A2Z: K is for Kitschy.

Hi everyone. It's nearly Friday! I am quite looking forward to my weekend now :). 

This week for A2Z we had a choice between 'kitchen sink' and 'kitschy'... I decided to go for kitschy on this one. I'm not 100% sure I've quite got kitschy down to a tee, but I tried! 

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52 Week Pick & Mix Challenge: Pink, Aqua & Dotting Tools.

Hello my loves. How are we all? I've had a bit of an odd day today, the electricity went off at work so I got sent home early - so not very productive!

I've got this week's 52 Week Challenge post for you today, this week the themes are pink, aqua and dotting tools. This one was fairly straight forward... a pink and aqua dotticure. 

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Pick A Polish: Tara's Talons - Cherry Blossom

Hello lovelies. How are you all? It was back to work for me today, but to be quite honest I was a bit bored of sitting at home!

Monday means Pick A Polish and this week I will be showing you Tara's Talons - Cherry Blossom. I got this from one of Tara's spring collections last year and I have used it a few times since, which is quite rare for me!

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52 Week Pick & Mix Challenge - Dots & Three Shades of Purple.

Hi lovelies. How are you all? 

The themes for this week's 52 Week Challenge are dots and three shades of purple. I love dots and I love purple, so I had an idea of what this manicure would turn out like in my head for a while. But when it came to sitting down and doing it, I felt like doing a watermarble - so I changed all my plans and I ended up with something completely different (living life on the edge, I know!). 

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Blue and Gold Skittle

Hello lovelies. This is a scheduled post as I'll be living it up in London this weekend to celebrate my 21st! 

I went to a wedding last weekend, so I wanted some simple nail art that I could do easily on both hands. I went for a skittle style design with a blue and gold colour scheme, which matched the outfit that I was wearing. 

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52 Week Pick & Mix Challenge - 70s/ Grey and Colour

Hi loves. How are we all? It's nearly Friday and I am very much looking forward to the weekend!

The two themes for the 52 Week Challenge this week are 70s and grey and colour. At first I was a bit stumped as to how to combine these two themes together... I generally think of bright and garish colours when I think of the 1970s and definitely not grey. In the end I took loose inspiration from the third image down here, swapping out the brown for a grey. 

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Pick A Polish: OPI - In The Cable Carpool Lane

Hi everyone. Happy Monday! I did a ten hour shift at work today and I am zonked, I don't know how people do that much work everyday haha! I think I'll stick to my normal shifts from now on. 

For Pick A Polish this week I shall be showing you OPI - In The Cable Carpool Lane. This is from their 2013 San Francisco collection and it is a great autumn colour in my opinion - it's one of my go to's for this season.

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Fingerfood's Theme Buffet - Autumn

Hello lovelies. Happy Friday! 

I have this week's Theme Buffet to show you today, and this will be the last Theme Buffet post for a while unfortunately. Samantha aka Fingerfood Nails is putting the challenge on hold for a few months but there will be a fresh new start in the new year! I've really enjoyed taking part in this challenge so I will miss these weekly posts over the next few months but I'm excited to see what will come next year. This week's theme is autumn and the first thing I think of when I think autumn is tree's and all the gorgeous colours of autumn leaves.. so that is what I went with.

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Fingerfood's Theme Buffet - Fruit and Veg

Hello lovelies. It's Friday! I've had the day off work today and I went to Thorpe Park with some friends, I had a lovely time but now I need to put my feet up :).

I have this week's Theme Buffet to show you today - the theme this time is fruit and veg. I have been loving fruit themed manicures this year, I think they have been a bit of a trend this summer. So obviously I wanted to go with the fruit side of the theme but I wanted to go for something a little more obscure than what I have done previously. In the end I settled on a papaya - I've never actually eaten one but I thought it would look good on my nails.

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Matte Purple Dotticure

Hello lovelies. This is my final scheduled post, I'll be spending the day travelling home today so nothing very exciting.

I have a dotticure to show you today. I don't do them that often but I had the sudden urge to have dotty nails so these are what I ended up with!

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Colour Block Leaves

Hello lovelies. I hope you are all having a lovely weekend, this is another scheduled post. Hopefully I am starting to build up my tan by now!

Today I have some autumn-y, leafy nails to show you. I decided to try and be a bit unique with my leaves and do a colour clock type design, I have to admit it looked a lot better in my head :P.

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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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Fingerfood's Theme Buffet - Skittle.

Hello everyone. Thank god it's Friday, I feel like this week has lasted forever and it is sooo hot today!

I have this week's Fingerfood's Theme Buffet post to show you today. My last post in this challenge I posted in the wrong week... oops! I didn't post one last week so I should hopefully have the right week now ;) haha. Today the theme is skittle, which means a different colour/pattern on each nail. Skittles are not something I wear that often so this prompt challenged me a bit (I guess that's the idea of a challenge though).

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Life In Lacquers Nail Art Challenge - Dots.

Hello loves. Happy Monday, it was back to work and reality for me today :( booo! Roll on my next holiday.

Today I have the fourth theme for Life In Lacquer's Nail Art Challenge to show you, today the theme is dots. I often overlook dotticures as I like to challenge myself a bit more with my nail art a lot of the time. However you can get some really cool effects with dots so I was excited for this post. 

Read on after the jump.

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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June Tri Polish Challenge: Turquoise, Coral and Nude.

Provided for review*

Hi everyone. I hope you're all having a good day. I am having a very unproductive day today lol.

I have this week's Tri Polish Challenge post to show you today. I did kind of cheat a bit.. I think my turquoise is more of a green (especially in it's warm state) but I'm sure you can forgive me this once. I did struggle with inspiration for this again, I have been having that problem a lot lately with this challenge! So in the end I decided to play with the Nail Stickrs I was sent again.

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Pick A Polish: Nail Lacquer UK - Bloody Fingers

Hi everyone. Happy Monday. I have spent my evening playing bingo and eating cookie dough which is why this post is a bit later this evening.

For Pick A Polish this Monday I have an old UK indie polish to show you. The polish in question is Nail Lacquer UK - Bloody Fingers. Nail Lacquer UK are no longer trading as an indie brand which is a shame because I really loved them! The owner AJ still has a wonderful blog though which you can check out here. I believe Bloody Fingers was a halloween polish, but I never got round to actually using it so this is my first experience with this polish.

Read on after the jump to see this polish.

MoYou Nails Review

Provided for review*

Hello my lovelies. I hope you are all having a nice weekend so far. I am currently waiting for the postman to bring me some nail mail!

I have some lovely stamping goodies from MoYou Nails to show you today. Now I am a newbie when it comes to stamping, I've read a lot about it but I have only tried it a handful of times so I was excited to give it another try. I figured that if a beginner like me can create a nice manicure using these products then anyone can! I was sent two image plates, a stamper, a scraper and a polish. 

Read on after to jump to see what I thought.

Pick A Polish: La Femme Beauty - Cosmos

Hi loves. I hope you have all had a wonderful bank holiday weekend. I spent the day out at Thorpe Park yesterday but the rest of the weekend I have spent relaxing which has been lovely :).

Today I have another Pick A Polish post for you, this week I shall be showing you La Femme Beauty - Cosmos. I was given this polish by a friend for my birthday last year, but this is the first time I have got round to using it. Another untried off the never ending list :).

Read on after the jump for more on this polish.

Matte Dotticure

Hello my lacquered loves! I hope you are all having a lovely weekend. 

I have more matte nails today, I seem to be on a bit of a matte kick lately.. which is weird because I don't usually like it that much! I really loved using OPI - Love.Angel.Music.Baby in my turquoise stone so I wanted to use it again, so that is what I have to show you today.

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