In your face, Valentines

I entered a competition on facebook to win some Sugarpill stuffs which I'm not about to win but I thought that I would post some pictures here anyway.

This isn't actually what I was originally going to do. What I had been thinking of doing was a red/pink/purple army print mask thing. I tried that twice before I gave up on that idea. The second time I was almost up to doing the mascara before I decided it looked horrid.

Then I thought of this. I did the whole outline in a white eyeliner first to make sure it looked okay and filled the whole thing in with it as well (I don't have a jumbo eye pencil yet - it's on it's way, though!). Then I went over the outline with black eyeliner and then set that with black eyeshadow, pulling the eyeshadow in as I went around so that the inner part faded out. Then half over the black and half over the white that hasn't been coloured I went used a deep shimmer red, then bright red (Love+ from sugarpill) then a bright pink then a more white pink and another pink just over the lids of my eyes. Using magentric (sugarpill) and another red shimmer loose shadow I went over the pink & red parts. Regular eyeliner but I pulled it out quite far in the inner corners and added lashes. I went over the outline with a liquid liner, and went for a basic lip with some bright blush!

Single on Valentines? More than enough love in these nails!

As promised I did another Valentines Day manicure. I have now been told that it looks like St Valentine got drunk and threw up love on my nails, haha. Why not go over the top for Valentines? It only comes once a year!

I was totally stuck trying to think of what to do. I was actually going to do a polka dot look. Then I was thinking of bright green with something (because I really like green nails for some reason), but I couldn't decide what. THEN I was thinking of doing a beach scene but with palm trees all broken in reference to the cyclone in north Queensland that is making my work hell at the moment. After pondering this while watching the first 5 episodes of Cowboy Bebop again I thought "Oh My God! Valentines day is on Monday! Duh!" Which is when I actually wrote the last post and had the brainwave of doing this manicure.

The colours I used are China Glaze - GR8 (as the gold base) then various hearts using China Glaze - Ruby Pumps, China Glaze - Purple Panic (neon), OPI - Crimson Carol, Essie - Limited Addiction, Sephora by OPI - Shopping Frenzy. Then I did black outlines using America Apparel - Hassid (I think I might buy myself another 3 bottles of this, haha) and a couple of dots with Sephora by OPI - Rumba Romance. Then a few dotty things that I got in a really cheap wheel from ebay.

Checkered Torture

Ahh the horror! The pain! Well perhaps not pain. It was annoying though! I asked my mum "How should I do my nails this week?" and she says "What about white and purple squares?"
So I think about it and I look at my collection of polish and I realise that my favourite purple is just about dead. So I think about colours that I haven't done together in a while. Blue and orange! Perfect! Blue and orange and white squares in all different sizes. It'll be all pseudo modern.

Then it comes time to do them.

The Revlon white polish I use is awful, I've said this before. It took me four coats until I was happy with how opaque it was. Then I get out my orange and blue polish. The orange I was going to use is no where near opaque enough to use so I chose another and just used the polish brush to do dots of nearly rectangles and squares on my nails. It's a bit hard to judge exactly how many will look good and what will look like overkill at this stage. Then I do the blue. All good. Then it comes time to do the black. The brush I was using had a hair that kept poking out at weird times. And because it's summer, and the heat is evil, the fans were on and it kept drying out the polish I'd put out to dip my brush in. Then I started to get hand tremors (I get them randomly). Then my nose starts running (in the middle of summer? WHY?!). Then my back starts to play up and I'm in enough pain that I can't sit upright properly. Then I crack it and yell at everyone, turn the fans off and do the rest of my nails with the fans off, hot, dripping sweat everywhere, hunched over like an old woman with a runny nose, shaking hands and talking to myself.

Fun.

The colours used are: TERRIBLE Revlon white (why don't I buy another white? I've had this for more than 5 years. Who keeps nail polish that long?), Revlon - (limited edition) Orange Flame, China Glaze - Frostbite and American Apparel - Hassid (again, the best black in the history of plain black polishes).