Inspired by... Pinterest!

Hello everyone, happy Monday! Today is my second Pinterest inspired mani with Amanda. On my Butter London Molly Coddled post, I alluded to the fact that there'd be another post with that color, so Molly Coddled is my base color for a mani inspired by this post by Dori Davis (which is a new-to-me blog but I'm obsessed with it now):

Dori used tape to create the hearts but I'm a rebel (Dottie? anyone catch that reference?!) and decided to freehand it (which should indicate to you why last week's Pinterest mani involved using heart glitter rather than my mad freehand skillz). Also, since it's "Inspired by Pinterest" and not necessarily "Copy Pinterest", I decided to only do hearts on my middle two fingers and used Candy Lacquer Love-ly Lavender on my pinky and pointer. The gray crackle is the one from China Glaze but I know you guys don't really care about that so I'm going to channel my inner lazy and not look up the actual name.

What do you think? I was amazed how perfectly my middle finger's heart cracked and even mentioned it on twitter haha! I think this is a good, muted way to show a Valentine's mani that isn't all red and pink and hearts. (Though there's nothing wrong with that in my book!)

xoxo,
Amanda

Inspired by...

...Pinterest! Amanda and I decided to try our hand at some of the nail art we see on Pinterest and Instagram. (By the way, if you want to follow me, my username is amanda_npe on both!) My inspiration came from Pinterest, where I saw this post from Beauty Tips n Tricks.

My version is a little different as I chose different colors and rather than trying to draw hearts, I used iridescent/white heart glitter (I can make one heart well, two will be good but not the same, and three I get into rocky very mismatched territory).

For my version I used a set of scented minis that Amanda sent me, actually. I was fairly naive and didn't realize they were all scented until I started using them and HOLY COW was that a nasal nightmare. I didn't keep this on long because of the smell of four different scents going on at once. I used Cherry, Blue Raspberry, Orange, and Grape from Jolly Rancher/Nerds sets available at Claire's. They applied okay but were actually pretty difficult to remove, which surprised me. On the second coat, I added the hearts while wet and voila! Very easy start to my Inspired By... series :)

xoxo,
Amanda