Week of Love Nail Art Challenge - Freestyle/Recreate

Hello everyone and Happy Valentine's Day! Today sees the end of the 5 day Week of Love Nail Art challenge being hosted by Jessica from Be Happy and Buy Polish. If you check out the links from all the posts and the Pinterest board, you will find some fantastic, creative, lovey dovey nail art.

The last prompt was Freestyle/Recreate, so I went with Freestyle to create an old school tattoo style mani. I started with an LA Colors sandy nude with a shimmer - I'd give you the name but its worn off the bottle (oops!). I then painted on the letters with Black Velvet and French White and added the heart using Color Club Art of Seduction which I then outlined with the black. 

I think that along with the chalkboard hearts and crosses I did last week that these are my favourite Valentines nails that I've done this year! They are very me and you can expect more tattoo style nails when my competition length nails arrive in the next week or so, although I think that they are going to be a long term project!

This has been an awesome challenge (perfect length!) and I wish that I'd been able to get more involved. Big thanks to Jessica for hosting and organising! Check out all the other final manis by following the links below! :)

Sam xx

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Week of Love Challenge - Hearts

Hello! So here I am with my second post for today! I havebeen a bad girl when it comes to this challenge - I have had to let a few things slide this week on the nail front and I'm sad to say that this challenge has been one of them. I have only officially missed one prompt which was yesterday's "Roses". I will try and do a roses mani in the near future, but I don;t think its going to be this week!

So, today's prompt is "Hearts". As I mentioned before, I'm kind of Valentined out already, so I wanted to have a go at a different interpretation. I settled on jewellery, and as I had done a heart mani that included chains a week or so back (my mind wanders around some strange places after dark lol), I went for a more traditional jewellery chain feel.

I started with a base of Color Club Williamsburg which is a beautiful deep navy with a very dark shimmer. I then added hearts with a detail brush using LA Colors Solar Gold and then dotted on the chain effect. Once dry, I went back in over the gold dots with more of the navy to create the chain effect and added some gold glitter over the heart charms for a little added sparkle. I finished with Seche Vite.

Tomorrow's final prompt is Freestyle/Recreate. I have already done this one so it should be in on time and I can't wait to share it with you!

Take a look at all the other interpretations this theme by following the links below - its so great to see what looks like endless creativity from all the ladies involved :)

Sam xx

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