52 Week Pick & Mix Challenge: Fishbraid/Non Glitter Topper

Hello lovely ladies. It's the weekend!!! I'm off out with the girls tonight which I am looking forward to :). 

I'm a bit late with this week's 52 Week Challenge, I usually post them on a Tuesday but I'm just sneaking it in before the deadline! I have to admit I struggled with this theme, I did three different manicures before I had one I was happy with - hence why I'm a bit late. In the end though, I was very happy with the outcome. 

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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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Graveyard Nails

Hello loves. Happy Halloween!

I've got my final Halloween design of the year to show you today. I have been wanting to do some graveyard nails for ages... l intended to last Halloween and never got round to it. This year I promised myself that I would do some and when I saw these nails by the lovely Sarah of Penny Pinching Polish I knew immediately I wanted to do something similar. I'm so glad I finally got these done!

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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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Orange and Black Cobwebs

Hello lovelies. I hope you've all had a lovely day. The weather is very stormy where I live today so I am going to spend my evening hibernating in my dressing gown :). 

I have another Halloween inspired design to show you today. I did some cobweb nail art last year and really liked them, so I thought I would do them again this year but mix the colours up. I was going to add in a spider, but I hate the things so I decided to leave it off! I also want to apologise for the tip wear in these photos... I was convinced I had taken photos of these when I did them and went to edit them a couple of days later and found I hadn't actually take any photos at all (doh!) luckily I hadn't removed this nail art yet!

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Freehand Triangles with Smitten Polish - Antiquing

Hello lovelies. How are we all?

I've got another manicure which was inspired by someone else today (I will do some of my own designs soon I promise!). This time I was inspired by this design by @ramydoesnails on Instagram. Not only is this a gorgeous design, I thought it would be great to practice freehanding straight lines too.

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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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Pick A Polish: China Glaze - Keepin' It Teal

Hi loves. I hope Monday has treated you well. I went with my boyfriend to watch him do a track day after work today, so my evening has consisted of standing in the rain whilst my boyfriend got to drive fast cars round a track.. I think he needs to take me polish shopping now :). 

It's time for Pick A Polish! This week I have been playing with China Glaze - Keepin' It Teal. This was one of China Glaze's summer 2013 releases and I got it when it first came out, used it once or twice.. and since then it's sat in my helmer. This is one of the reasons why I love doing this series so much, it forces me to use the more neglected polishes in my collection. 

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Pick A Polish: Freckles Polish - Wild Flower Meadow

Hi loves. How are you? Despite the dreary weather here today I am in quite a good mood :).

For Pick A Polish this week I will be showing you Freckles Polish - Wild Flower Meadow. I've featured this on the blog a few times before, I think it has to be one of my favourite glitters. This is more of a spring polish for me, but I have tried to make it more autumn appropriate for this post.

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Monthly Charity Nail Art Challenge - Hospices/Hospitals

Hello lovely people. It's nearly Friday! This week has actually gone quite quickly for a first week back after my holiday.

I have this months Charity Nail Art Challenge offering to show you today. This month the theme is hospices and hospitals and I have decided to go with Great Ormond Street Hospital. For those of you who might not know, Great Ormond Street is a hospital in London which specializes in caring for seriously ill children - you can't get a much better cause than that in my opinion!

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Coral Roses

Hi everyone. I hope you've all had a lovely day.

I have some floral nails to show you today, I feel like I haven't done floral nails in forever (which is probably only a few weeks in reality) so I thought it was high time I did some more. I just got a few new OPI polishes from their Nordic collection so I wanted to use one of them too. 

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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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