A Valentine’s Day Love Mani

February 9, 2013

Want a sweet “love” themed manicure for Valentines Day? Here’s how to get one at home in just five easy steps. You will need a base coat, a top coat, a pink glitter polish, a red polish, a sharpie marker and an eyeliner brush.

1. Prep your nails with your favorite base coat or nail hardener. I used a sticky base coat to help keep the polish from chipping, longer.
2. Choose a nail to use as an accent nail and paint it with your pink glitter polish.
3. Once the pink glitter is dry, use your sharpie marker to plot out a heart in the center of the nail. If you do not have a steady enough hand to draw the lines don’t worry! Just make little dots to make the shape of a heart. You are going to paint over the lines anyway. I suggest using a light color so that it is easier to cover with the red polish.
4. Use your small eyeliner brush to fill in the space AROUND the heart with the red polish, leaving the pink glitter inside the heart uncovered to create a cool, cut out effect! The small eyeliner brush makes this easy, and you can use a few coats of polish if you need to get it smoother.
5. Now just paint the rest of your nails with the red color and top everything off with your favorite top coat, and you will have a really cool, DIY Valentines manicure!

- Nicole Quinn