Why Am I Always a Day Behind?

Once again, I am a day behind in the February Love-ly NAC.  The theme for this was gifts.  I have two manis for this, so please forgive me.

This first one probably doesn't make any sense.  Look, and then I will explain.

This was inspired by Chalkboard Nails HERE.  Now the reason these are considered "gifts" is that one of Bria's teachers loves owls.  So I did these on Bria's nails as a "gift" for her teacher.  

I started with Sinful Colors Cinderella as a base.
The Owls were made with China Glaze Your Touch (body), Zoya Cheryl (wings and legs) and Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Lightening (eyes and beak).
The hearts were made with China Glaze Your Touch and Nina Spun Sugar.

Bria said that the big owl was scratching his butt, because I messed up his wing (tee hee).

The next mani was inspired by the gift box my valentine chocolates came in this year.

  
I started with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Rapid red.

 This color isn't really me.  It is too bright a red.  I like those vampy reds.  One of the benefits of the Insta-Dri is that it really does dry really, really, really quick.  I can paint my nails five minutes before I walk out the door with no topcoat and not worry about ruining my nails.  This red, though, is terrible with the staining.  Nails, cuticles, everything, so make sure you wear a base coat or two.

Then I stamped with Sinful Colors Black and LeLac XL plate B.  Love this plate!  I wanted to use Konad Special Black for this stamping, but I think my bottle is getting too old and the stamp to detailed, because I couldn't get the image to transfer, the polish kept drying too fast.