Valentine's Day Nails 2016

Hey everybody! So if you are like me, you love holiday themed nail designs. For Valentine’s Day this year I was going to use baby pink, but the polish I had was like 5 million years old and I’m like NOPE NEVER MIND. So… lol I picked a medium pink and decided to do a different design on each nail.

The polishes I used were Revlon’s Base + Top Coat, Sally Hansen’s Insta-Dri shade in “Presto Pink” (#15), Miracle Gel shade in “Wine Stock” (#480), and Formula X’s “Love Chemistry”. I also used a nail dotter for the designs and a nail gem thing from a nail art kit I have (I don’t remember what it’s called if you want to know search through blogposts sorz).

On my ring finger I did my accent nail with a gold glitter and the rest of my nails had the pink base color. To match the gold accent nail I had a nail art piece that was a gold heart, so I decided to put that on my thumb near the cuticle. As you can see, some pink polish got on the heart, but oh well lol. On my index and pinky fingers I did some small hearts in the dark red color. To do that I used a nail dotter and basically made two dots and connected them together to form a heart. If you don’t have a nail dotter you can always use a toothpick or a bobby pin. Lastly, on my middle finger I did a big heart in the <3 style, also using a nail dotter. I added a top coat and viola.

I hope you guys like this design and if you do make sure to follow my blog for more holiday themed things. I’m thinking of starting a series where I do designs for short nails because I need to start keeping mine shorter now that I’m attempting to learn a string instrument. P.s. I uploaded a video of me playing the ukulele and doing some terrible singing on my YouTube channel so it you want to look at that go for it. Bye :)

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