2014 Round Up - Your Favourites

Hello everyone. I can't believe it's New Years Eve already, where the hell has 2014 gone?! I'm off to a friends tonight to see the new year in, I hope you all have lovely things planned too. 

So as this year is coming to a close, I thought I would do a little round up of what has happened on Vicky Loves Nails in 2014. Today I will be going through some of my most popular posts, and tomorrow I'm going to be showing you my personal favourites. I have posted 268 posts this year (including this one) so I had plenty of posts to go through! 

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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: Avon - Midnight Green

Hello my loves. How is everyone? I went sales shopping today and I didn't buy any nail polish, I think there might be something wrong with me!

It's time for this week's Pick A Polish, this time in the form of Avon - Midnight Green. This is an older polish in my stash that I do tend to neglect, but boy is it pretty!

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MoYou Nails Review - Plate 126

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Hi everyone. I hope you're all having a lovely Saturday. Mine has been spent doing odd jobs around my flat and nail painting :). 

I have my penultimate review for MoYou Nails for you today, this time for plate 126. This is more of a summery style plate in my opinion, but it still has some lovely images.

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Teal and Gold Glitter Tips

Hello lovelies. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I had a lovely day and ate way too much as usual :). 

I've been slacking on my nails lately... I guess life has just got in the way a bit so I have some simple nail art for you today.

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52 Week Pick & Mix Challenge - Distressed/Grey

Hi everyone. How are we all? 

I've got another 52 Week Challenge post for you today, this week the themes are distressed and grey. I probably could have been more creative with this theme, but I decided just to do exactly what the theme says - grey, distressed nails. 

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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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MoYou Nails Review - Plate 121

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Hi everyone. It's FRIDAY! I hope you've all had lovely weeks and have great weekends ahead of you. My day at work was pretty quiet, and I'm now having a quiet night in on my sofa (which happens all too often lately). 

I have a review of plate 121 from MoYou Nails to show you today. This could be quite a good festive plate, with the bows - but I decided to go with a purple colour scheme instead.

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A2Z - Holographic

Hi everyone. Happy Thursday.. it's a week til Christmas! I can't believe it has come around so quickly! 

I have been looking forward to this A2Z theme since the start of the series - HOLOGRAPHIC!!! As I'm sure most of you know by now, holo is a true love of mine. I got my first CbL holo a little while back and haven't had a chance to use it yet, so today was the day!

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52 Week Pick & Mix Challenge: Crinkly Tape and Glitter Topper

Hello lovelies. How are you all? 

I've got this week's 52 Week Challenge prompt for you today. This week the themes are crinkly tape and glitter topper. I'm not actually sure what crinkly tape is supposed to be, even google didn't shed much light on the situation - so I just decided to go with chevrons instead (they are kind of crinkly). 

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Pick A Polish: Kelly Brook - Unnamed Glitter

Hi everyone. Happy Monday! I'm still suffering a bit from the weekend, an early night for me tonight I think!

For Pick A Polish this week I will be showing you a glitter by Kelly Brook which doesn't appear to have a name. I got this back in the summer along with another polish which I had planned to wear on holiday. Unfortunately the formula on both the polishes were awful, so I took it straight off and they have sat in my helmer since... until now!

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Share The Love Sunday

Hello lovelies. How have your weekends been? I had a great night out last night, but I am definitely feeling the effects today... I didn't get out of bed until 3pm, oopsie!

It's time for Share The Love Sunday again, this week I have five fabulously festive designs to show you!

Click below to see what I picked. 

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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MoYou Nails Review - Plate 120

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Hi everyone. It's the weeekend! I've had a pretty busy day today and I've only just had time to sit down and post this.

I have a review for plate 120 from MoYou Nails to show you today and some more Christmas nail art! 

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A2Z - Gold

Hi lovelies. How are we all? I can't believe its Thursday already, this week has gone so quickly!

For A2Z this week we are on G for Gold. I'm liking all the gold themed challenges this week, they are making me feel even more Christmassy! 

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52 Week Pick & Mix Challenge: Chevrons/Red & Gold.

Hello everyone. I hope you're all well. I've had another busy day and I'm glad to be home snuggled up on my sofa :). 

I've been looking forward to this weeks themes for the 52 week challenge for a while. This week they are red and gold and chevrons. Not only are chevrons nice and easy to do, red and gold makes me feel rather festive so I was excited to get going on this one. 

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Pick A Polish: Ethereal Lacquer - Violet Frost (plus Born Pretty Store plate BP14 review)

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Hello lovelies. How have your Mondays been? Mine has been pretty busy but work went quite quickly so it's not so bad!

I've got another two in one post today. I'll be showing you Ethereal Lacquer - Violet Frost for Pick A Polish along with a review for plate BP14 from Born Pretty Store. I've swatched this polish on the blog once before, but this was my first time wearing it as a full manicure. This happens way too often with my stash!

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Share The Love Sunday

Hello lovelies. 

I've got five amazing manicures to show you this week - let's get straight into it!

Click below to see my picks. 

Giveaway Winner - Updated

Hello loves.

Just a quick post to let you all know that I have chosen another winner for my giveaway, as the first one I chose didn't reply to my email. The lucky winner this time is Vicki S (good name lol) - so if that's you make sure you reply to my email to claim your prizes. If I don't have a response within a week I will pick another winner. 

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Christmas Watermarble

Hello loves. How are you all? I've been at work this morning and I'm going go karting later which should be fun. 

I've been wanting to have another go at a watermarble for a while now. It's a technique which is still a struggle for me, but I really want to master it as I love how they look! I finally got a chance to sit down and do one last week, and since I'm starting to feel all festive I figured I would go with a Christmas colour scheme. 

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MoYou Nails Review - Plate 127

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Hi everyone. It's Friday!

I've got another review for MoYou Nails today, this time for plate 127. Since we're now well on our way to Christmas I figured it's about time to start my wintry and festive designs! So I have the first of those for you today. 

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A2Z - F is for Fashion

Hello everyone. How are you all? 

We're on F for A2Z now and this week the theme is Fashion. After a lot of browsing the internet I settled on recreating this top by Alexander McQueen. It's not something I would ever wear, but I thought it might look nice as a manicure which is the reason I picked it. 

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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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Pick A Polish: A England - Iseult (Plus Born Pretty Store Plate BP19 Review)

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Hello lovelies. I hope Monday is treating you well, mine has been fairly average. 

For Pick A Polish this week I shall be showing you A England - Iseult along with a review for plate BP19 from Born Pretty Store. I believe Iseult was one of my first ever polishes from A England, so it's a fairly old polish in my stash and I've used it a few times in the past.

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We Have A Winner!

Hello everyone.

So my giveaway ended at midnight last night, a big thanks to everyone who entered. The winner has been chosen and contacted - they have a week to get back to me and if not another winner will be chosen. 

I've had a great time running this giveaway, so keep your eyes peeled for more in the future! 

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Share The Love Sunday

Hello lovelies.

It's that time of week again - where I round up my favourite nail art I have come across in the last week.

Click below to see what I chose.

MoYou Nails Review - Plate 111

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Hello everyone. Happy Saturday! I had a lovely birthday yesterday, but I didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night so I'm having a bit of a lazy day today :). Don't forget if you haven't already entered my giveaway it ends at midnight tonight, you can enter here.

Today I have a review for plate 111 from MoYou Nails to show you. This was one of the plates I was less sure I would like before I tried it, but it surprised me and I actually really love the manicure I came up with!

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Silver Holo Sparkles for my Birthday.

Hello everyone. It's my birthday!!! I'm 21 now, so I feel like I should be acting more like an adult, but I don't think I want to ha! 

My main celebrations for my birthday were last weekend, when I went for my weekend away in London. I wanted something outrageously sparkly. I initially planned to do some nail art but once I had done my base I just couldn't put anything over it, it's so pretty!

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A2Z- E is for Elegant (plus Born Pretty Store Review Plate BP02)

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Hello lovely people. I hope you are all well. It's nearly Friday and it's my birthday tomorrow! So I'm a little excitable this afternoon lol. 

I have this week's A2Z and a review for plate BP02 from Born Pretty Store to show you today. E is for elegant and this stamping plate has some lovely lacey patterns, so I thought it would be nice to use for this theme. 

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52 Week Pick & Mix Challenge - Brush Stroke/Favourite Brand

Hello my loves. How are we all? 

I have this week's 52 week challenge post for you today. This week the themes are brush stroke and favourite brand. It was a toss up between Barry M and OPI for my favourite brand, and as I couldn't pick between the two I decided to count up which brand I have the most of and go with that. Turns out I have more OPI so OPI it was! 

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Pick A Polish: Revlon - Emerald City plus Born Pretty Store Plate BP22 Review.

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Hello lovelies. Happy Monday. 

I've got another two in one post for you today. This time Pick A Polish and a review for plate BP22 from Born Pretty Store. The polish I will be showcasing this week is Revlon - Emerald City which is one of their matte suede polishes. This is an untried, I always get excited when untrieds come up for Pick A Polish!

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Share The Love Sunday

Hello loves. I'm back from my weekend in London, I had a lovely time but I am exhausted now!

It's time to take your (and my) mind off the fact that it's nearly Monday, as I have my weekly round up of the amazing nail art I have been loving this week. 

Click below to see this week's picks. 

1k Facebook Giveaway!

Hi guys.

Yes you read that right, I've just hit 1000 likes on my Facebook page! I can't believe that there are over 1000 people out there that have taken the time to like my little page, it makes me feel so honoured! To say a huge thank you to everyone who has liked my Facebook page I've put together a little giveaway. 

This giveaway is open internationally but if you are under 18 you will need your parents permission to enter. You must like my Facebook page to be eligible to win which you can find here, all the other options aren't compulsory but you can get extra entries by doing them. The giveaway will run until next Saturday (29th November 2014) at midnight and the winner will be announced soon after. You need to enter using the rafflecopter app below, where all the prizes and full t&cs can also be found. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me on vickylovesnails@gmail.com or via any of my social media, I will reply as soon as I can. 

Good luck everyone!

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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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MoYou Nails Review - Plate 117.

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Hello lovely people. It's FRRIIDAAYYY! Can you tell I'm excited?! I'm going to be partying it up in London tomorrow and I can't wait!

I have another review for MoYou Nails to show you today, this time for plate 117. This plate has all french tip images, in a variety of patterns and designs. This was one of the plates I was least sure about when I was choosing plates to review, but I was very pleasantly surprised when I tried it. 

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A2Z - D is for Dark.

Hello beauties. It's nearly Friday!! I'm off on a girls weekend away in London on Saturday for my birthday, so I'm even more excited for the weekend than I am normally.

This week the theme for A2Z is dark. I was quite looking forward to this theme, I've been enjoying my dark wintry colours lately which I so often neglect in my stash. It was nice to let one of my lesser used babies out to play today (yes, my polishes are my babies). 

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52 Week Pick & Mix Challenge - Books/Brown.

Hi everyone. I hope you're all well.

This week's themes for the 52 week challenge are books and brown - when I first saw this theme I thought it was going to be one of the hardest themes of the whole challenge. I'm not really a brown kinda gal, and I don't read all that much either (I'm always way too busy blogging). But inspiration struck me last week when I remembered that I had seen these burnt newspaper nails. Newspapers are sort of like books right?! For purposes of this challenge, I am saying they are ;).

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Pick A Polish: OPI - Let's Do Anything We Want (Plus a Born Pretty Store Stamping Plate Review).

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Hello everyone. How have your Monday's been? 

I have a two in one post for you today - I have a feeling this may be the first of many as I have so many stamping plates I need to review lol. I am combining Pick A Polish and a review of plate BP05 from Born Pretty Store. The polish this week for PAP is OPI - Let's Do Anything We Want which I have never used before, so that's another untried off the list!

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Share The Love Sunday

Hi loves.

It's time for Share The Love Sunday again, lets get straight into it!

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Born Pretty Store Review - Stamping Plate BP10

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Hello lovelies. I hope your weekends are going well. I've been out for lunch with my parents and boyfriend today, now I'm catching up on blog stuff since I haven't got much done whilst I've been ill this week!

Today I have a stamping plate (BP10) from Born Pretty Store to show you today. I've got quite a few plates to review for you (I'll be doing a lot of stamping as I have all my MoYou plates to review too), but this is the one I liked the look of most, so that is why I chose to show it to you first. 

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MoYou Nails Review - Plate 124

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Hello lovelies. It's Friday!! I've finally started feeling a bit less ill this afternoon, so fingers crossed all my plans for the weekend can still go ahead!

I have my next review for MoYou Nails to show you today. This time for plate 124 which has a mixture of floral images, mostly full nail ones. Florals are my favourite so I was really excited to try this plate!

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A2Z - C is for Copycat

Hi loves. I hope your week's are going well. I am still ill, I just can't seem to shake this bug off, I'm supposed to be going to a wedding tomorrow so I'm hoping I'll make some kind of miraculous recovery over night (not likely). 

It's time for this week's A2Z post, this week C is for copycat. I decided to copy a design from someone else and I went with these gorgeous nails by @deanne29 on Instagram. This is more of a summery design, but I loved it so much I thought I'd recreate it anyway!

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52 Week Pick & Mix Challenge - Wild Animals/Yellow

Hello lovelies. How have your Tuesday's been? I'm still unwell, I went into work for a few hours but had to come home early.. fingers crossed I can make a whole day tomorrow.

I have this week's prompt for the 52 week challenge for you today - I don't believe we're on week 7 already! This weeks themes are wild animals and yellow. I actually didn't find combining these themes too hard at all - I see yellow as quite a wild colour anyway! 

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Pick A Polish: Barry M - Blueberry

Hi everyone. How are your Monday's going? I've been off work today, I've been feeling terrible! I'm starting to feel a bit better now, so hopefully I'll be back in action tomorrow. 

For Pick A Polish today I will be showing you Barry M - Blueberry. This is another one of their Gelly polishes which I love! This is one of my go to blues, so I have used it a fair amount before. 

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Share The Love Sunday

Hello everyone. I hope you have all had lovely weekends - most of mine has been spent in bed with the lurgy.

I've been feeling really under the weather this week, I've spent much more time sleeping than I have looking at blogs. So all my picks for this week's Share The Love Sunday I came across on Instagram. IG is becoming my go to source for nail art inspiration, it's so easy to flick through loads of photos in minutes and there are thousands of talented artists posting there. 

Click below to see my picks.

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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MoYou Nails Review - Plate 128

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Hello my loves. Thank god it's Friday!!! I've not had a very good week this week, lots of silly little things have kept going wrong so I am very glad its the weekend. It means I can hibernate until Monday! Lol. 

Anyway, today I have another review for MoYou Nails today. This time I will be showing you plate 128 which has four full nail images and one smaller image. 

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A2Z - B is for Bold

Hi everyone. How are we all? 

I'm going to be showing you my manicure for B for A2Z today. B is for bold and when I think bold I think red, so that is what I went for. I don't wear red a huge amount but I usually love it when I do, today is no exception!

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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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Pick A Polish: OPI - Definite Moust Have

Hello everyone. I hope you are all well. I had a lovely day out at Alton Towers yesterday but didn't get back til late last night. I get up for work at 5am so I am definitely feeling it today!

For Pick A Polish this Monday I will be showing you OPI - Definite Moust Have. I have loads and loads of pinks, but this one has to be one of my favourite ones. Despite this I don't really use it very often, so it was fun to have another play with it. 

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Share The Love Sunday

Hello loves. I hope you've all had great weekends! This is a scheduled post as I'm off at Alton Towers today, so I probably won't be back until quite late tonight and I'm sure I'll be straight off to bed! 

I have my second installment of my Share The Love Sunday series. I got some lovely comments from people last week via social media, I'm really glad people like the idea of these posts. I'm really enjoying putting these posts together, and I have some cracking manicures to show you today!

Click below to see what I chose.