In collaboration with..

Pretty Quirky

Valentine's Day.

Welcome back! Today I am coming back for my first collaboration post with Pretty Quirky of this year. And this time we have decided to do Valentine's Day, this being because the holiday is fast approaching! And guess what!? Sophie decided she wanted her nails like mummies too.. so I had to paint hers as well whilst I was painting this design! Little madam! You can see her modelling her nails on the photo to the right hand side! Also, I will warn you now, I took a lot of photo's on this design, and so it will be a pic heavy post. And it is the first design I am back with my natural nails, so I will also warn you now they are short and snapped, the cuticles are dry and under deep moisturising therapy over the next few weeks - but I thought I would be a strong soldier and show off my nubbins.

Firstly I would like to say how amazing Morven's design was, but to see this you will have to follow this link here. I absolutely loved the way it looked! And now I will get onto my design. I didn't use any hard method's in order to create this design, just my base coat, three polishes and a topcoat - I painted my designs with one of my nail art brushes. I didn't plan this manicure at all, I knew I was going to be doing valentine's day and so I went to my nail supplies and picked out three colours. These are as follows, Sally Hansen Fushia Bling Bling(Pink), China Glaze White on White(White) and Gel Pro Poppy Red (Red). I topped everything with a nice coat of Seche Vite.

Let us begin with my thumb nail. I didn't really have any kind of inspiration for this, I knew I wanted to do some lettering within my design and it kind of just fit considering my thumb was the largest surface I had. Now that it is complete it reminds me of the 'Love Hearts' sweets - who remembers these from being a kid? I know that especially in this photo you will see that my skin surrounding my thumb nail is in special need of tender loving care. It is because of this that I am using my Body Shop Hemp Hand Oil around 6 times a day. I am hoping you will be able to see a massive difference in the weeks to come. I have also been filming my nail care routine and I will be filming 6 weeks of nail regrowth videos - which will be posted here and on Youtube in time. I am going to be filming it all and then posting at a later date I feel.

Throughout the other nails I stuck to the love heart design for most of it, which I know is typical for Valentine's Day. I did small hearts on my pointer finger because I have always loved the way this looks. I did toy with dry marbling it in there, but I thought against it, because it was so fiddly with my tiny little nail - perhaps we can keep this idea on standby for a later date?! Moving onto my middle nail, now I look at it I am not exactly over the moon with how it came out, but it was meant to appear like hearts were in a vertical line, although I am unsure if I did this in the right way. I am now thinking it would have looked better with smaller hearts.

My ring finger was a reverse idea from my thumb, which was white with red accenting, and so I thought an empty heart was fitting because I liked that area of my thumb nail the best. And lastly was my Pinkie. I wanted something which wasn't heart related but at the same time still wanted it to stick within the cute aspect of Valentine's Day, and so I opted for some simple vertical lines.

So after that there isn't really much else to say on this design. I am hoping you are all well and having a good week. Let me know what you thought of this look by popping by into the comments and I will see you all soon!