Valentine's Day Nail Ideas

Hey loves! I know it's super late, but I wanted to post this anyway, since I clearly didn't get around to posting it prior to the holiday.

I think that Valentine's Day nails are so much fun. It's an excuse to HAVE to wear pink nail polish! These are my 4 ideas on what to do for the holiday.

1. Two Color Pattern.
     This one is the simplest "design" that you can do. It is barely even a design at all! No nail tools are required, and you don't need any "talent" to do these. All you do, is pick two colors of polish. Then, pick two nails to paint color #1, and paint the other three with color #2! And THAT'S IT!!

Here, I used Nicole By OPI in I Do De-Claire and Back in my Gloria Days, both from the Modern Family collection.

2. Mix & Match.

     These nails will be so different from person to person. I went through and chose a red and a pink, silver or gold, a textured pink, a white, and then strippers in colors corresponding with my previous choices. You can see what I did in the picture, but I really liked the idea of using the textured polish on only one nail, and different designs on three, and making the one nail just a simple, solid color. Below, I have two hands, with the same design, I just swapped the colors a little.

Below are the polishes used for this hand.

And for the other hand...

Again, the polishes used for this hand are pictured below.

3. Pictures/Icons.

     These are the nails that everyone loves when I do. I pick popular icons and symbols for the holiday or occasion, and paint those on the nails! For this look, I used a kiss print, a rose, a candy heart, a love letter and a heart with an arrow going through it.

4. The Spring-y Valentine.

     Finally, for those who are in warmer climates, some of them think of Valentine's Day as when the weather gets warmer. This design was inspired by Nicole from http://youngwildandpolished.blogspot.com. She is always doing things similar, and they look so nice! I love the flowers, and how it looks a little like spring, but also feels "love-y," if that makes sense.

And that's it! These can use so many different colors, and could be used for different holidays, like Christmas, just by swapping out the pink for green! They are pretty easy, and they look so cute.

So, which one was your favorite design?

Thanks for reading <3

China Glaze Crinkled Chrome Collection Review

Hey guys! I was originally going to do a mini review, and choose just 3 polishes to purchase and review. Since they are all basically the same, but with different colors, I figured that would suffice. Then, I tried one of them...

From left to right: Wrinkling the Sheets, Don't Be Foiled, Iron Out the Details, Crush Crush Baby, I'm a Chromantic, and Aluminate.

These polishes are amazing! I purchased Aluminate first, and fell IN LOVE with it! These polishes apply so smoothly. They are fairly thin after the first coat, but once a second coat is on there, they are perfect. For them to dry quickly and properly, thin coats are needed.

The look they were going for was, obviously, to look like chrome, but crinkled. I saw the effect immediately. It literally looked like someone took a piece of aluminum foil, crumbled it, and then opened it back up...if that makes sense.

They stay on well, and do not chip very easily, that I noticed. There is no top coat used on these, or the effect goes away. I did not try a top coat on it, but I do not think it would work, because this is a textured polish.

There are small beads in the polish, as well as bar glitter, but it's not glitter...it's just awesome. I think that if they only had one of these in the polish, the effect would be harder to see.

The collection has 6 colors all together.

This is Aluminate, a silver chrome.

This one is I'm a Chromantic, a pinkish color.

This is Crush, Crush, Baby, a light purple color.

Above is Iron Out the Details, a sort of blue-gray color.

This is a teal-ish blue, called Don't Be Foiled.

Finally, is Wrinkling the Sheets, which is sort of a green.

As far as price goes, these polishes were pricey...at Ulta. I purchased three of them there, and the other three at Sally's Beauty Supply. I did not find them anywhere else, but they are worth the price if you have to buy them at Ulta!

My favorites were Aluminate, I'm a Chromantic, and Crush, Crush, Baby. The last three, the two blues and the green, were very similar. I wore Iron Out the Details on one hand, and Don't Be Foiled on the other. Unless they were next to each other, it was almost impossible to tell the difference.

I definitely recommend them to anyone who likes textured polishes.

Thanks for reading! <3

*All opinions are my own and truthful. I purchased all polishes with my own money.

Olympic Nail Art

Hello! For this look, I created five designs, all revolving around this year's Winter Olympics! My base, and any white details, was all the same color.

This is Shany nail polish in 09.

Thumb: The American flag was my design for this nail. I created it using nail art striper polishes and a dotting tool.

This is Kiss Nail Art Pearl Blue and Salon Perfect Laser Beam.

Index: A gold medal, created with nail stripers, and a dotting tool.

This is Salon Perfect Laser Beam, Kiss Nail Art White, Kiss Nail Art Pearl Blue, and Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in Golden-I.

Middle: The Olympic Rings, created using a dotting tool.

This is Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Blue It, Shany 10, China Glaze Salsa, Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow, and Pure Ice Wild Thing.

Ring: Sparkle

This is China Glaze Fairy Dust.

Pinky: The Russian Flag

This is China Glaze Isle See You Later and China Glaze Salsa.

Thanks for reading! <3

Super Bowl XLVIII Nails!

I had no strong feelings on who won, so I did nails for both. This is a little late, because I did them the day of the Super Bowl.

For the Broncos nails (left side), I used the Revlon's Urban (blue) and Ulta's Sun of a Gun (orange).

On the Seahawks nails (right), I used Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in Blue It (blue) and Pure Ice in Wild Thing (green).

The football was with Essie's Little Brown Dress.

Thanks for reading <3

*These ideas were my own, aside from the football, which I have seen everywhere. I also attempted to replicate the logos, but they are not exact copies, and were not intended to be copyrighted. I never intended to copy anyone without giving credit, or illegally use any logos.