Born Pretty Store Review - Real Dried Flowers

*Provided for review.

Hello my lovelies. Happy Saturday, I hope you are all having a lovely day so far. I am spending my day catching up on blog stuff (it feels like I do this every Saturday at the moment, I need some more organisation in my life!).

Today I have a review of these lovely dried flowers from Born Pretty Store. They come in a pack with twelve different colours but I have just used one colour for my nails today. Each colour comes in a separate little pot so they are nice and easy to store. I have been wanting to try out dried flowers for ages, but I've never got round to actually buying any so I was pleased to give these a go.

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Fingerfood's Theme Buffet - Holiday Inspired.

Hi guys! Thank god it's Friday! I went into work early today, which means I got to come home early.. so I have a nice long afternoon off.

This week's prompt for Fingerfood's Theme Buffet is holiday inspired. I have gone a bit holiday crazy this year - I went to Morocco in the beginning of July and I am going to Rhodes in the beginning of September (I am now very poor lol). So as you might be able to tell I was excited for this theme. I contemplated saving my Moroccan skyline nails I did last week for this theme, but I decided to do another design in the end. Instead I went for a tropical beach/desert island theme.

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Coral and Grey Floral Stamping.

Hi everyone. How are you all? I am glad it's nearly Friday, I have been so unmotivated with work this week!

I have more stamping for you today. I got all excited after my successful stamping on Monday and decided to have another go to check it wasn't a fluke :P. I'm glad to report that it wasn't lol.

Read on after the jump for full details.

Pick A Polish: Barry M - Berry Ice Cream.

Hello my loves. How was your Monday? I am still feeling a bit tired from the weekend so I am glad to be home now :P.

For Pick A Polish this week I shall be showing you Barry M - Berry Ice Cream. I use Barry M polishes a lot, but I haven't used this one in ages. I had almost forgotten how pretty it is!

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Negative Space Dotticure with Lace Detail

Hi loves. How have your days been? I have had a fairly standard day at the office today.

I have some pretty, girly nail art to show you today. I was inspired by this gorgeous design by Paulina's Passions which was just so pretty, so I had to try it out. Paulina has to be one of my favourite nail artists, she's got such a cute, girly style.. I love it :). 

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Life In Lacquer's Nail Art Challenge: Inspired by Another.

Hello everyone. It's nearly Friday! I've had a fairly uneventful day.

Today I have the final prompt for Life In Lacquer's Nail Art Challenge to show you today. I'm kinda sad this challenge is over, I always enjoy these kind of challenges! The theme today is inspired by another nail artist or blogger -  I decided to go for a design by the lovely Jade of Life In Lacquer herself. 

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Life In Lacquer's Nail Art Challenge - Floral

Hello everyone. Hope you're all well. I'm still feeling rather ill and I've spent six hours driving to and from a meeting today.. so I'm feeling a bit sorry for myself at the moment!

There is nothing that cheers me up more than some pretty floral nail art (sad, I know), and it just so happens that the theme for Life In Lacquer's Nail Art Challenge today is floral. So I have some pretty flowers to brighten my day (and hopefully yours too). 

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Pick A Polish: OPI - Embarca Dare Ya

Hi everyone. I hope you are all well. I am feeling pretty ill, but I pick my new car up this evening so not all bad :).

It's Pick A Polish time! This week I shall be showing you OPI - Embarca Dare Ya, I have had this one for a while and I have used it in nail art, but never as a full manicure. So it was nice to use it properly for once :P. 

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Life In Lacquer's Nail Art Challenge - Blue.

Provided for review*

Hello everyone. I am feeling very under the weather today, my boyfriend has had a cold lately and I think he has passed it onto me :(. On the upside I bought a new car yesterday which I shall be picking up tomorrow so I am quite excited.

The next theme for Life In Lacquer's Nail Art Challenge is blue and that is what I am going to show you today. I was looking forward to this one as I love blue and I managed to use lots of lovely blues in this manicure. I also used some more of the Nail Stickrs* which I was sent a while back (I reviewed them here). 

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Life In Lacquer's Nail Art Challenge - Geometric

Hi guys. I hope you're all well. I am glad I am home today and that it's almost the weekend :).

Today it's time for the next prompt in Life In Lacquers Nail Art Challenge which is geometric. I was a bit stumped with this theme so in the end I just googled geometric patterns and stumbled across this pattern. I thought it was a something a bit different so I decided to go for it and put it on my nails :). 

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Pick A Polish: Barry M - Rhossili

Hi dolls. How are you today? I am feeling extra tired for some reason.

I have this week's Pick A Polish post to show you today. This week it was Barry M - Rhossili which was chosen. This is one of Barry M's newer releases from their Summer Mattes collection. I swatched the whole collection here not too long ago, so sorry if you saw the swatches before. But I do have some nail art to go along with it today :).

My lid has a crack in it thanks to Boots online's rubbishy packaging :(.

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Barry M Dotticure

Hi loves. This is another scheduled post, I will currently be on the second day of my holiday when this post goes live :).

I wanted some quick and simple nail art recently when I was in a rush, so I figured what is better than a dotticure?! I have been loving Barry M lately so it ended up being a complete Barry M manicure too.

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Life In Lacquer's Nail Art Challenge - Food

Hello lovelies. An early post from me today as I am off to the airport in a few hours and flying out to Morocco this evening yay! I still have posts scheduled for the blog though, so it won't be quiet around here and my boyfriend has even agreed to share my posts on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter while I'm away (thanks Richard!).

The lovely Jade of Life In Lacquer is hosting a nail art challenge through the month of July which I have decided to take part in. I am on holiday for the next week (I don't know if I have mentioned that much hehe), but I have managed to get myself way ahead on my blog posts so I can still take part, because I haven't done a one off challenge in a while. The first prompt is food, so that is what I will be showing you today.

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Fashion Inspired - Colour Splash Nails

Hi everyone. I hope you are all having good days. It's a week today until I go on holiday so I'm starting to get excited now!

Today I have another clothing inspired manicure to show you. I have lots and lots of designs planned for these I just need to get round to creating them all on my nails :). So I might start doing a little series of these, but I'll just post them as and when I can instead of doing them once a week like some of the other series I have done.

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June Tri Polish Challenge: Turquoise, Coral and Nude.

Hi lovelies. I hope you are all having good days.

I have June's final Tri Polish Challenge post to show you today, I don't believe it's almost July already! This will be my last Tri Polish post for a while, if you are a regular reader you will know I have been really struggling with inspiration for the last few months with this challenge so I've decided to have a little break from it. But I am going to be taking part in another weekly challenge from next week so hopefully that will get me out of my challenge rut! Anyway enough of my rambling..

Read on after the jump to see what I came up with.

Watercolour Roses

Hello my loves. It's the weekend! I am pampering myself this morning and I am going for a shopping trip this afternoon, followed by a night out! A busy day for me :).

I have some new floral nail art to show you today. I do love a good floral nail, the possibilities are endless with flowers :). Today I have gone for a rose theme which was inspired by this image.

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June Tri Polish Challenge: Turquoise, Coral and Nude.

Hello my lovelies. I hope you're all well today. I am currently trying to hide from all this pollen that's making me itchy and sneezey!

I have my offering for the Tri Polish Challenge this week to show you today. I found this week quite hard, I was struggling with what to do with the colours (a problem I have been having a lot lately with TPC). But I came up with something in the end :).

Read on after the jump to see what I did.

Barry M Matte Collection Swatches

Hello ladies. It's the weekend! I spent my morning at work, but I'm home now so my weekend starts here.

It's not often I buy a complete collection, but when I saw Barry M's new matte collection for summer 2014 I just knew I had to try them all! So I ordered them and I am going to show you my swatches of them today.

Read on after the jump to see my swatches.

Pick A Polish: Barry M - Majesty

Hi everyone. I hope you are all well. I have a case of the Monday blues today, I want another 3 day weekend!

In an attempt to brighten up your Monday I have this week's Pick A Polish to show you today. This week I have been using Barry M - Majesty which is one of their textured glitter polishes from their Royal collection.

Read on after the jump to see this polish.

May Tri Polish Challenge: Purple, Red and Green

Hi everyone. I hope everyone has had a lovely Tuesday. I came home from work early and spent my afternoon asleep on the sofa.. damn migraine! But I am feeling a bit better now after my nap.

I have the final post for May's Tri Polish Challenge to show you today.. I have to say I am glad this month is finished, these colours just aren't my thing. However, I have this week FINALLY come up with a design that I was happy with, I got there in the end lol.

Read on after the jump to see what I came up with.