is the pinecone, so make sure it’s attached to the branch; you can even paint a few more branches to overlap the pinecone.

4. Finally, draw the ridges onto the pinecone in black with a very fine nail art brush.

5. Finish with a top coat.