Valentine's Day nail art

Today I have for you a few different styles of Valentine's Day nail art I did. Nothing too fancy, but I thought they were all cute!

The first I have can be seen more in my last post, using one of my new Square Hue colors in Shibuya.

That was definitely my favorite mani I've done in a long time. I used a few chevron vinyl guides I got back in Julep's Zig Zag mystery box, from October I believe. I'm almost out of them so I'll have to order some soon from an etsy vendor or something!

The next was relatively simple, but it's a favorite of mine. When I first got into nail art, I couldn't believe how something as simple as scotch tape could lead to such cool artwork. My absolute favorite is doing angled stripes, it just always looks so cute to me. For this I used Julep Nicolette as the white, used a layer of Seche Vite, taped off and used China Glaze Dance Baby, repeat, and used China Glaze Red Pearl for the top. It gets a bit thick due to all the top coat, but I love it otherwise.

Here's smaller versions of the other steps, just to see what it looks like:

 I also did some simple half moons with Julep Nicolette and Zoya Aurora when my planned artwork didn't look too great. I love the holo glitter in Aurora, but didn't love this combo too much.

And lastly my actual Valentine's Day nails had no special artwork. My Julep Cupid's Mystery Box arrived the day before so I used the new exclusive to the pedi box color, Aphrodite, which was pretty on it's own. I'll go through an unboxing of my millions of new colors that arrived that day in my next post, though!

 

Hope you enjoyed!

-T

Square Hue unboxing and Valentine's Day nail art

If anyone actually reads this blog yet, I apologize for the hiatus between posts. My internet was down for a few days when I did have some posts planned, and then I just never got around to doing them when I got it back up and running. Moving forward I'm going to have a few draft posts on hand so that there won't be such a delay between entries and this will look like a real blog!

Today I have for you the unboxing of my first Square Hue monthly box, and some cute Vday nail art I did with one of the polishes. I'm going to make another post with all of my Vday nail art designs, too!

Square Hue is a monthly nail polish subscription box, much like Julep, but you don't have any hints or choices on your polish. It's literally a surprise what 3 you're getting, unless you read spoilers about them because everyone gets the same 3! I jumped on a recent promo they had for a free box and I absolutely loved it. I currently put my sub on hold due to funds, but will probably renew it in the future.

The polishes were packed super cute, and so secure. I know a lot of people have issues when opening Julep polishes because they're just kind of thrown in. Square Hue uses a box made for holding the three polishes, meaning no flying around during delivery.

This month's "theme" was Tokyo, and the three colors fit very well. The colors received were:
Roppongi - a lime green base with lime green chunky glitters and gold small glitters
Shibuya - a hot pink 'microglitter' which to me was more of a duochrome shimmer with purples
Ginza - a light frosty ice blue shimmer

 

The polishes are all a bit thin but seem easy enough to work with. I wanted to do something Valentines-y so I used Shibuya right away in this chevron/glitter mani. Other colors used were OPI - My Boyfriend Scales Walls for the chevron nail, and Zoya Trixie under Julep Joelle for the glitter nail.

One pic in lighting and one in flash to capture the holo that is Joelle.

 

The shipping was super quick on the boxes, too, which was nice. Overall a pretty decent experience, I just wish there was a slight choice of colors.The box runs $14.99 with $5 shipping every month and can be bought at www.squarehue.com, but keep an eye out on their facebook page for promos like I got!

-T