Conversation Hearts Nails

Happy Valentine's Day! I'm a sappy romantic so I love the holiday. I love celebrating love; not just romantic love. I bought a gift for my bestie, too, because I love her to bits. 

For my Valentine's Day nails, I thought I'd recreate the most iconic V-Day candy. Conversation hearts! I can't be the only person who thinks that they're disgusting, though, right?

Just a Quickie: Glittery Heart Cutouts

Products Used:

Cult Nails Falling Hard

Anise Cosmic Kiss

heart nail vinyls

Negative Space Half-Moons

It's getting closer and closer to Valentine's Day so the nail art world is flooded with Valentine themed nail art. AND I LOVE IT! I love holiday nail art and I'm not ashamed. So, of course I'm throwing some designs of my own into the mix. 

Just a Quickie: Teal Valentine's Day Nails

Silver: Sally Hansen Celeb City

Teal: Julep Amy

Stamping: Sally Hansen Black Heart/Pueen68

Glitter: Hard Candy Bachelor Party

Valentine's Day Chevrons

We are less than a week away from Valentine's Day! I know some people hate the holiday or think that it's stupid. I love it, and I love festive nail art. Valentine's Day is another excuse for me to do some fun holiday designs! Today's design was inspired by my newest Julep glitter, Hartleigh.

V-Day #7

Today's Valentine's Day design is another non-traditional color combination for the holiday. I wanted to create something for those girls who don't necessarily love pink or red all that much. I love the way this design turned out and I adore the colors I used!

V-Day #6

I have fallen a bit behind on my Valentine's Day nail art. I wanted to post a design every day until the 14th but I'm just getting over being sick for almost 2 weeks now. I will definitely (hopefully) have a design every day for the next three days, though. I've already planned them and everything!

For today's (and tomorrow's, for that matter) design, I wanted to use less "traditional" colors for Valentine's Day. 

V-Day #5

Sometimes, ladies, we're busy. I know it and you know it. And, sometimes, no matter how much we love having pretty pretty nails, we are too busy to sit down and do fancy-schmancy nail art. And, sometimes, those too-busy days happen on special occasions; say, for instance, Valentine's Day. So, if you find yourself super busy and don't have much time to spend on your nails this V-Day, how about a fun glitter manicure?

I was perusing Ulta yesterday and found OPI Minni Style in the clearance section. I snatched it up without a second thought and decided to do a simple glittercure with it.

V-Day #4

It's been a very emotional and stressful week for me and, apparently, that makes my nails very brittle. I kept getting tiny little chips in my nails all week. Then, I had THREE bad breaks in one day! Ugh. Well, I only had one on my left hand (the one you guys see) and it wasn't terrible. It was just enough that I had to trim all of my nails down. The other two, on my right hand were terrible. Lame!

Anywho...

Well known fact : I love polka dots. So, when the overwhelming urge to do polka dot nails came over me, I contemplated just doing them in pink and red and calling that a V-Day mani. I convinced myself that I could make a fun twist on polka dots for Valentine's Day and I think I did just that!

V-Day #3 - Just a Quickie

Colors Used:

Wet n Wild Lavender Creme (pink base)

Pure Ice Iced Merlot (Magenta hearts)

OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons (nude hearts)

Wet n Wild Disturbia (purple hearts)

Julep Audrey (frosty pink topper)

V-Day #2

I love Valentine's Day so much! I'm a hopeless romantic; you know the type. I love getting flowers, leaving cheesy notes for hubby, surprising him with gifts here and there, getting surprises... That's why Valentine's Day is probably my second-most favorite holiday. All of the sappy things I love to do that usually make people scrunch their faces in disgust (or maybe jealousy, ha ha) are perfectly acceptable on V-Day! That's why I'm doing nothing but Valentine's Day nails until the 14th!

Today's design is a little more on the simpler side...

V-day simplicity

I could not, for the life of me, decide what I wanted to do for my actual Valentine's Day manicure. I made another attempt at the water spotted look, but that was not happening. Out of sheer frustration, I decided to do something simple. Very very very simple.

The half moon is Maybelline Born With It and the tips are Wet n Wild Lavender Creme. Initially, that was it. I thought it needed a little something so why not a bit of bling from Sally Hansen Celeb City. This manicure matched my V-day outfit perfectly, too, so that's a nice bonus. :)

More hearts

My original plan was to do an Alice in Wonderland themed manicure because we were going to watch that and Peter Pan last night. Well, Trisha couldn't make it so we didn't want to watch them without her. Instead, Heather, hubby, and I played a board game and watched something else. Of course, I also did Heather's nails.

Heather knew exactly what she wanted. I just delivered the goods, ha ha!

We used Cover Girl Pink-finity (Heather's new favorite, haha) on every nail other than her ring finger. There, we used Wet n Wild Black creme. For the hearts we used Pink-finity again and Wet n Wild Candy-licious. In typical Heather fashion, it's simple and girly. :)

Well, hubby wanted me to try a water spotted manicure. I tried. It's a really cool effect, when it works. I did one hand. I had one successful nail. I photographed only that nail. 

I started with a gradient of Sally Hansen Silver Sweep, Wet n Wild Candy-licious, and Wet n Wild Lavender Creme. For the water spotting, I used OPI Danke-Shiny Red. I love this look. I'm definitely going to need to practice this technique. Anyway, I took this picture, scrapped the entire manicure, and started over with something else. 

I stuck with Danke-Shiny Red and paired it with Sally Hansen Celeb City. Do these colors look fantastic together, or what? I really love this. It, for some reason, makes me think of Minnie Mouse. <3

Purple Hearts

My mother-in-law asked me to come over and do her nails today. Her favorite color is purple so I pretty much knew that we'd be doing a purple manicure. I was right. She wanted purple and hearts.

The base is OPI Planks a Lot. The hearts are from BM-202 and are stamped in OPI Purple With a Purpose and OPI It's My Year. Over that, there's a coat of Nubar 2010 for a little sparkle. I think there is definitely enough purple here to satisfy any purple fiend. :)

I thought it would be fun to do a matching manicure on myself. I didn't want quite as much purple, though. Instead, I started with a base of OPI Alpine Snow.

Other than the white, it's exactly the same. Purple With a Purpose and It's My Year for the hearts and a coat of Nubar 2010. I love it!

You will have to excuse my blue fingers. Time Traveler really did a number on me. For being such a dream to apply and wear, it was a nightmare to remove. :( 

I'm really excited for tomorrow's manicure. I can't wait for you guys to see what I have planned! Good night!

Valentine's Day water marble

I was talking to my sister-in-law yesterday and mentioned that I didn't know what I wanted to do with my nails. She suggested hearts. I thought that was a great idea, with Valentine's Day being right around the corner. So, I figured a pink water marble with a few hearts would be cute. I started and things went horribly wrong. I might be exaggerating a bit but they definitely could have gone better. I just kept going, though, and figured I could use the hearts and a few polka dots to cover some of the ugly parts.

I started with a base of Maybelline Born With It. The colors I marbled are Essie Wicked, OPI Alpine Snow, Wet n Wild Lavender Creme, and Wet n Wild Candy-licious.

They aren't terrible but they are far far FAR from perfect. I don't get it. My first water marble, around Christmas, came out great. Yet, the last few times I've tried, it's been a frustrating mess. Oh well. They'll do for a bit.

Pretty pink

The other day, I was looking through my stash and noticed that it was severely lacking in pink polishes. Well, that was a problem since I wanted to start trying out some Valentine's Day manicures. So, hubby bought me three! He's the best. I've been trying out different manicures over the last few days. The last two were such disasters that I refused to photograph them. After such failures, I decided that I wanted to wear something simple and easy. 

Some Wet n Wild Pink Creme and then a dip of the ring finger into loose glitter and voila! Pretty pink manicure. I love the glitter! It's part of a pack of glitter/flocking powders that I bought at a craft store for $15. Hubby picked out this glitter for my mani.

It's a pretty, light pink glitter mixed with a clear, iridescent glitter. The only thing is that this glitter swallowed my top coat like crazy. I used three coats of Seche Vite and still couldn't get a smooth finish. Oh well. I love it anyway!