Sweet Pink Heart Manicure Tutorial

Posted by Ana on Feb 9th 2018

SIMPLE TUTORIAL

Sweet Pink Heart Nails for Valentine’s Nail Art Tutorial

Here's a classic older post from an international nail art tutorial contest we hosted several years ago. This time I made the tutorial instructions a lot simpler for different nail artists to enter. Only written instructions were required instead of step-by-step photo tutorials.
Part of the prize for the winner was that I would wear her design for Valentine’s Day. This is the perfect sweet, yet grown up design on nails for Valentine’s Day. I’ve included Sunandha’s directions in this post and you can see her winning entry at www.simplenailarttips.com/valentines-nail-art-hearts-on-fanned-pink-nail-art-tutorial
To be honest, this is a design I would have never been drawn toward to create on my nails. But I’m so happy I did! It’s a very simple design and has gotten a lot of compliments. I hope you’ll give it a try with your own colors.
Have Fun! ~Ana

Instructions

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Apply your base coat – to protect your nails and create a surface that nail polish bonds to.
Paint your nails in the chosen base polish. I chose “Berry Parfait” by Jordana. It is a gorgeous Pink color.
Once it’s dry, take little white polish in the foil paper. Use fan brush and apply the white polish on your nail horizontally from one side of the nail and then the other side. (if the polish doesn’t apply in streaks, but as a broad stroke, just run the fan brush over it twice without dipping it in polish, you will get the streaks)
After the white polish is fully dry, apply pink polish in the same method described in step 3 (same as your base polish) to your nails. Don’t cover your white polish fully instead just enough for the white to peek through. (Think of a white nail polish sandwiched between pink polishes)
Let them dry again fully.
Now for your heart: There are two methods. one is to apply two dots using ur dotting tool and just drag the dots down to make a heart. Second is to use your dotting tool to make a “V” shape first and then manipulate it to make a heart. ( You can also use free hand) I love the second method since it easy to handle it even if I make a mistake when painting a heart.
Draw hearts on ur nails as described in step 6. I used a shimmery pink polish. Just as many hearts as you want. Its your wish.
After its all dry, top it off with a top coat to seal in your design.
Now sit back and enjoy your nails.

TIP: The white striping can be done with white polish or acrylic paint and a fan brush.

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