Pick A Polish: China Glaze - Mimosas Before Manis

Hello loves. So I've been a very bad blogger lately! I apologise for being so absent, I've had a lot going on at home and my nails have taken a bit of a back seat. I'm hoping to slowly ease myself back into things, but I'm not going to pressure myself to post too much at the moment. 

Anyway, I have managed to put together a Pick A Polish for you today and this week I will be showing you China Glaze - Mimosas Before Manis. I've had this polish since it was first released, but I haven't had a whole lot of use out of it to be honest. It is lovely though so I was glad to give it another go. 

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Pick A Polish: ILNP - Electric Carnival

Hello loves. How is everyone?

For today's blog post I have this week's Pick A Polish to show you, featuring one of my newest additions to my stash, which I was very excited to try! The polish in question is ILNP - Electric Carnival which is one of their new ultra chrome flakies. 

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52 Week Pick & Mix Challenge: Fire/Three Shades of Green or Yellow

Hello lovelies. How is everyone?

This week for the 52 Week Challenge the themes are fire and three shades of green/yellow. I skipped the green part this week, but I've managed to incorporate the fire and I've used three different yellows.

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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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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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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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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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A2Z - A is for Angles

Hello everyone. I hope you are all well. I am absolutely knackered today and I'm feeling a bit under the weather... thank god it's Friday tomorrow!

NEW CHALLENGE ALERT!! I have been very excited for today as I am starting another nail art challenge. Previously a group of bloggers collaborated on the AtoZ series, where they posted each week about polishes corresponding to each letter in the alphabet (all the posts can be found here). The lovely Charlie of Pocket Money Polishes very kindly invited me to be part of the second generation of this challenge.. A2Z. The difference this time is that there is a theme each week to create nail art with - which is right up my street (in case you hadn't guessed). We're kicking off the challenge with angles as our theme for A. 

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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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Halloween Slime

Hello beauties. How are we all? 

I've got my first Halloween manicure of the year to show you today. I have had this design in my head ever since I bought Apple Pie by Belle Glamour months ago. I thought this polish was the perfect fit for a Halloween manicure so obviously it had to be the first one I did!

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Mermaid Nails for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

Hello my loves. I completely forgot to post this today, which is why this is later than usual lol. I didn't sleep very well last night which is my excuse :P.

September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and I have my teal manicure to show you today (teal is the colour for ovarian cancer awareness). I am crazy about teal and this is for a great cause too so obviously I had to post something for this. 

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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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Moroccan Skyline.

Hi girlies. How is everyone? I have spent my Saturday so far doing lots of nail art, but hopefully I shall be going out to see the sun after I have posted this. 

I have another manicure inspired by someone else to show you today, maybe I should call this inspiration week as 3 out of my 5 posts have been copied from other people lol. Anyway, I tried to recreate this manicure by m_a_tom on instagram (initially I was going to enter it in a contest she was running but I missed the cut off date, oops!). This design reminded me of my trip to Morocco at the beginning of July so I thought I would give it a go and relive some Moroccan memories :). 

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Fashion Inspired - Neon Flowers

Hello loves. I hope you are all well. I'm spending the day catching up on blog things as I have been falling very behind lately. 

I have a summery, fashion inspired design to show you today. These are pretty simple but effective in my opinion, plus they are perfect for the summer! 

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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. 

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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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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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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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