Your clients are already pouring into your salon for holiday party-ready looks, so get ready with these four festive designs, created by Bio Sculpture educator, Sarah O’Brien.

Merry berry

1. On a prepared nail, apply a layer of base gel.

2. Apply Devoted Petal and lightly gradate the colour lightly towards the centre of the nail to create a faded look and cure.

3. Apply Beauty of Perfection to the centre of the nail. Lightly blend into Devoted Petal and towards the opposite edge of the nail to create a faded look and cure.

4. Apply Gorgeous Decay to the edge of the nail, lightly blending it towards Beauty of Perfection to complete the gradation.

5. Create the upper arch with Hard or Medium Gel and cure.

6. Apply a final layer of Gloss Gel and cure.

 All that glitters

1. On a prepared nail, apply a layer of base gel.

2. Apply a layer of Beauty of Perfection, cure and repeat.

3. Using Soft Gel and a nail art brush, paint horizontal lines from both sides of the nail to create raised lines and cure.

4. Apply gold foil randomly to the nail until the desired effect is achieved. Apply a layer of Soft Gel and cure.

5. Using your nail art brush, accent the design with a few lines of Beauty of Perfection on top of the gold foil.

6. Apply a final layer of Gloss Gel and cure.

 Diamonds are a girl’s best friend

1. On a prepared nail, apply a layer of base gel.

2. Apply a layer of Wilting Bouquet, cure and repeat.

3. Using a nail art brush and Snow White, create a diamond shape to the centre of the nail, fill it in with Snow White and cure.

4. Continue the diamond pattern with Snow White and a nail art brush, curing in between lines to keep them tidy, until you have create a growing diamond pattern covering the entire nail.

5. Accent the diamond pattern with Gorgeous, Her Majesty and Snow White.

6. Create the upper arch with Hard or Medium Gel and cure.

7. Apply a final layer of Gloss Gel and cure.

Sparkle and shine

1. On a prepared nail, apply a layer of base gel.

2. Apply a layer of Liquorice to the nail, cure and repeat.

3. Apply sweeps of Gorgeous Dcay down the nail, leaving spaces of Liquorice between them and cure.

4. Using a nail art brush and Rose Bud, add a few accent lines to the spaces in between Liquorice and cure.

5. Create the upper arch with Hard or Medium Gel and cure.

6. Apply a final layer of Gloss Gel and cure.