Crazy Hearts/Valentine's Day Design

 A funky Valentine's Day design with all the "romantic" colors. I am running out of Valentine's Day designs, so I am not sure how many more I will have before the day is upon us but I am working on a few designs that are not holiday or special occasion. Anyway, enough of my rambling and onto the tutorial.

 I didn't take pictures in between putting on each stripe but that's what I did. I picked four Valentine's type colors. I chose China Glaze-Bing Cherry(dark & shimmery red color), Sally Hansen- Xtreme Wear-Fuchsia Power(a bright pink), China Glaze- White Out(a bright white), and China Glaze- I Wanna Lei Ya(a more subtle and soft pink). I did a diagonal stripe of each color along the nail. I made them as even as I could but they aren't even at all, lol.

 After the colors were all applied, I used Kiss nail paint (Black) and separated each color with a thin black line.

 I used the same colors and created hearts. Starting with the bottom of the nail, what would be the cuticle area, I made a heart in the lighter pink area. I decided to use the same colors but go the other way with the pattern. So for the base colors, I went from cuticle to tip with light pink, then white, then bright pink, then dark red. For the hearts, I did the opposite. So the first heart was dark red, as shown in the pic. I titled the heart toward the left a bit.

 The next heart was the bright pink. I went the opposite way with this heart and tilted it to the right

 Then the white heart...which I then went opposite of the one before it again and made it tilt left, like the first heart did.

 And finally the softer pink on the dark red, which tilted to the right.

 This was the finally product. This was a design that I was creating it as I painted but I was actually quite happy with it.

Not as even as I would like but sometimes it nice to see things aren't exactly perfect. I don't know... what does everyone else think? Is anyone painting their nails special for Valentine's Day? I know I will but I still haven't settled on a design! Well thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and I encourage anyone to give this a try. Very easy and very cute!!!

Dotted Hearts for Valentine's Day Nails

Dotted Hearts for Valentine's Day Nails

Just a Bit Fruity

  I did a few fruit nails. Very simple designs. I think the cherries came out looking the best of the three. It almost looks like a stencil, and I did all 3 freehand.

 For the bananas, I started with the center banana. I drew the outline in black. Once the center one was in place I outlined two more bananas in black, one on each side of the center banana. Then, I drew a black line down the center of the top banana and the middle banana, to add depth. Once the black dried a little, I colored in the black outlines with yellow, making sure ot to cover my center black lines in the two bananas.

 The cherries were easy and came out nice. First, I did a small but complete circle in red toward the tip of the nail and toward the middle. Then I did an almost full circle in red next to the first red circle. Then I drew some green lines for the stems and made a little leaf and I was done. Very clean and cute.

The strawberry is a bit rough. I started with the black outline, but it was too thick of an outline. Instead of fixing it, I just continued. I filled in the outline with a red colored polish and then added little red oval shaped dots n top of the red, to simulate the seeds. hen I used green to do the green top. I think I could have done better with this but it wasn't too bad I guess. So that's it for the fruit for now. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed and please comment!

Rhinestoned Tips/Valentine's Day Design

 Another Valentine's Day design! I really didn't have a vision in mind when I started this, I just let it come to me...I guess, lol. I am almost hearted out with all the Valentine's Day designs but here it is anyway.

 First, I started with a red base and I used China Glaze- Bing Cherry for the base. I only had to do one coat, but I made sure it was a little thick of a coat.




Then I used China Glaze-White Out and did the white tip, as shown below.

 Once the white tips were dry, I used KISS nail paint-Bikini Pink and made a diagonal line from the corner of the white to the top of the red.

 The hearts are a bit rough. Definitely not the best but they work. I did the pink hearts in China Glaze- I Wanna Lei Ya.

 Once all the colors were mostly dry, I used light pink rhinestones for my pointer finger, middle finger and pinkie finger. I placed the rhinestones where the red and white areas meet, and spaced them apart just a little. For the ring finger and thumb, I used red rhinestones. On the ring finger and thumb, I also used 3 silver rhinestones and placed them around the heart on the nail.

 Here is a pic of my thumb. Not too bad, but not super great either. I am still learning, but this was fun to do.

Hope you enjoyed! Please feel free to comment or ask any questions. Thanks for reading!

Stripes, Hearts, and Rhinestones/Valentine's Day Nail Design

 I can't help but overindulge the romantic "holiday", since I think that pretty nails are romantic in themselves. I did another Valentine's Day design, using a few rhinestones and small heart decals. Sorry the pictures are not better quality but I hope you can still see it well. This is the design to did to my own nails tonight.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               First, I started with a regular white, french manicure. I used China Glaze-White Out, as shown in the picture below. After the white was applied, I used Kiss Nail Art paint-Bikini Pink, and made a stripe along the white part, as shown in the picture below and to the right.                                                                                                                              

 After the pink, i used Art Club's Red Striper lacquer and made a red line across the pink but curved outward toward the edge of the nail, which is pictured above and below to the left. After the red, I used a lighter pink color(blank bottle-Lilac Silk) and did the same that I did with the red but on the opposite side, going inward toward the nail. It is a little harder to see because the pink is lighter and my poor quality photos but you can sort of see those lines in the picture below and to the right.

 Again, it is hard to see but once my paints were mostly dry, I used a pink heart-shaped rhinestone and added that at the very edge of where all three colors meet, in the middle of the colors. Next to the heart but a little lower, I added another heart but the second one is a purple decal heart, as shown in the picture below.(again, i know these pictures are not so great)

 On the ring finger and thumb, I added 2 silver rhinestones, 2 red, then two pink in a small curved lie towards the cuticle area. After the last few pieces, I added two layers of top coat, just in case and Ta-Da! This was not very time-consuming at all and a very nice, stylish choices for Valentine's Day. Hope you like it and thanks for reading! Please comment or reply!

Heart Manicure

 I did this to my own nails last night. I did a dark red french tip with Mauve Frost by Wet & Wild. Then I drew a large heart on each nail. On the left hand, the hearts were off to the right side and on the right hand, the harts were off to the left.

 I used a white Migi nail pen for the heart and then put little dots going along the edge of the red. After all the paint was placed, I used silver rhinestones for my thumb and ring fingers, adding them to the to of the nail, opposite side of the heart. Then I used pink rhinestones and did th rest of my fingers the same way. I was really happy wit the way they came out, very cute!!

Funky Pink French Tip with Heart/Valetine's Day Nail Design

This is a very easy to do design and can be done very quickly and in many different color combinations, just use the colors you like best. I am still working on different designs for Valentine's Day, since it is coming up so I used Valentine's Day colors.I started with a regular french manicured tip. I think for many designs, it makes it easier having the french tip on there. It me a better idea of space or helps me get as close to the exact middle as possible. Anyway, I used my hot pink polish (Sally Hansen-Bikini Pink), and drew diagonal lines on each side of the nail that met in the middle and top of french tip. Then I filled in that area with the same pink color.The pictures above and below show the pink area.

Then I used my red polish(ArtClub-red) and created a heart in the area the pink surrounded. If you shape the pink right, the middle makes the perfect bottom of a heart when you fill it in. The pictures above and below show the red heart I placed in the middle of the pink.

I grabbed my Migi nail polish pen, white color, and placed small little dots all along the edge of the pink on each side of the heart. The pictures to the left show the little white dots. I think this is a very simplistic but adorable design. I was happy with the way it looked. It kind of looks plain but I didn't want to add anything and ruin the cute look. Hope you like it and give it a try. If you try it, please take pictures or feel free to leave comments!

Kiss Me-Hershey Kiss/Valentine's Day Nail Design

This was a design that  I decided to do pretty randomly. I didn't even have an exact plan, I just figured it out as I went, haha. My hubby and I were shopping recently and I passed a Valentine's Day section in the store that has a shirt with a Hershey's Kiss on it and I decided that might be a cute Valentine's Day nail design. Here is my interpretation of the shirt I saw.

First I started with an all pink base coat on the nail. I used my most common pink which is Lilac Silk. I did 2 coats to give it a rich pink color, because this pink is actually kind of light. Once the pink dried, I used a Migi nail pen with white polish and wrote the word KISS diagonally across the nail from the left side to the right. The picture below shows where I wrote it on the nail. It is definitely not my best work, looks kind of sloppy, but hey it was a first attempt!

 Now the decal I used for the Hershey's Kiss, I actually made it! I had seen a tip on a nail video awhile back that you can use your nail polish to make your own nail stickers/decals. You use a Ziploc plastic bag. I taped mine to a piece of cardstock, to keep it taut and stable. Once the bag was taped in place, I used my silver polish and created the Kiss, then used my white to add the tag and put some blue on the white to act as the lettering. You have to put the polish on the design pretty generously. After it dries, I left it to dry overnight, I used a nail, or tweezers, to very carefully peel it off the bag. You can do many different stickers this way. I have also done hearts and bows. It worked great and the result is the Kiss you see on the nail!

 I thought that it still looked plain after adding the Kiss, so I decided to add the word ME underneath KISS in red. I used a Migi pen again for this and wrote ME. Then I used the same red pen and created little red dots all around the design and words, all over the nail.

 A few different views of the nail.

 I also decided to add white dots all over to help compliment the red, since red and white were the colors used for the words. But honestly, once I added the white dots, I was disappointed. I think it looked better with only the red dots, the white may have been a step too far. I think both ways can be cute but it looks a little more cluttered than I wanted. Either way, the finished product is below. Great for Valentine's Day and I hope you enjoyed. Feel free to comment or show of your designs!