Kat Stays Polished | Beauty Blog with a Dash of Life: valentine's day

Julep Valentine's Day Mani

Tuesday, February 05, 2013

It's getting closer to Valentine's day! Are you going to be sporting a Valentine's mani? If so, will be it traditional or non-traditional?

Well, I'm all about the non-traditional, no-pink mani. Today's design just has a SMIDGEN of pink, for the heart of course.

Over the weekend, I stumbled upon Michelle Phan's video for a cute heart template made from bandages. Yup! I was like, dang, that's pretty clever.

Recently, I've been doing saran wrap manis and I LOVE them! When I got my February Maven box, I was like...yea, I know what I'm gonna do with these colors.

So, I used Julep Morgan, Marion, and Joan along with the Freedom Polymer top coat that also came with my Feb Maven box.

The steps are pretty self explanatory, but if you have questions, ask away in the comments or on my Facebook!

By the way, Freedom applies like a dream and dries super glossy and smooth.

I also wanted to point out that if you didn't want to add the heart for Valentine's Day, I REALLY love the way the saran wrap mani turned out. Just simply stop at step 4. =)

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Valentine's Day Audrey Mint Mani

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Ready for a non-traditional Valentine's mani? I took a poll on my Facebook page to see which colors you'd like to see most. Of course one of my friends chose MINT GREEN and someone else said to use For Audrey.

I wanted to keep it simple so I used FA as my accent finger and painted the rest with Re-Fresh Mint.

I also wanted the heart to be on my accent finger, so I arranged the hex glitters upside down. Feel free to do whatever you want on your thumb. I did a couple of cute hearts with my dotting tool.

For Audrey & Re-Fresh Mint Valentine's Day Mani

Thanks for stopping by! If you try it, post it on my FB page!

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Valentine's Dot Gradient Manicure

Friday, January 18, 2013

WHAT?! Another PINK manicure from Kat? Well, yes. It's going to be Valentine's Day soon and pink and red take over the world!

Do you remember my teal dot gradient mani from a couple of months back? Well, I thought it would be nice to do one with pink polish.

These are 4 of the 35 polishes I won from Milani's Holiday nail art contest.

The two hot pink colors are hard to tell apart, but trust me, they look different on the nail. I super bummed about the smearing on 2 of the fingers. I managed to carefully apply top coat to the remaining fingers.

I hope you like this one. If you try it out, post it to my Facebook page!

Dot Gradient Manicure for Valentine's Day

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Revlon Girly for a Girly Valentine Design

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Who doesn't have Girly and Heavenly? It took me a while to find them but I finally got my hands on them!

As most of you know, I am not a fan of pink, but nail polish has reeled me in with polishes like this.

Valentin'e Day is coming up and this is the perfect mix of pink, purple, and love colors.

Here it is shown with three thin coats and a top coat.

Revlon Girly

My design is simple. Simply paint your accent nail black. Using a white polish, draw a heart on it. When it's dry, use a toothpick dipped into Girly and cover the heart. Use Heavenly to add sparkly around the heart.