Yes and no on the time it takes, it took me almost three hours to do the whole removal, prep plus new gel colour, regular polish is faster to remove and you don’t need as much prep, but then you have to wait 12 hours for the polish to properly harden.

I did the heart with a dotting tool and a really small pointy brush, and freehanded the tip, I really suck at this kind of thing, hence only the couple nails with design.

My nails are definitely not strong and the lenght is only thanks to always having several layers of polish on, usually I have base, two colour coats and at least one layer of topcoat.