52 Week Pick & Mix Challenge: Fire/Three Shades of Green or Yellow

Hello lovelies. How is everyone?

This week for the 52 Week Challenge the themes are fire and three shades of green/yellow. I skipped the green part this week, but I've managed to incorporate the fire and I've used three different yellows.

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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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52 Week Pick & Mix Challenge: Camouflage and Dark Green

Hello loves. How are you all?

This week's themes for the 52 week challenge are camouflage and dark green. I feel like all I have done is stamping lately - so it was a nice change to do a non stamped manicure for today's post. This theme was a bit of a no brainer; camo with some dark green in it (how do I come up with these ideas?!). 

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Purple and Gold Skittlette

Hi loves. Happy Saturday! My bad week hasn't been getting much better since I posted yesterday, I think hibernation may be my only option!

I have some last minute nails to show you today - it's rare that I do some nails and post them straight away but that is what I'm doing today. For some reason I managed to mess up my blog scheduling and overlooked today's post. I was planning on doing them last night but I had a power cut in my flat - doing my nails in the dark probably wouldn't have gone too well! So I have done a rush job this morning.. I think the idea behind these could work but, like a lot of things to do with this post, they didn't completely go to plan either! 

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Blood Drip Nails

Hello loves. I hope your weekend's are all going great so far! I have spent my morning planning a weekend away for my 21st birthday so I'm feeling very excited!

I've done some more Halloween nail art for you today - blood nails! As strange as it may be, I actually quite enjoy dressing up like a zombie and dousing myself in fake blood. Unfortunately I don't have a Halloween event to go to this year as an excuse to do this to myself, so I have settled for some bloody nails instead. 

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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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Distressed Chevrons

Hi everyone. How are you all? I have had a very long day today, but I have a day off tomorrow so I am looking forward to that.

I have a manicure to show you today which involved the melding together of two techniques (I felt like pushing the boat out you see lol). I came across this image online and I thought I could recreate it with a mixture of the dry brushing technique and some chevron stickers.. so that is what I did :).

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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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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). 

Read on after the jump for more.

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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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.

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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Nail Stickrs Review and Tutorial.

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Hello loves. It's nearly Friday! 

Today I have a review for an exciting new brand called Nail Stickrs to show you. Nail Stickrs offer a range of nail stencils, in a number of different designs and I was really excited when I saw the lovely owner Monique was looking for people to try them. I have been sent a few different types to try, but today I am going to show you the V shaped stencils and I have also done a tutorial :).

Read on after the jump for more.

Watermelon Gradient Nails and Tutorial.

Hello lovelies. It's FRIDAY!! I hope you all have lovely weekends ahead of you. I am working tomorrow morning to get some extra dough for my holiday, so I'm not as excited for the weekend today as I normally would be.

Today I have another manicure to show you which was inspired by some clothes I found online.. this time a watermelon themed dress! (I told you I'd be posting lots of things like this :P). This time I have also done a tutorial to go with it. 

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Florals and Stripes

Hello everyone. I hope you're all having a good week. I have been a busy bee this week.

Today I have some nails to show you which I was inspired to do whilst looking at clothes on the internet. I found quite a lot of inspiration so be prepared to see quite a few of these posts!

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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.

Copycat Saturday - Neutral Floral.

Hello my loves. Happy Saturday :) I am going on a nail polish hunt for Barry M's new limited edition shade today, it looks so gorgeous I need it!

Today I have this week's Copycat Saturday manicure to show you. This will be my last Copycat Saturday for a while, I have been struggling with inspiration lately and I'm thinking it might be because most of my manicures for the blog are done to a theme. So I've decided to relax my schedule a bit and now I'll have every weekend to post whatever I like :) (although I'm sure I'll still do plenty of posts inspired by other's designs anyway). 

Anyway... this week I was inspired by this gorgeous design by maya_tempaku on instagram. I loved the colours in this design, although it may be a bit more appropriate for autumn not spring. But I shall rebel against seasonally stereotypical colours for this post.

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Pick A Polish: Sally Hansen - Fairy Teal

Hi guys. Happy Monday! I have recovered from my illness now so I have had a busy day catching up at work.

I have some pretty exciting nail art for you today (well I think so anyway) in the form of this week's Pick A Polish. This week it was the turn of Sally Hansen - Fairy Teal.

To see what I came up with read on after the jump.

Copycat Saturday - Tribal Triangles.

Hi everyone. It's the weekend! I hope you're all having a good one so far. I've had a fairly productive day so far which makes a change haha!

So it's time for Copycat Saturday, this week I went with a design that I have been meaning to recreate for ages! The design in question is this gorgeous tribal manicure by The Lacquerologist. This manicure has always stuck in my head since she posted it about 6 months ago.. I like how it is quite simple compared to most tribal designs, but it is still very striking :).

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Week Of Love Valentines Nail Art Challenge - Roses

Hi everyone. I hope you are all well. I nearly forgot to post this today, I got carried away swatching and suddenly remembered I hadn't published this.. but luckily I remembered :).

We are half way through the Week Of Love and today's theme is roses. I haven't done a rose manicure in ages so I was really excited to have another go at them. 

To see what I came up with read on after the jump.