Flip Flop #14: French/Valentine's Day

Right so scrap all that rubbish about it being too late for Valentine's Day, I decided to combine both of the day 14 options and create a quick Valentine's French manicure!

My nails are a little short for french tips at the moment really, so I cheated and absorbed a little of my nail bed into my tip.  By a little...I mean most of the tip is nail bed.  I've only got about a mm of tip at the moment, and I still managed to break a corner off my middle finger!

So here you have my naked nails.  Well...I touched up my ring finger slightly because I've got this massive white spot where I must have bashed it a few weeks ago and it's still got about halfway to go before it grows out.  Boo.  The tips are Barry M Matt White, dotted with OPI Flick Chick Cherry.  Then I picked a few hearts out of KleanColor Twinkly Love.

Twinkly Love is a rather thick polish, and you can see that it's a bit gunky around the hearts here.  I probably could've done with dabbing some of the polish off after placing the hearts, or maybe just another coat of Seche Vite to smooth it all out.

What do you think?  It's weirding me out a bit having such white tips...they certainly don't look like that underneath the polish!

Love Hearts

Morning all!  I hope you're all enjoying the festive season, and haven't over indulged too much!  I think if I see another glass of wine my liver might try to make a break for it...  Today's my last day in Swansea with my family, before I head up to Liverpool to spend New Year's with my boyfriend and his family.  My brother and sister-in-law (plus dogs) are coming over for a second Christmas dinner and eggnog later, so that should be good fun :)  And my sister-in-law isn't driving for a change, which means I can get her drunk :D

But anyway, you read my blog for the nails, so here you go!  These have been sitting in my 'To be posted' folder for months - I did them for the evening reception of my cousins wedding back in September, and for some reason just haven't got round to posting them.

I used George Gnome and OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons as my base colours, then added a coat of BeautyUK Gold Digger and Kleancolor Twinkly Love on the nude nails.  I did have to fish about a bit for the hearts, and place them where I wanted them, but I don't mind when they're this cute...

What do you think of an accent nail arrangement like this?  I'm normally a ring finger accent kind of girl, but I do enjoy the occasional foray into something different.  What's your accent nail preference?

My Favourite Things: Hearts and/or Love

So I've shelled out the ridiculous prices once again for a meagre amount of internet usage. Sorry I haven't been replying to any comments over the last few days, it's just a pain with having such limited internet access. Hopefully on Saturday I'm going to find my way into town and locate somewhere that can sell me a dongle.

Anyway, on to more important matters! It's day 8 in the My Favourite Things challenge hosted by Kelly at Ooh La La Polish! The theme is hearts and/or love. This is also one of my attempting-to-wear-nail-polish-to-work-without-getting-told-off manicures. Expect to see more of these...

I used OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons and Barry M Matt White.  I think my heart drawing technique needs a bit of work...but I did do these at like 7am...

Only two more manicures left now!  Next up is flowers on Tuesday and then my favourite mani on Thursday.  I shall have to have a nose through everyone's manis so far and decide what I want to do for that one...

Also, what do you all think of the bigger photo size and the border I've added?  Yay or nay?  It'd be great to get your opinions in the comments.