Super Cute Valentine's Mani

Pink Studded Nails

Happy Valentine's Day!!

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I picked up this beauty yesterday:

Milani's Jewel FX - Hot Pink.  I'll be applying it this week and will post photos.

Have a great weekend!

Wedding Nails

I'm going to a wedding tomorrow and the colors are red & black.  I did this mani for the occasion:

The base is 3 coats of China Glaze Ruby Pumps and the tips are China Glaze Lubu Heels.  My girl Maggie helps with this mani.  :)

My toes are just Ruby Pumps and here's the smokin' hot shoes I'll be wearing:

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More Marbling

Starting with tips on Q-Tips, I used 5 clear and 5 beige tips.  I applied one coat of Finger Paints Paper Mache as the base to all of them.

Using room temperature water, I used China Glaze In the Lime Light, Wet N Wild black and the Finger Paints Paper Mache and got these results:

  

Next, China Glaze Japanese Koi with Wet N Wild black and the Finger Paints Paper Mache:

Here's Sally Hansen Cocktail Party, Nailtiques Moscow and Finger Paints Paper Mache: 

Of all my experiments, I think that the reds turned out the best and followed by that would be the orange & white.  There were more, but not all of them turned out worth posting.  ;)

Marbling?

Just goofin' around today and here's some shots of what I came up with.  I would put what colors I used, but already put them away and can't remember...  It sucks to get old.

The second from the right in the bottom picture is my favorite of the batch.  That one is Finger Paints Pink Imagination as a base (2 coats) and then marbling of China Glaze Vertical Rush and Black Diamond. I'm hoping to duplicate this one on my next mani.  Keep your fingers crossed!

In the top photo, the first one turned out pretty cool as well.  It's a base of Pure Ice Pussy Cat.  Sinful Colors See You Soon and Finger Paints Easel Come, Easel Go and one other (sorry...can't remember - maybe the Black Diamond??) as the marbling.  It's really all trial and error.

The Blues

I blogged about getting Zoya's Ibiza in the mail the other day and how fantastic it is.  And I can never leave well enough alone.  So I did this:

China Glaze's Lorelei's Tiara on top.  <3 it!

Sally Beauty Haul

Today I went to Sally Beauty and got all of this:

(L-R: 2 pair earrings, Terrific Tips Clear Vision nail tips, China Glaze Love Marilyn, Orly Dazzle, It's So Easy Rhinestone Picker Uperr, Beauty Secrets nail glue, Art Club nail art in red hologram hearts and clay art ivory flowers)

Earrings?  Yeah.  They were shiny and right there at the check-out.  Plus I need some new sparklies for when my hubby and I go on vacation in a few weeks.

The nail tips intrigue me.  The ones I normally use seem to have changed their shape and sizing and I'm trying these to see how they work.

Red glitter nail polish.  Can you ever have enough?  NO, I say!  And it's different than the red glitter polish I got like 2 days ago...  :-O

Silver polish.  Goes with everything.

Rhinestone Picker Uperr: hoping it'll help me not drop the little bastards all over my floor! 

Glue.  This is new to me also.  We'll see how it goes.

And nail art.  I haven't used either of these and I'm particularly interested to see how the clay flowers work.  It could be fantastic or I could mangle them.  Check back for photos of my adventures.

Cool?

I looked through these photos Nail Art and was not impressed.

I've seen far better on my own nails as well as the nails of the bloggers that I follow. 

What do you think, dear blog followers?

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