Feisty Feline

Feisty Feline Nail Art

Today's nails were inspired by a manicure shown on Pretty Little Liars. I mixed it up a bit by doing a red half moon on each nail!

For this design I used the following:

- Beauty Secrets Base Coat

- Joe Fresh nail polish in Caramel

- China Glaze nail polish in Dress me Up and Foie Gras

- Finger Paints nail polish in Curator's Crimson

- Beauty Secrets Top Coat

Once your base coat is dry paint on a coat od red polish (depending on the brand and formula you may need more than one coat). When the red polish is completely dry place page reinforcements on each nail to create the shape of the half moon mani. Paint on two coats of your tan polish and remove the page reinforcements. Lastly use the back of a makeup brush or a dotting tool to create the leopard print, complete it by outlining in the darker brown polish. 

Don't forget to protect your design with a top coat.

Hope you like this cute design. Check out my facebook page, keep sending your requests to nailsbyvalentine@gmail.com!

-Valentine

Rainbow Tree of Life

Welcome back!! Today’s nails we’re inspired by the wonderful Robin Moses, I saw one of her designs when I was searching for a good tree design. This is my first attempt at this design but I’m sure I will try again…

For this design I used:

-Beauty Secrets Base Coat

-Orly nail polish in Platinum and Shine on Crazy Diamond

-Acrylic paint in white, black, gold, blue, teal, lime green, yellow, orange, red, pink and purple

-Beauty Secrets Top Coat

Tip 1: Use a very thin brush for the limbs on the tree, I used a thinker brush and my trees didn’t come out exactly how I wanted them to.

Tip 2: For the leaves dab your brush over and over on to your nails in a stippling motion this is the easiest way I know of to create tiny leaves.

Hope you enjoyed this design.  Keep sending your requests to nailsbyvalentine@gmail.com; remember to check out my Facebook page.

Enjoy

-Valentine

Feelin' Hippy!

With spring in full swing and summer just around the corner I decided to do some Hippy-ish Spring flowers on my nails. All you need for this design is a few of your favorite nail polishes and a dotting tool or makeup brush.

For this design I used:

-Beauty Secrets Base Coat

-Orly nail polish in Spark

-China Glaze nail polish in Rich & Famous, Spontaneous, Tuned up Turquoise, and Sun Worshiper

- Beauty Secrets Top Coat

I used the same kind of technique for the flowers here that I used in my ‘Lovely Layers’ blog. The most important thing to remember about layering polishes is that you want to make sure the previous coat is dry before proceeding otherwise you could end up with a BIG mess across your nails.

Hope you enjoyed this design.  Keep sending your requests to nailsbyvalentine@gmail.com; remember to check out my Facebook page.

Enjoy

-Valentine

Ahoy!

Nautical Nails

OMG!! It’s been a while since my last post, almost 3 whole weeks!! So for today’s nails I decided to post one of my favorite designs. These were inspired by a YouTube video I saw and of course a snazzy sailors outfit!

For these nails I used the following:

- Beauty Secrets Base Coat

- China Glaze nail polish in ‘White on White’

- Nichole by OPI in ‘A new kind of blue”

- Kiss nail art paint in ‘Red’

- Beauty Secrets Top Coat

I chose to accent these sassy nails with some extra embellishments. Use nail studs or rhinestones for the gold/yellow buttons. Or if you don’t have this at home try using a yellow or gold polish and applying it with a toothpick or a small dotting tool.

Hope you enjoyed these nails. Keep sending me your requests (nailsbyvalentine@gmail.com) Don’t forget to check out my Facebook page!

P.S. I have a bunch more posts lined up for the next month so hopefully there won’t be much of a wait in between pictures. Sorry for the delay.

-Valentine