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!!!

My Funky Valentine/Nail design

 A really funky and different but cute Valentine's Day nail design. First, I started with a regular french manicured white tip. I used red polish)fire engine red) to draw a diagonal red line across half the nail, then filled in that corner with the red polish, as shown in the picture below.

After the red was in place, I used some regular black polish (ArtClub-black) and first I traced the edge of the red with the black. Then I did three similar diagonal black lines going up the left side of the nail, spaced apart.

Once the black lines were on the nail, I used white polish(ArtClub-white) and followed each black line with a white line, as shown in the picture below.

Once the lines were on, I painted the middle part of the french tip pink. So we have the red corner with a black line and right on the other side of the black line is where I used the light pink polish (Lilac Silk). I only used the pink between the black lines in the middle, as shown in the picture below and to the left. After the pink, I decided to add silver lines where I had already added the white and black. I used a silver glitter polish(ArtClub-silver glitter) and made lines following the diagonal lines on the left side of the nail. I put the silver lines right next to the white line. This is shown in the picture below and to the right.

Then I went in with my gold glitter polish (Also ArtClub) and only did two lines on the opposite side of the silver. So we have black line, white line, silver then gold for the first two line segments. You could put gold on the very end of the the nail, I just didn't. There was little room and I like the way it looks like this too.

After all the lines and colors were slightly dry, I used the red Migi pen and drew on a small heart in the open area. The heart is very simple but I think it really adds the Valentine's Day element. It has all the "romantic" colors and one of the symbols, so I think this is a really great and funky design for Valentine's Day. Hope you enjoy! Feel free to leave any questions or comments and please let me know if you try this. i would love to see different styles and interpretations.