Holiday NOTD - Getting the Hang of Konad

Hello everyone!!!!! *waves excitedly* I'm back! Woohoo! I finished my very first semester of graduate school (officially) last Wednesday! BUT one of my profs is letting our class take Incompletes so that our papers are not due until Jan. 10. So I still have a paper to work on, but it's only 1 paper and there's no other reading to worry about . :) Phew! I made it, guys!!! I won't know my grades until (at the earliest) Jan. 4, but most likely I won't know until 2nd semester starts. EEK!

So now that I'm not stressing like a fiend, I decided to do a holiday mani! I just got my first Konad materials a few weeks ago but didn't have time to play with it until this weekend. This mani is 3 coats of Essie Lollipop, a pretty bright red/verging on orange jellish creme, and 1 coat of Nicole by OPI Winter Glitterland. Scrangie has some awesome swatches of both of these colors.

Then I used Konad plate M12 for the bell and the candy cane.

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I'm looking forward to more regular posts during my winter break! I'm still working though so I can't necessarily spend all day every day swatching, though I wish I could. :( I'm also planning on doing a post about my new treatment regimen, which has turned out better than I could have expected, as evident by my newly long nails!!!

Thanks for reading!