The One Where I Caved and Did a Valentine's Day Manicure
9:00:00 AMGood Morning, Polished World! And Happy Valentine's Day to all my lovely followers. Yes, the past two posts I said I wasn't going to post today or have any themed nail art this year, but here I am. You can thank my coworkers who peer pressured me into doing some festive nails. I'm kind of glad I did because I really liked this design.
Earlier this week I was updating Instagram (shocking) when I stumbled across this design by Nail_Art_By_Tal. As you know, a few posts back I shared a french tip snowflake design which I was completely in love with, so this was no shocker that I fell in love with this one as well. I had to re-create it. It's simple, festive, but not over the top for the day.
Let's take a look!
Colors Used:
- ORLY - Mirrorball
- Acrylics
ORLY Mirrorball, one of the best holographic polishes in my collection. I have about 4 back up bottles of this beauty. I haven't ever used it for a glitter gradient before, but now that I see how well it works, I'm going to! I debated on using Mega X by ILNP for this manicure, but I wanted that extra glitter that Mirroball has with the little hex pieces.
When the gradient was dried, I went through with a small dotting tool and added the hearts and the little dots. I wanted to do the little stars that Tal had, but I never in all my years of blogging have figured out how to do those freehanded. So, instead of the stars, I decided to add the little line on the hearts to make them pop a little. I love them, but think Tal did a better job.
What do you think? Fan of the manicure? Happy I did something for Valentine's Day?
Until next time, <3.
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