Purple Kisses - Quick & Easy Valentine's Nails

I have a love/ hate relationship with festive/ seasonal manis. I usually don't have a problem stamping hearts or snowflakes on my nails throughout the year but when it's Christmas or Valentine's, I end up not managing my time properly and panicking because for some reason I get really busy and have to rush all my festive manis. They always end up a mess!

So, for this Valentines I decided to do a series (hopefully I will manage more than one mani until Tuesday) which are very quick and easy but still capture the Valentine's feel.

This mani is inspired by Erika. I spotted it on her blog last year and loved it so much that I kept it in my "to do" folder for this year. Erika added some amazing matte french tips but to keep this mani quick and not have to mess around with scotch tape, I didn't add any tips :(

Base colour is Barry M Black. I love Barry M polishes but their black is really bad to work with, it's extremely hard to control and gets goopy by the time you reach your 3rd nail. I had quite a bit of clean-up to do. I just want this bottle to finish already!!! I then stamped using BM02, GOSH Metallic Purple and an unnamed Primark polish.

From the Vault: Sinful Colors Kismet Elated & BM02

Hi everyone. Hope you are all having a great weekend. After an all day rainy day yesterday, we've got.......... a little bit more rain!!! It's June!!! Stop raining!!!

Today I am showing you a mani I did a couple of weeks ago but was slightly disappointed so I didn't post it right away. Then, I was looking through the files on my laptop and decided that it's actually not all that bad, although I'm not sure what I was trying to achieve and I'm still unsure about the choice of colours!!
I do love this colour (a shimmery magenta-purple with a slight gold shimmer and a bit of a chameleon colour that changes depending on light), I had trouble with the application. As you'll see from the last picture, I applied 3 coats and there is still VNL! I was going to apply a 4th coat but as I was quite annoyed by this point, I didn't! I'm sorry to say I'm a 2 coat kinda gal!!!
I then added some white curtain tips and stamped with Konad White stamping polish and BM02.

xoxo
Vanessa