Hi everyone,
I have decided to put together a Christmas Gift Guide for Nail Lovers. It might give an idea to you or your loved ones what to buy and what's available. I've included many items that are often a bit pricier so it would be a lovely Christmas treat. There are many items in this guide that I would personally like to own so I hope you will feel the same way and maybe, just maybe you will find some of them under you Christmas tree :)
FLAKIES!
Flakies are a huge thing now, especially the new multichrome opaque flakie polishes. I'm lucky to own six of the new ILNP flakie polishes and I can wholeheartedly say - you should get some! They look stunning and are very versatile and there's a lot of variety at the moment. Some of the flakie polishes available are:
ILNP Ultra Chrome Flakies $12.50 each
Polish Me Silly Flakie Topcoats $7.50 each
Girly Bits Ermahgerd Flerkers! $13 each
LOUBOUTIN POLISH
These beauties can't be left out of my list. The release of Louboutin polishes earlier this year caused a lot of stir and I must say one day I would like to own the classic red one too. The whole bottle is just a thing of beauty and I think it will be a prized possession in every nail lover's collection.
Louboutin polishes are available at:
US: Louboutin website, Sephora, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom...
UK: Louboutin website UK, Selfridges, Harvey Nichols...
BLING IT UP!
Nails Inc offers a special customisable polishes. You can choose blinged up caps, smooth gold cap or silver monogrammed cap and different nail polish shades and create your own combination. These polishes come with a £20-25 price tag so it would definitely be a nice personalised stocking filler. You can get them at Nails Inc website.
STAMPING PLATES
Those who stamp never have enough stamping plates, right? I see it with myself, I want more and more, just imagining the possibilities I could do with them and all the new brands and collections just leave me wanting more. I'm sure that if you buy some stamping plates for those who like stamping nail art they won't be disappointed. Plates can be bought from $0.99 upwards. Some of the brands of stamping plates available are:
MoYou London
Pueen Cosmetics
Bundle Monster
Winstonia Store
MoYou Nails
Dashica
Vivid Lacquer plates
Messy Mansion
Born Pretty Store
TAKING CARE OF THOSE MITTS!
Hand care products are another category of gifts that nail lovers will appreciate. To keep our hands nice and healthy we use a lot of hand creams, cuticle balms and oils. Also don't forget about all the lotions, soaks and hand scrubs! There's a vast array of brands and products on the market and there's no way I can list them all so I just picked some that I tried and liked.
Rituals Hand Therapy scrub & mask
All That Jazz Hand and nail care products
LUSH Lemony Flutter
Glisten & Glow Nail + Cuticle Balm
Alessandro Cream Royal Nutrifying Hand Treatment (mask)
OPI Avoplex Hand Cream
L'Occitane Shea Butter Hand Cream
SpaRitual Handprint Hand Serum
SpaRitual Cuti-Cocktail cuticle oil
Bliss Kiss Nail Oil*
THE NAIL LOVER'S NEW BEST FRIEND
I'm sure you've all seen the wonderful new 'tool' called Liquid Palisade, right? It has been around for a while but lately it seems to gain immense popularity as a 'clean up tool'. It's basically a liquid latex in a tub with a brush for easy application. Here's what I'm thinking - if you want to make 'nail lover' happy, Liquid Palisade is a great cool product to have but it comes with a $22 price tag. If you want to make yourself happy and want to save some pennies then you can buy yourself a tub of coloured liquid latex found in costume shops, Amazon or other different online stores. You can put it into old cleaned out nail polish bottle or nail art pen bottle for convenience (tip: Use a drinking straw to transfer the latex into smaller bottle).
NAIL FILES
Having a good nail file is essential so why not treat your beloved nail addict with their favourite brand's file or fancy crystal-decorated nail file? Crystal nail files are a great choice and currently there is plenty of choice out there. I can personally recommend the Mont Bleu Czech Crystal nail files which are beautifully decorated with Swarovski crystals. Other available crystal nail files are:
Mont Bleu Czech Design Glassware
Leighton Denny Crystal Nail File
Cirque Crystal Nail File
Bliss Kiss Crystal Nail File*
OPI Crystal File
THE ULTIMATE FIX
I must include The Ultimate Fix, a polish drying spray. I have been using it for the past year whenever I did manicure for 'going out' and it's one of my staples. I'm sure that every woman that paints her own nails will appreciate the saved time and smudge-free manicure with this product. I have previously written a full review here. The Ultimate Fix is available in two sizes and priced at £17 for the 200ml bottle (50 manicures) and £9.50 for the 50ml bottle (12 manicures) on Beauty Narcotix website.
NAIL POLISH GIFT BOXES
Many brands are releasing various nail polish gift boxes for the holiday season so there is plenty to choose from if you want to gift nail polish. Usually the popular ones are from OPI, China Glaze, Leighton Denny (beautiful kaleidoscope & holographic packaging this year), Sparitual and many more. Just pop into your local drug store or visit the brand websites to find them.
BLISS KISS MUST-HAVES
I simply must include my favourite brand of nail oil - Bliss Kiss (reviewed here). There are hundreds of others that will agree with me saying this oil is a blessing and it's really great! If you want to improve condition of your nails and cuticles then I can more than recommend this product as a gift or to try yourself. Ana, the creator of Bliss Kiss, has also brought some new other amazing products on the market and one of them is Simply Sealed Lotion stick. I like to use both the oil and the lotion stick every night and keeps my mitts in top condition.
Both Bliss Kiss nail oil and Simply Sealed Stick are available in Nailcare HQ online store*.
POLISH TAGS
Polish Me Silly brand has recently came up with cute polish tags in different styles and colours. I have purchased one straight away so I can show you how it looks in real life. The polish tags are definitely bigger than regular 'dog tags' as you can see and I will be proudly hanging mine on my car's review mirror.
This a very cute present and even better - you'll be supporting a small business! These tags cost $14.95 and will be available at Polish Me Silly Etsy store.
EDIT: It looks like there was an overwhelming demand and these tags will be available again at the beginning of next year.
LITTLE SILVER & GOLD LUXURY
Cirque has released a limited edition Ultimate Luxe Gift Set which consists of Au- 23 carat gold flake polish and Mirror Mirror - pure silver-coated flake polish. They look stunning and I'm pretty sure this would be a great gift for anyone who loves nail polish. This gift set can be purchased at Cirque website for $45.
CATCH IT BEFORE IT'S GONE!
And of course I need to include the newest addition to the piCture pOlish family - my own collaboration shade called Dragonfly (reviewed here)! There were six new collaboration shades in total and all can be found at piCture pOlish website for AU$13.
I hope my Christmas Guide at least inspired you. I'm sure there are plenty of great things that I forgot to cover so feel free to share them with others in the comments.
Have a lovely day! Lucie x
*I have not been compensated for including any of the items in the guide but it contains one affiliate link.