Thursday, February 13, 2014

Caged

Valentine's Day is nearly here and I've saved my favorite for last. This manicure has got a ton of my favorite things: black polish, hand painted details, purple holo and my new favorite, fake gold leaf. I've really been wanting a nice gold leaf polish, but per my usual cheapness I just can't seem to find one I like enough to pay super big bucks for (yeah.. anything over $10 is pretty rich for my blood). I was at CVS the other day and saw this "gold leaf effect" top coat from NYC for only $2. I absolutely love it. I don't think it will fool anyone into believing it's real gold leaf, but it's a gorgeous gold flakie for sure. The search continues for the real thing though. If you have any recommendations for the perfect gold leaf polish let me know. If it's pretty enough I might just have to go for it. 




I started out with two coats of my favorite black from LA Colors on every finger except the ring finger. For that I used one coat of Wet n Wild Megalast, I Need a Refresh-Mint and one coat of 2% milk which is a sheer pink I like to layer over bright colors to tone them down a bit. I put one coat of NYC's Top of the Gold top coat on the black nails. On my accent nails I painted on hearts with a small nail art brush in Zoya's Aurora and used black acrylic paint for the bird cage.



The Sparkle Queen has put together a blog hop for everyone to show off their Valentine's manicures. If you need inspiration for some last minute nails... or if you just can't ever look at too many pretty polishes (me!) scroll on. There are some truly great artists in this group. Enjoy!


6 comments:

  1. Hey Erin! I love your blog and I nominated it for the Liebster award. Check out my nominations post here http://nailcentric.net/liebster-award-nomination-3/
    x Yana

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    1. Thanks so much! I'm honored. I'll check it out as soon as I get a chance. :)

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  2. Love this! Makes me want a gold flakie too. I was so proud because I had gone so long without it...

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    1. I felt the same way. I didn't "need" one until recently, but now I really want it.

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  3. An absolutely beautiful manicure! I love everything about it, the sparkles, the details, it's just lovely! Thanks for sharing it (and the blog hop!) with everyone!

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    1. Thanks so much! I really enjoyed the blog hop. So many pretties to look at and now I have at least 3 new techniques I want to try.

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