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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Pick A Polish: Freckles Polish - Just As You Are.

Hello my loves.

It's time for Pick A Polish again, this week I have another UK indie polish to show - Freckles Polish - Just As You Are. I have swatched this on the blog before but haven't worn it as a full manicure until now so it was nice to get to use it properly.

To see this polish read on after the jump.

MoYou Nails Review

Provided for review*

Hello my lovelies. I hope you are all having a nice weekend so far. I am currently waiting for the postman to bring me some nail mail!

I have some lovely stamping goodies from MoYou Nails to show you today. Now I am a newbie when it comes to stamping, I've read a lot about it but I have only tried it a handful of times so I was excited to give it another try. I figured that if a beginner like me can create a nice manicure using these products then anyone can! I was sent two image plates, a stamper, a scraper and a polish. 

Read on after to jump to see what I thought.

Guest Post @ Nail Parade.

Hello loves.

I'm guest posting over at Nail Parade today whilst the lovely Rachel prepares for her exams. Head on over here to see my post and make sure you check out Rachel's lovely blog in the mean time :).

Speak to you all soon. 

Copycat Saturday: Scattered Flowers and Hearts.

Hi everyone. How's your weekend going? I have had a very lazy day today, but I'm looking forward to a trip to London tomorrow.

For this week's Copycat Saturday design I decided to go with this design by fellow British blogger One Nail To Rule Them All. I was feeling something girly and pretty so figured  this would fit well.

For full details on this manicure click below.

Copycat Saturday: Red and Gold Hearts.

Hi everyone.

I have the first of two posts for you today, up first is this week's Copycat Saturday. I was still feeling in the Valentines spirit after the Week of Love Challenge so I decided to recreate this design which is by esnail. 

For full details please click below.

Week Of Love Valentines Challenge - Freestyle/Recreate Another's

Hi everyone. Happy Valentines Day! I have had a very busy morning this morning but now I am waiting for my boyfriend to come home so we can spend the rest of the day together :).

It's the last day of the challenge, I am kinda sad it's over! I love taking part in these challenges. The last theme is freestyle/recreate another's, I decided to go with the latter and recreate this design by b_jessica_3 on instagram. If you aren't already following her go check her out as her nails are gorgeous!

To see my version of this design read on after the jump.

Week Of Love Valentines Challenge - Hearts.

Hello loves. How are you all? A bit of a late post from me today since I have been super busy.

Its day four of the Week Of Love and today's theme is hearts. I took to the internet to search for inspiration for this design and came across this picture which I thought was rather cute.

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

Week Of Love Valentines Nail Art Challenge - Candy Heart Sayings.

Hello everyone. How are you all? I am glad to be home this evening, I don't like Mondays!

This week I am taking part in the Week Of Love Valentines Nail Art Challenge, so everyday until Friday I shall be posting Valentines themed manicures. I'm really excited to show you what I have come up with.

The first theme is Candy Heart Sayings. Click below to see what I came up with.

Pick A Polish: Avon - Rose Quartz

Hello lovelies. 

Today I have this weeks instalment of Pick A Polish, this week was the turn of Avon - Rose Quartz. This is a pretty old polish in my collection and I haven't used it for ages. To be honest I don't love it, which is probably why I haven't used it in so long.

I think the reason I have used a fair bit out of the bottle is because it needs so many coats!

I used 4 coats for this swatch, it was very sheer. In real life I still had some visible nail line, but you can't really see this in the photos. It is a pretty colour however, and has a nice shimmer when the light hits it. 

Onto the nail art...

I used Rose Quartz as my base... obviously.

I then freehanded the pattern with a detail brush and W7 - Black.

I am not 100% sure what the pattern is meant to be inside the hearts, I just kinda painted it. It sort of reminds me of roses, in an abstract kind of way.

I was fairly pleased with these. They aren't the best thing I have ever done, but I don't think they are bad. As you can probably tell I am still a bit undecided about this one!

What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments.

Thanks for looking.