26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Black and White Valentines

This is the 9th manicure of the 26 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

The challenge this fortnight is Black and White Valentines

Again, I've incorporated a gradient and a nail decal.  The decal has a bit of red in it, but then valentines has to have a bit of red, right?  I uses OPI Alpine Snow and Orly Liquid Vinyl.

See what other participants did in this challenge via the inlinkz below:

Sponged and Freehand Drawn Hearts - Fail!

OK, I did these nails for the GOT polish challenge way back in February.  I loved the colours but it turned out really messy looking that I did not post it (I did  another one for the challenge here).  However I thought I should do a post about it as not every manicure turns out how we originally see it in our heads!

Items used:
As above photo, also
Black acrylic paint
Seche Vite
OPI Nail Envy

Inspired - Valentine's Manicure 002

12 February 2013
I did this manicure last Tuesday.  It is now Monday 18th Feb.  Apart from a little tip wear, I have to say that this manicure has lasted really well.  I have also only lost one bead from my right dominant hand. I work at a school and I am the dishwasher so I am really surprised.  This is No 3 from the PIA range I bought a few weeks ago from fragrancedircet.
Inspired by Robin Moses here.

Items Used:

OPI Nail Envy
Seche Vite
PIA - 03 - Vivid Pink
Sinful Color - Black on Black (Polka Dots)
Acrylic Paint - White
Mini Beads - Silver
Dotting Tool

Inspired - Valentine's Manicure 001

9 February 2013
This was my manicure before valentines day. It was inspired by Kelsie's Nail Files here.  Mine's a bit messy, sorry, done late at night.  But overall I think it looked great.  I have to also mention the lacquer I used here.  I was looking for some more nail polish bargains at fragrancedirect when I came across this new brand (new to me anyway) PIA.  The bottles look exactly like OPI and even the logo etc on the front of the bottle is very OPIesque.  The shades looked great (28 in all) and the price was good also.  Before I knew it, I had them all my basket and paid for them.  I was very pleasantly surprised when the package arrived.  I have to say also that these applied beautifully and were almost opaque in one coat, I applied two for this manicure.

Have you heard/bought PIA lacquer?  If so what is your opinion on them?

Unfortunately these don't have names only numbers, such a shame. 

Items Used:

OPI Nail EnvyItems
Seche Vite
PIA - 09 - Red
PIA - 11 - Light Pink
Acrylic Paint - Black
Bronze Nail art pen

My Valentine Manicure

I wasn't going to do anything too intricate or any nail art for valentines day, but I gave in and came up with something anyway :)  For the base colour I used Villiers Street by Nails Inc. A shimmery red.  I did the hearts using pink and black acrylic paint.  All topped off with a generous coat of SV and voila......