I Lava You

Throwing it back to Valentine's Day, I painted some punny Valentine's nails.

The base for these was Sure Thing from Revlon. I then painted on all of the details using acrylic paint.

Some close ups.

So several of these were inspired by Society 6 artists work, which if you haven't checked Society 6 out yet, do it. There's tons of cool art (which comes on everything from t-shirts to rugs) over there. Super cool.

This ends today's post.

See ya soon!

Vintage Valentine's Day Inspired Nails

I don't know if you guys remember, but several months ago, I painted a vintage inspired nail design. I really liked the design, and I got great feedback on it. So, for a Valentine's manicure, I decided to do a design very similar.

The lightest pink is Sweet as Candy from Essence. On the middle finger is Pink Lingerie from Revlon Top Speed. Finally, the darkest pink is Presto Pink from Sally Hansen Insta-Dri. The hearts, stripes and roses are all acrylic.

The hearts were super easy to make. You just start with two dots (make these with a toothpick). Then, drag down the dots to a point and you have a heart! 

For the roses, you pretty much just keep make sort of squiggly comma shapes.

I hope you guys enjoy this! 

Love is...

Hey guys! I've got a couple quick Valentine's Day designs to show you.

So, as you can see, they're a couple of famous love quotes. First, Love is Sweet, Love is Kind, and then, quoted from the famous Beatles' song, Love is All You Need. I started with a base of White On from Sally Hansen. Then I sponged on Watermelon from Essie to create a gradient. Finally, using black India ink and a calligraphy pen, I wrote on the words. 

I hope you guys enjoy! And I've got another post for you tomorrow, that's sort of inspired by the... um... un-dead.