Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!  No matter if you celebrate with the one you love, or it's just another day, have a great one no matter what you do.  To me, it's just another day with the one I love lol.  We are past our celebrating days and it will be a quiet day at home just like any other day.  The past few years, we've also given the same VDay cards to each other as we don't see the sense of spending money unnecessarily or going out to eat when we can enjoy what we have at home.  That might be a downer to some, but that's how it is after 33 years.

Started with a base of skittles:  Bluebird Making Pour Decisions (thumb), KBShimmer Before & Aster (index), Zoya Lena (middle), Morgan Taylor Powers of Persuassion (ring) and Pahlish The Archer (pinky), no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

MdU VP SV 3

Born Pretty Valentine's Day

Stamped using images from Beauty Big Bang XL-047 (thumb), MdU VP SV 3 (pinky),  PY-J033 (shrunken on middle and ring), Born Pretty Valentine's Day-L001 (index) and random hearts throughout using Nicole Diary-S23, using Painted Polish Blanc Slate and Painted Polish Stamped in Periwinkle.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

 Have a wonderful Valentine's no matter what you do!

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Hearts!

This was an experimental velvet mani and while it's not my best work, I don't think it was my worst.  It gave me good feel for how to do a tinted base on top of a velvet magnetic mani anyway and I will take what I learned this time and apply it to the next one, and hopefully it will turn out better!  Here's what I came up with!  

Started with a base of Polished for Days white soft focus, then added three coats of Cirque Chemistry, magnitized with a 30 lb. magnet.

I knew I was going to put a tint over it as I don't have a red magnetic polish, so topped with Essie Blush Stroke, which wasn't as red as I was looking for, but I at least was happy that you could see the velvet affect underneath.

Topped with a coat of Cirque Lucky Jelly, which was the red I was going for, or at least red enough, yet you could still see magnetic affect underneath.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using image from Nicole Diary-S23 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.  This was a good image to use as you seen the Valentine themed image, yet seen the velvet nails underneath.

Nicole Diary S-23.

Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

 If I was to do this again, I would try it with a darker base as it took a lot of coats for the silver polish to be opaque enough, so likely a black maybe?  Or look for a more opaque silver magnetic as I have all kinds of ideas with topping jelly polishes over a velvet nail.

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L O V E

This was a last minute Valentine mani; I had been wearing some really bright and bold colours and had a business meeting the next day, so wanted to do neutral nails so went with this pretty base and last minute, decided to add some muted stamping Valentine stamping and this is how it turned out.  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of Pahlish Down Bad, two coats, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

MoYou London Love Is... Collection-09

Stamped hearts on all nails except accent using Nicole Diary-S23 using MdU 94, then stamped the thumb accent nail using MoYou London Love Is... Collection-09.

Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

 Thanks for looking!