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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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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Pick A Polish: Models Own - Flip Flop

Hello lovelies. Happy Monday! Just two more days at work til Christmas now, we're nearly there! 

I have a very unseasonal polish to show you for this week's Pick A Polish; Models Own - Flip Flop. I felt a bit odd wearing neon in December, but I always wanted to choose the polishes for these posts at random so neon it was! 

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Christmas Candy Canes

Hello my lovelies. Happy Saturday!

Christmas is just around the corner now (in case you hadn't already noticed) so I have some candy cane inspired nails for you today. I've seen lots of similar designs to this floating around the internet recently so I decided to give it a go myself. 

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Gingerbread Man!

Hello loves. How are we all? I'm having a blog catch up day today and I'm off out for Christmas drinks with work tonight. 

I have some more Christmas inspired nail art today.. a cute little gingerbread man! I followed this tutorial by @judyrox on Instagram. 

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52 Week Pick & Mix Challenge: Domestic Animals/Three Shades of Blue

Hello everyone. How are we all? 

Today I will be showing you this week's 52 Week Challenge which is domestic animals and three shades of blue. If you're a regular reader you will probably know what I am about to say... combining these themes was really hard! In the end I settled on following this tutorial and using three blues. 

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Fashion Inspired - Yellow, Black and White Distressed Nail Art

Hi everyone. I hope you all had a great Halloween, I didn't do much but I am off to Alton Towers tomorrow so I am looking forward to that!

I have a Fashion Inspired post for you today, I haven't done one of these in ages! I've had a picture of this dress saved for probably about a year now and I've finally got round to recreating it on my nails.

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52 Week Pick & Mix Challenge - 60s/Matte or Texture

Hello my loves. It's nearly Friday! 

I have this weeks installment of the 52 week challenge for you today; the themes this week are 60s and matte or texture. I didn't find these themes as easy as the previous two - gone are the days of just doing a gradient! 

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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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Retro Waves

Hi everyone. This is my penultimate scheduled post, I will be flying home on Thursday - hoping feeling nicely rested and much more tanned. 

Recently I have been feeling a bit uninspired nail art wise, sometimes it's hard to keep up with the pace of making five new designs a week. So I took to the internet on a mission to find some inspiration and I came across this set of patterns. I loved all of them - so I might have to recreate them all - but I went for the pattern on the top left first of all.

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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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Fingerfood's Theme Buffet - Inspired by Music

Hi guys. How are you all? I am glad it's the weekend (I think I say this every Friday).

The theme for Fingerfood's Theme Buffet this week is music.. and I have gone for the most loose interpretation on the theme possible haha! I browsed Youtube looking at lots of different music videos until something in one of them inspired me, a lot of music videos are very boring nowadays lol. Eventually I came across the video for Sing by Ed Sheeran and I liked the blue stripey pattern that is in the background at times so I went with that for my manicure (I told you it was a loose interpretation!).

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Sheer Tint Chevrons

Hi lovelies. It's nearly Friday! Plus I go on holiday in a week today so I am starting to get excited.

I've finally picked up the OPI Sheer Tints, I had been trying to decide whether I needed them for ages - but I saw them going pretty cheap on a Facebook group so I thought why not! Obviously I needed to use them, even though I may be jumping on the band wagon a few months late. I came across this design by @lemmingspolish on instagram and decided to give that a go. 

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Pick A Polish: Models Own - Coral Glaze

Hi loves. I hope you've all had lovely Mondays. I have felt a bit under the weather today, so I am glad it's a bank holiday so I can hibernate in my flat. The weather is rubbish here so I'm not missing much outside!

For Pick A Polish this week I shall be showing you Models Own - Coral Glaze. This was released earlier in the year as part of Models Own's Hypergel line which are designed to be gel effect polishes (much like the Gelly's from Barry M). I've used this colour in nail art before but I haven't used it on it's own yet, so I was excited to give this a go.

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Monthly Charity Nail Art Challenge - Human Rights

Hello everyone. Woohoo it's Saturday! I hope you all have nice things planned. I am having a blog day (again haha), but I still have two more days off after this anyway :).

Recently I came across this Monthly Charity Nail Art Challenge run by Sassy Little Nails in a Facebook group, which I thought was a really great idea to raise awareness for different charities. It's only one post a month so it should be pretty easy for me to keep up with too. This month the theme is human rights, which is a pretty current topic right now with all the conflict going on all over the world. The charity I went for was Unicef which is a children's charity, as I think children are often the most innocent victims of all this conflict - I can't even imagine what it's like growing up in a war zone so the work Unicef does is definitely very important.

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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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Pink Holo Flowers

Hello lovelies. It's almost Friday, I am looking forward to the weekend (as usual).

I have some more girly nail art inspired by someone else to show you today. This time I have stolen this design by Vic and Her Nails, because I clearly can't think of my own designs at the moment. But it's pretty and pink so that makes everything okay ;).

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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 - Inspired by Fabric/Clothing.

Hi everyone. Thank god it's Friday! I hope you all have nice weekends planned. I came home from work early today as I am still feeling ill, I'm hoping I can shake this illness off soon!

I have this week's Fingerfood's Theme Buffet to show you today and the theme this week is inspired by fabric/clothing. I was going to do another fashion inspired post, since I have been loving them lately.. but I stumbled across this duvet and decided I wanted to do that instead. It's pretty right?! I might have to get it for my bed :P.

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