Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day Eve Eve! Whether you have a date with a yummy pizza (like me) or one with a real human- I have some nails to go with it! So, here is my jumbled up, lots of writing, photo-tastic nail-aholic post all about Valentine's inspired nails...Whoo! *pops a party popper and kisses her pizza*. Hope you enjoy!

1) Number 1 is a marbled design which features many polishes, so I'll get on with it or this post will be changed to valentines day 2016:

• Barry M 'Gelly polish' in 'dragon'
• A generic white polish
• Rimmel London 'grey matter'
• Models Own 'grape juice' scented polish
• A generic black striper
• A generic clear topcoat

Ok, so this effect was created by;

1. Placing big gloops (love that word!) of polish on your nails and using a toothpick, pencil or dotting tool to gently swirl them into eachother, only do this a few times for each nail though- or the colours all mix and turn into one colour. 
2. On my ring finger I then used the striper (but you could use a dotting tool) to make a heart out of dots. If I did this design on my left hand I would have attempted to just draw the outline of a heart but I don't have a particularly steady left hand, so dots just had to do! 
3. Then, I just added a topcoat. This design would also look great with a white, black and red polish for a bit of a smarter/ more classy look. 
4. And that's it- a really easy but effective design!

*warning: this tutorial takes a while to dry because of the amount of polish you have to use, so make sure you have left enough time for them to dry!*

Next up are some really cute and girly sparkly nails which fade out from the bottom of your nail! The polishes used are:

• Bourjois Pairs in 'Rainbow Apparition' (apparition means ghost or ghost-like, so it's a really clever name seeing as there are fine glitters in every colour, along with a background pinkk shimmer)
• Technic in 'carnival' 
• Laval in 'glitter dazzle' 
• Loreal Paris in 'sequin explosion'
• a generic black striper.
• a generic clear topcoat.

Here is how you create the look:

1. Lightly paint your nails using the Bourjois Paris polish, making sure that you get most of the polish at the bottom of your nail, and then pressing even lighter as you get nearer the top.
2. Then with the Laval polish, dab on the big glitter chunks, at the bottom of your nail, which are on the brush. Don't swipe as the glitter is quite scarce,and you just end up with the clear polish instead of the silver glitter.
3. Next, with the technic polish paint up to half way (from the bottom) of your nail. 
4. The last glitter polish to add is the Loreal Paris one, just paint from the bottom of your nail to halfway up.
5. Penultimately (ooh, fancy word!) in the top left corner of each of your nails, get the black striper and pant a short, thick line down from the left. Then another one, joining the one before, from the right. This creates a small love heart. Aaaw- cute!
6. Now just add a topcoat to protect your design, and add even more of a sparkle!

Thankyou for reading. This post has been super looooong, but I hope it was worth it. Love you all, And-a-Topcoat. xxxxx (extra kisses because it's almost Valentine's Day)