Heart-Tipped Valentine's Day Nails

I actually could care less about Valentine's Day itself, really. My fiancée and I go on dates and buy little treats and surprises for each other all year, so I don't buy into the manufactured hype. But for the sake of nail art? Yes, I will buy into that. ;)

I'm kicking off a week of Valentine's Day nails with some really simple heart-tipped nails. I'm actually doing these in order to test the fade levels of the pinks I used, so you'll probably see these nails pop up again in Fade Alert posts (or, if we're lucky, you won't!)
The heart tips are super easy to make with the normal polish brush. I put on 2 coats of The Perfect Silhouette then wiped the tacky layer. This turned out to be a mistake, as wiping really thinned the color and made it sheer in some areas. You should be able to see that pretty clearly on the middle finger. I didn't realize how sheer it was until after the mani was said and done, so I just left it alone. On my other hand I didn't wipe the tacky layer before painting the hearts and everything was fine.

From thumb to pinky I used, respectively, You're So Sweet You're Giving Me A Toothache, Go Girl, Make A Difference, Gossip Girl, and Less Talk. I topped the whole nail off with Gelish Matte TIO and then added some regular TIO to the tips, to make the hearts shiny.

I also bought my very first bottle of Essie for this mani!! Srsly, if I collected RNP it'd be Essie. Their colors are like a siren song every time I enter a CVS. I picked up Forever Yummy and, before beginning my Gelish mani I painted the undersides of my nails. I've been dyyying to try Louboutin nails so I figured they're long enough… why not?

They're kinda cool. Maybe I'll do them again sometime, but they don't pop as much as I hoped they would. It might just be the color I picked, though.

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