How-To: 3 Valentine's Day Nail Designs

Nailpro asked nail artist and educator Lauren Hoehn (@inspobynails) to create three nail art tutorials for Valentine’s Day, and she didn’t skip a beat.

Recreate her hearts and flower nail art on your clients during February and year-round. 

Marbled Flower 

1. Apply two coats of light pink or nude polish. Follow with a matte top coat.
2. Wipe a similar colored ink on the nail, and wait until dry.
3. Manipulate the ink into a marble pattern using an acetone-dipped brush.
4. Protect your ink work with top coat.
5. Paint on petals using no-wipe gel paint, then cure.
6. Repeat to add more petals!
7. Dot yellow gel paint in the center of the flower, and finish with your desired top coat.

I Heart You, Now Leave

1. Apply two coats of light pink or nude polish.
2. Paint on leaves using a fine liner brush and light green gel paint, then cure.
3. Repeat with darker green leaves.
4. Add leaves in a mid-tone green for added depth.
5. Dot on pink and red circles in pairs along the leaves, then connect them to form tiny hearts!
6. Add lighter pink and white dots in random areas, and finish with your desired top coat.

Pink Tweed Broken Heart 

1. Begin with a white base and draw two sides of a heart on two nails.
2. Fill in the heart using white texture art gel, then cure for 60 seconds.
3. Apply fine, light peach lines inside the heart for texture.
4. Repeat with light pink lines.
5. Sketch thin, black lines inside the heart using a fine liner brush for even more texture.
6. Outline the heart in black to finish.