Valentine’s Day mani!

Hellooooo. I realize it’s been a little while since I posted last, but I’ve been very busy. As such, this post will be pretty brief. I also didn’t really have the energy to take nice pictures, so please excuse the awful photo.

So here is my Valentine’s Day look. I know my fingers look red and terrible - this is partly due to my skin tone, which is just naturally pretty red, as well as the fact that I was previously wearing Essie’s Wicked... stain city! 

Anyway. The pink underneath is 2 coats of Essie Ballet Slippers and 2 coats of China Glaze Tropical Tease. Surprisingly it wasn’t too excruciating to pull off - I found out that putting a matte top coat beneath sheerer polishes makes them a little more opaque.

On top of this I put 1 coat of NOPI Love Your Life. Cute as that glitter is, digging the hearts out is just a mess! You almost never get them on your brush without trying. Most of the time, you have to scoop them out with your brush, and the awkward shape of the NOPI bottle just adds to the difficulty. However, I think it was worth it!

Y’all, there is SO much on my nails right now. I’ll give you a rundown:

1 coat OPI Nail Envy

1 coat Sally Hansen Big Matte Top Coat

2 coats Essie Ballet Slippers

2 coats China Glaze Tropical Tease

1 coat NOPI Love Your Life

1 hefty coat of old, goopy Seche Vite

Yeah... 8 total coats on my nails. It took quite a while and it’s still drying! For whatever reason I’m in a chunky glitter mood. I chose hearts because, duh, Valentine’s Day! But I’m thinking tomorrow I may do a moon and star look with Revlon Celestial FX, my favorite chunky glitter.

I think that’ll do it for today. Happy Valentine’s Day, and until next time...