Clearly, I couldn't let a little mini marathon of Valentine's Day nail art pass without throwing in an abstract mani with some cute stamping... I mean, I feel a little bit like this style of mani is becoming a signature for me. The thing that always makes me go back to this type of mani is that it's entirely versatile - I can really make it work for any season, theme, or vibe to be exactly what I want it to be, and so it makes total sense that I was able to make... basically the exact same mani work for Christmas as for Valentine's Day.

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Sometimes when I sit down to do my nails, I have a fully formed idea of exactly what I'm going to do... and then when I'm finished it absolutely is not that. That's definitely what happened with this mani. I had one plan and it wasn't even nebulous - I knew exactly what I was going to do. I pulled out everything I needed for that mani... and then proceeded to use all of those products to do something else. It happens, right? I'm excited about it though because I really don't do gradient stamping enough and I think it really worked for this mani. 

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Hey guys! This week has gotten away from me a little bit and I ended up missing my planned upload yesterday - but these things happen and I'm going to make sure that I still get the same number of mani's that I had originally planned for Valentine's Day - there just might be a bit of a double up tomorrow. Anyway, for today's Valentine's Day themed nail art, I decided to keep it simple and went with a pairing of red and white with some graphic details and a little bit of cuteness. 

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Did I buy the stamping plate that I used for today's mani specifically for the purpose of doing this mani? Pretty much. Pretty. Much. I saw these cute little bride and groom images and I was like, "Well, I guess I need to get that and put them on my nails." So I did. Honestly, filling in these really small images is not my favorite thing in the world, but... I mean... it's just so damn cute at the end of the day that it's hard to deny. I also paired it with this beautiful new-to-me indie polish base and I'm pretty smug over here at how it turned out, I will admit. 

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Admittedly, I wasn't entirely sure how this mani was going to turn out when I first thought of it - but it's actually pretty bang on with what I was intending. I tend to lean more towards adorable lovey cuteness when I think of Valentine's Day nails (probably because even though I'm not what I would ever call a romantic, I think there's something distinctly sweet about this particular holiday) but this time I wanted to go for a straight up blood and guts feel... but make it pretty! Anyway, here's what I came up with!

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If there's one thing that's just straight up true about me when it comes to my nails (but also really sort of us just in general, actually) it's that I love a theme. I think that's why January and November are generally the months I struggle with the most when it comes to nails, because I've just come off pretty intensely specific themes and I've sort of got nothing until the next theme comes around. Just me? Anyway, that's why I'm SUPER excited to get into February and do some cute Valentine's Day/Love themed nail art. It's not generally my thing, but it's a theme and if it's a theme I'm going to theme it. (It's Monday and I had a really weird weekend, so I apologize now for the fact that my brain is... particularly in the weirder me parts at the moment.)

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