Mavala - Glasgow & Pink Rhinestone Valentine Heart #9

Hello everybody!

And Happy Monday! :-D I hope you all had a great weekend and are prepared for the week ahead. Today I want to shate with you another Valentines Day themed manicure. This is #9:

I started this manicure with MAVALA Glasgow, wich is a metallic pearly white sheer creme polish with a silvery finish. The application was easy due to the good formula of this polish. But the brush was a bit too small for a metallic polish. Hence a lot of vilible brushstrokes. I used two coats of Glasgow for these pictures. If you want this polish to be fully opaque, you would probably have to use 3-4 coats though. But I did not mind the VNL in this case.

As an accent I put on a heart of different coloured rhinestones on my ringfinger. I used rosé, baby pink, lilac and magenta stones for this heart. I then topped it all off with Seche Vite to seal the rhinestones in and to get rid of at least some of Glasgows brushstrokes.

I am happy with the way this simple manicure turned out. It is very easy to do and adds a little Valentines Day feeling to your nails. Perfect! :-D

How do you like this manicure? Is this something you'd consider trying?

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VALENTINES DAY MANI MINI SERIES.

You can find them here.

OPI - Pink It Through - Valentines Day Manicure #5

Hello Beauties!

For todays Valentines manicure I did a simple dotted french-style manicure.

I started off with two coats of OPI - Pink It Through. Pink It Through is a baby pink creme polish with a good formula. The first coat went on a bit streaky, but that leveled out nicely with the second one. It also dried pretty quick and to a glossy finish. One could wear this polish for Valentines on it's own, but as you might know by now, this is not my kind of colour.

So I picked up my dotting tool and made a line of polka dots on the tip of my nails. For this I used Mavala - London, wich is a bright red polish. For this design you have to try to make the dots as even as possible. I made them a bit smaller at the edges to create some depth. On my left hand this design looks pretty good, but I am still a little shaky when it comes to do details on my right hand. So as you can imagine it did not look all that well... :-(

 Nevertheless I put on some sparkle using china glaze - Fairy Dust on my ringfinger. Recently I am a huge fan of this polish. With all the iridescent microglitter it adds WOW to every manicure!

I really like how this turned out and will be trying something like this in the future.

How do you like this design for Valentines? Is this something you might wear?

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Mavala - Liverpool & Polkadots for Valentines Day (#1)

Hello everyone! 

As I said before I am planning to do a little Valentine-Design series from 1st to 14th of February and this is going to be number 1!

For todays Valentines Day Manicure (#1) I chose a simple one. I think it is amazing what you can get with so little. A few dots and some glitter and you have a great manicure.

I'll show you step by step wich polishes I used.

As my base colour I used MALAVA - Liverpool, wich is a light grey creme polish. It was opaque in two coats and very easy to apply.

Next I took a dotting tool to create red polkadots on my ringfinger and thumb. You can use any red you like. I used Maybelline New York - Forever Strong - Cherry Sin (501).

For this manicure I tried to make the dots even, but if you prefer you can do them irregular.

If you are happy with the way this looks you can apply a topcoat to seal it in, or you can put on some glitter like I did for some sparkle. I would recommend using a polish with microglitter, so your dots will not get covered, but if you like junky glitters better take them instead. Use whatever you like best!

First I only applied china glaze - Fairy Dust to my dotted nails (above) but then I decided to do it on all my fingers (below).

I was lucky to catch some sunlight to show you the beautiful sparkle this manicure has.

I am quite happy with the way this turned out. I think the combination of grey, red and some glitter is very pretty and totally wearable for Valentines Day!

How do you like this combo? 

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