It’s time for winter holiday nail art! One of the simplest designs is a festive variation on a French manicure: Santa hat nails. This Christmas nail art is a fun look that’s surprisingly easy to do. What’s more, you can quickly customize Santa hat nails to suit various styles. Hop in the sleigh and let’s go for a tour!

Jubilant Holiday Magic: Master Santa Hat Nails in Minutes

Santa Hat Nails on a Glittery Base

Since this adorable look will get lots of attention, it’s essential to clean up the cuticles and shape the tips before you do anything else. Oval and rounded tips are the ideal shapes for Santa hat nails, but it’s also possible to use stilettos and even square tips depending on the design. Applying cuticle oil daily will help keep this holiday manicure looking fresh no matter the style.

Start the magic by mixing holographic glitter into the neutral base color. Alternatively, use a glittery clear polish.

Next, choose an opaque white polish and create a horizontal line of dots about a quarter to a third of the way down the nail from the tip. On one side leave some space and put another dot lower than the rest – this will be the pom-pom.

Fluff the dots to look cottony like the brim of the Santa hat. Do the same for the pom-pom. Now, add opaque red tops on the tips to fill out the rest of the hat. Draw a line down to connect the pom-pom. Try to respect the fluffy texture where the red polish meets the white. Then finish with a glossy top coat.

If you’re working with nail lacquer, make sure each layer of color has lots of time to set before adding the next. Quick dry drops help a lot! If you’re using gel polish, it’s easier to perfect the cottony parts if needed because you don’t have to worry about smudging once it’s cured.

Another possibility is to use nail stickers that look like Santa hats. You may need to trim them to fit, but the top coat will help them look hand-painted from a distance.

Sometimes the biggest challenge in doing Santa hat nails is finding the right red shade. We recommend browsing the Scarlet Bloom Collection as it has warm and cool-hued red polishes, plus glitter and cat eye gels.

Santa Hat Accent Nail

Instead of matching all your nails like a miniature Santa convention, mix it up with other designs. Here are some that look like the nails are wrapped up like presents for Christmas. Much of this festive nail art was drawn with a dotting pen.

Other Holiday Nail Colors

Here are square Santa hat nails that are customized a little differently. As you can see, the shape works because it’s like the hat flopped over. What’s more, the green color is like an elf hat instead of something St. Nick would wear.

The nude base looks very natural against the skin tone. If you’ve been having a hard time finding the right hue for a complexion, browse the LDS Cover Colors Collection. It features enchanting blush pinks, beautiful beiges, shimmery shades, and creamy whites for every occasion. Each gel polish is 9-free, odorless, and safe for natural nails.

Cat Eye Christmas Nails

We have an extensive selection of cat eye polishes in so many colors! No other brand comes close. Once you pick the perfect shade, it’s mesmerizing to alter the way it looks with a magnet. In seconds, you can create aura, velvet, floral, and striped nails. An intrepid nail pro could do a Santa hat nail design with a magnet alone!

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A Dinosaur, A Unicorn, and Santa Hat Nails

There’s no limit to how creative you get with Santa Nail art. How did this artist come up with the idea to add a dinosaur and a unicorn? We have no idea! All we know is that we have the glitter polish to make the magic happen on your nails, too. 

Candy Cane Nails and Santa Hat Accents

While you’ve got the red and white polish handy, make your French tips extra sweet with candy cane stripes. Other nails have snowflakes and gift ribbons. Although this may be a minimalist manicure, it’s not skimping on the festive vibes.

Chrome Santa Nails

Get the shiniest chrome nails you’ve ever seen when you use Chrome Base polish underneath the powder. It creates a sleek surface for a flawless finish that lasts and lasts.

For this Santa nail design, start with the neutral base, followed by the chrome base gel. Following, add the chrome powder for the body of the hat. (It’s easier if you mask off the lower half of the nail with tape to keep it clean). Then add the brim and Santa’s beard, followed by his nose and eyes.

Gemstones and Santa Hat Nails

Here’s a straightforward design that doesn’t take long to make. Most of the nails are a solid color with a single snowflake or starburst featuring a rhinestone in the middle.

Snowmen and Santa Caps

A creative artist here turned the white tips into fresh snowfall hosting snowmen. When you’ve got a lot of little details in different colors, and you don’t want to spend money on polish shades you’ll rarely use, there’s a straightforward solution: line art gel. Each bottle has a precision brush so that you don’t need to lay down extra cash on tools, either.

LDS Line Art Gel

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Santa Gnome Nails with Sugar Sparkles

While red and green are traditional Christmas colors, pink is a convenient choice that goes with so many more outfits. Then you can wear Santa elves or gnomes and other holiday symbols and still match everything.

Moreover, there’s no need to splurge on extensions when you can build out your natural nails with poly gel. It’s like acrylic, only more convenient. It’s odorless and ready to use out of the tube.

Lavis Poly Extension Gel

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Conclusion

We wish you a happy and healthy holiday season! Have fun with Santa hat nails and all the seasonal nail art you want to explore!

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