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. 

Read on after the jump for more.

Pick A Polish: Belle Glamour - Emerald City

Hi lovelies. A slightly later post from me today, I took my sister out shopping for her birthday straight after work. It was fun but I am glad to be sat on my sofa now, having a rest :).

I have another Belle Glamour polish to show you for Pick A Polish this week. I did another one of these posts on a Belle Glamour polish just over a month ago here. This time it is Belle Glamour - Emerald City that I will be showing you. I have swatched this one before but never worn it as a full manicure.

Read on after the jump for more.

Life In Lacquer's Nail Art Challenge - Monochrome.

Hello ladies. I hope you all had a lovely Monday, mine was fairly uneventful.

I have the penultimate theme for Life In Lacquer's Nail Art Challenge to show you today. I will be sad when this challenge is over, I've enjoyed taking part! Today's theme is monochrome which I was feeling a bit uninspired by.. and I still can't figure out if I like what I came up with.

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Lightning Storm Nails

Hello loves. Happy Saturday. I want to be out in the sun today but I am still ill :( so I have to stay home and take it easy. I'm hoping if I spend the weekend resting then I will be better by Monday. 

In the UK recently we've had quite a lot of thunder and lightning (more so last week than this week). I hate thunder and lightning - I am a huge baby - but I decided to turn the storms into a positive and do some nails inspired by them instead of hiding from them like I normally do. After all as scary as I find it, lightning can still be very beautiful. 

Read on after the jump for full details.

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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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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Born Pretty Store Review - Stamping Plate QA82

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Hi girls. I'm so glad it's the weekend! I hope you all have nice things planned.

I have a review of a stamping plate from Born Pretty Store to show you today. The stamping plate in question is plate QA82 which has some lovely floral designs on it. If you are a regular reader you will know I don't stamp very much, so this post was somewhat of a learning curve for me - but I really wanted to see what Born Pretty Stores stamping plates are like.

Read on after the jump to see what I thought.

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 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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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.

1000 Followers Instagram Giveaway

Hello loves.

Just a quick post today to let you any of you instagram people know that I have a giveaway over on my instagram to celebrate 1000 followers! It's running for a week from today so go and enter while you can.

Click here to find out how to enter.

Fashion Inspired - Plunge V-Gaps.

Happy Saturday everyone. I'm still recovering from my holiday at the moment, my body clock is all out of sync!

Today I have a fairly old manicure to show you. I'm a bit behind with the blog at the moment not having done my nails in over a week, so I had to use some nails I didn't initially plan on posting for today's post.

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Holiday Nails!

Hello my loves. I'm back! I got home about half past four this morning so I am very very tired and not feeling too great now, but I had an amazing holiday and I want to go back already!

So today I had planned to show you the next Fingerfood's Theme Buffet prompt, however I realised this morning that last week's post should have been this weeks and I got all my prompts mixed up.. so I shall start again from next week lol. Instead I shall show you the nails I wore on holiday and also the nails I did for my friends. 

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Life In Lacquer's Nail Art Challenge - Film or TV Inspired.

Hi lovelies. This is my final scheduled post, I will be home the very early hours of tomorrow morning. A massive thank you to my lovely boyfriend for looking after my blog's Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest for me (well at least he told me he would do it, so I hope I he has stuck to his word lol).

It's the third theme for Life In Lacquers Nail Art Challenge today and this time it is film or TV inspired. I have to admit I wasn't looking forward to this theme, call me weird but I don't watch many films/TV programmes (I'm always too busy painting my nails :P). In the end I decided to go with one of my favourite films from my childhood (who am I kidding, it probably still is one of my favourite films!). Finding Nemo! If you haven't seen this film before, seriously, drop everything now and go and watch it cos it is the best film ever (along with the Lion King). I'm not five years old, I promise!

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Pick A Polish: Nails Inc - Baker Street

Hi everyone. This is yet another scheduled post as I will still be in Morocco when this goes live.

Today I have this week's Pick A Polish to show you, this month it will be pushed back to Tuesdays because of the nail art challenge I am doing. This week's polish is Nails Inc - Baker Street which I was gifted by my cousin when she had a clear out of her polishes and I have to say I do love the colour.

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Life In Lacquers Nail Art Challenge - Pink.

Hi loves. Another scheduled post from me today, I will now be about half way through my holiday.. hopefully a bit less pale!

The second prompt for Life In Lacquers Nail Art Challenge is pink! I don't consider myself an overly girly person, but I do own a lot of pink nail polish for some reason. It is the colour I own the most of so I had plenty of polish to choose from for this theme. 

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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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Fingerfood's Theme Buffet - Patriotic

Hello loves. As this post goes live I will be on my first day in Morocco, hopefully soaking up the sun by the pool or on the beach :). My boyfriend has agreed to be in charge of my social media while I'm away so it should be business as usual here, I just won't be able to reply to comments etc until I get back.

Since I have taken a break from the Tri Polish Challenge I decided I wanted to get involved in another weekly challenge. After having a little scoot around the internet I decided to join in on Fingerfood's Theme Buffet which is a challenge I see a lot of bloggers do. This challenge has a weekly theme set as opposed to just colours so hopefully it will be better for inspiring me :). This week's prompt is patriotic. 

Read on after the jump for more. 

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.

Read on after the jump for more.

Born Pretty Store - Gold Floral Water Decals Review.

Provided for review*

Hello everyone. I hope you're all well. I have had a very stressful day, I am looking forward to my time away more than ever now!

I have another Born Pretty Store review for you today, this time it is for these lovely Gold Floral Water Decals. I love water decals as they're such an easy way to get beautiful nail art, but I don't really use them that often, so I was eager to give these a try.

Read on after the jump to see what I thought.