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Hi guys!

Valentine's Day is coming up soon so I thought I'd cook up some Valentine's Day inspired designs. I LOVE this look.... ;) 

I started off with a base of Nasty Nails One Night Stand. When it was dry I stamped over each nail using Mundo De Unas Light Pink and Bundle Monster plate BM-711. Then I used my Clear Jelly Stamper and stamped the letters over each nail using Born Pretty Store Black and Bundle Monster plate BM-426. I sealed everything in with some Seche Vite to finish it off!

I am so happy with the way these came out! The Clear Jelly Stamper has really revolutionized how we stamp, it has made placing specific designs, like the LOVE letters, SO much easier! I can't wait to create more!

What do you think about this look for Valentine's Day? Would you rock it?

Thanks loves!

HEART beat

Hi guys!

I'm loving on these Valentine's Day looks! The one is super unique and it was so much fun to create!

I started with a base of Color Club Miss Bliss. Then I stamped over each nail using Mundo De Unas White and Pink and Bundle Monster plate BM-319. Then I stamped over each nail using my Clear Jelly Stamper, Born Pretty Store Black and Bundle Monster plate BM-411. Finally I sealed everything in with Seche Vite and that was it!

I know a lot of people have mixed feelings about Valentines Day but I hope that we can all agree that pink nails and hearts can be worn all year long! ;) 

What do you guys think?

Thanks loves :) 

Twinsie Tuesday: Anti-Valentine's Day

Hi guys!

It's Tuesday again and you know what that means.... Twinsie Tuesday! The theme for this week is Anti-Valentine's Day and I was kind of at a loss for this one. I really enjoy Valentine's Day, call me a hopeless romantic all you want ;), so I never really know what to do for an Anti-Vday manicure. But I really am happy with the design I created, are you ready to take a look?

I started off with a base of Essie No Baggage Please. When it was dry I used the dry brush technique to create a distressed look using Lime Crime Parfait Day, Color Club Miss Bliss, China Glaze Escaping Reality, and WetnWild Black Creme. I sealed everything in with Seche Vite and that was it!

So what do you think?! Did I do a good enough job for an Anti-Valentine's Day manicure? At least I tried right? ;) Make sure you take a look at the other girls Anti-Valentine's Day manicures, I can't wait to see what everyone came up with!

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Lisa at The Polish Playground

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

Kristine at Pink and Polished Nails

Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

Bridget at A Painted Nail

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Amanda at Fashion Footing

Amanda at Amandalandish

Alaina at The Little Canvas

 Thanks loves :) 

Create A Little Love on Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day Cupcakes! :) 

I hope you are all having a wonderful day! Mine's been ehh, I had to work and my boyfriend took a trip to Maine [I live in Massachusetts] with his dad and some friends to go snowmobiling for the weekend so I'm a bit lonely. I won't bore you with the details but we haven't been this far away from each other ever so I'm sad but trying to stay cheerful! Hey, what can ya do right? 

Love means something different to every person, to me it's finding that one person you can be completely yourself with, and also someone who makes you want to be a better person, someone who inspires you. I'm so incredibly grateful to have been lucky enough to find that special someone and even though he's four hundred and something miles away, his heart stays here and I know he'll be home soon :) Oooooh muuuuuuushy ;) LOL 

So I started with a base of Essie No Baggage Please and used the saran wrap method to add Essie Blanc, Lime Crime Parfait Day, and China Glaze Pool Party. When that was dry I painted the half moons on using Essie Blanc and used a dotting tool to create the 'doily' effect. I added some small dots in the bigger dots using Lime Crime Parfait Day. After that I used Bundle Monster BM-426 and stamped the love letters with L.A. Colors Striping Polish in Black and filled in the empty space with OPI This Gown Needs A Crown. I top coated with some Poshe and the design was finally finished! Whewwwwwww!

Look at those chubby little fingers!! You know what they say, the camera adds ten pounds LOL! 

But seriously I have a question for all of you, since my boyfriend is away on a trip will YOU all be my valentines? ;) 

Thanks loves :)

A Valentine's Day Inspiration Nation

Love is in the air! 

Well it always is isn't it? I suppose I'm just looking for an excuse to use pink nail polish, but then again, I don't need one of those either... this blog IS called Pink & Polished riiiiight?! ;)

Details, details...

Anyways! I think it's about time for another inspiration nation post, I've been inspired by the extremely talented Lucy from Lucy's Stash time and time again and when she posted her Valentine's Day Dotted Swirl Nails I knew I had to give it a whirl! She even posted a tutorial video with some really helpful hints like how to get perfect swirls... I really recommend you watch it, it's so helpful! 

So I started this look off with a base of OPI Chic From Ears To Tail on all of my nails. When that was dry I created the dotted swirls using Essie Blanc, China Glaze Pool Party, and a dotting tool. I sealed it all in with some Poshe top coat and fell in love! 

Okay so, I absolutely love this design BUT these pinks do something to my camera that she just can't handle! I don't know if it's the neon-ness of CG Pool Party or just the fact that this light pink doesn't work with my skin tone... either way it looks like I did some nail art on a dead hand so I'm sorry for that ;( LOL But you'll just have to believe me it looks so pretty in person! Damn you camera devil!! 

Valentine's Day is right around the corner! What are YOU going to wear on your nails?
Thanks chickies :) 

Valentine's-aversary Nails!

Good morning!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!! I know people have mixed feelings about this day but I love it! I love it for a different reason though, today is mine and my boyfriend's 5 year anniversary! :) Yeah I know it's cliche that it's on Valentine's Day but hey whatever! He's a little rough on the edges but once you get to know him he's a big mush puddle ;) And he's probably going to kill me for saying that hahah! 

Anyways on to the nails! I'm not going to lie I was going to do a super cool free-handed something or other but totally ran out of time :( But that's ok because I've really been wanting to use some of Bundle Monster's heart stamping plates! I also incorporated accent nails inspired from a tutorial on Youtube, you'll have to forgive me but I just don't have the time at the moment to go find out who it's from, if someone knows let me know in the comments so I can give credit for these awesome gradient hearts! So check out my Valentine's-aversary nails :) 

Colors used:
- Lime Crime Parfait Day
- L.A. Colors striper polish in Black
- China Glaze Glistening Snow
- China Glaze Escaping Reality
- Sally Hansen White On

I could so use China Glaze Glistening snow in every mani for the rest of my life and die completely happy! LOL It's serious just such a beautiful polish! I wish I took some pics with flash (because you know there was no sun by the time I did these) to show off the prettiness. Maybe I'll take one tomorrow and post it up on Twitter! If you don't follow me you totally should! ;) @pinkandpolish if you wanna!

Bonus!! LOL So we don't really take pictures all that often so this is going back to Halloween hahah but here's a picture of us :) And yes I was Cookie Monster ;) 

So what do you guys think?

Thanks for reading and have a lovely day!! :) 

The patchwork to my heart ;)

Hello hello!

Happy Wednesday! I had a lovely day off yesterday and spent it painting my nails! I mean what else would I do?! 

I've got another Valentine's Day-esque mani for you guys today I hope your not getting sick of them ;) lol! This one isn't very traditional because it only uses a little bit of pink :) I have been wanting to try some patchwork nails for a while now and decided what better to do then some patchwork hearts? Well now you know! ;) Take a look!

Colors used:
- Lime Crime Milky Ways
- Lime Crime Pastelchio
- White Acrylic Paint
- Black Acrylic Paint
- Blue Acrylic Paint
- Pink Acrylic Paint

And because I thought it would look cool, I mattified it :) 

Definitely loving it mattified! I'm so into the whole patchwork nail thing, I'm going to be trying another one really soon so keep your eyes open!

So what do you think?

Thanks for reading guys :) 

The Valentine's Day blehhh

Good morning!

So today's mani did NOT turn out like I had hoped -_- I was working on another Valentine's Day one and it just didn't look anything like it did in my head :( BUT I shall show you all anyways!  It's not particularly bad just not what I wanted.

I saw THIS picture from Google it's from the awesome Leslie of Polish Art Addiction and wanted to do something like it... except it didn't go that way ;)  But take a look!! :) 

Colors used:
- Layla Jade Groove
- Lime Crime Crema de Limon
- Lime Crime Parfait Day
- Lime Crime Lavendairy
- Maybelline Color Show Green With Envy
- NYC Matte Me Crazy

As you can see I was attempting to do a candy heart mani lol! I tried to do the writing too but that failed epically bad! And can someone please tell me why on earth I would mattify the beautifulness that is Layla Jade Groove? Because I'm not very sure why I would do such a thing -_- I suppose going for the whole chalky candy heart look is why but still a Layla holo should NEVER be mattified! Also Maybelline Green With Envy is just too close a color to Layla Jade Groove so you can barely see it...

Welp not every mani can turn out like I want but I will always show them to you guys here no matter how bad ;) And they don't always turn out bad, just not what I expected... sometimes they turn out even better :) 

So what do you guys think? I've got another Valentine's Day mani in the works for you all :)

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Thanks for reading! :) 

Have a little heart will ya?

Good morning guys!

I've got my first Valentine's Day mani for you :)

I love Valentine's Day.... Yes I'm one of those people ;) LOL Well the main reason I like it is it's my boyfriend's and I anniversary so that makes it extra special... cliche right? Oh well! So anyways I was looking for some inspiration for some Valentine's Day nails when I came across THIS mani by the lovely The Girlie Tomboy and knew immediately that I needed to try it! It combines two of my favorite things: hearts and leopard! So anyways here's my first Valentine's Day mani of the season :) 

Colors used:

- Lime Crime Parfait Day

- China Glaze Escaping Reality

- White Acrylic Paint

I especially loved using Lime Crime Parfait Day as a base because it's such a bubble gum pink! I love it!

On a side note: my nails are growing!! I'm so happy!! I miss my longer nails... not that they were all that long but if you've been a nail biter like me then you know that any length is a miracle in itself ;) And you know how sad I was to cut them down :( 

If you haven't visited The Girlie Tomboy yet you absolutely have to! My version doesn't hold a candle to her's she's really amazing! So go show her some love!! :)

So what do you guys think? Do you like Valentine's Day?

Thanks for reading :)