Uber Chic Collection 20 - Nail art and review

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Ooo it's finally Friday again! This week has been a bit of a tiring one. My work colleague has been on holiday so I've been busy but lonely :( and home life was been a bit hectic at the beginning of the week.  So it's safe to say I'm happy it's the weekend. Today's review is of Uber Chic Collection 20. This collection is bursting with lots of different items. Butterflies, flower, polish bottles, mandalas and so much more! 

Uber Chic School is Cool and Fairytale 02 review

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Hey lovely readers. I hope you had an ok week and have a nice weekend ahead of you. We have a garden party...but not one you would expect. lol I have a few family coming around to help us dig out the garden haha oh the joys of owning your own house and trying to save money by doing jobs yourself. Anyway, you're not here to hear about my social life, you're here for the plates! Today I have manis using two new plates by Uber Chic. Fairytale 02 and School is Cool.

Uber Chic Unicorn Love and Texture-licious - Nail-Artisan review

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Hey guys! I hope you had a lovely weekend. We bought a seat for our garden and enjoyed a bit of the sun! 

I have some exciting Uber Chic goodies to show you today. They did an epic release recently and here's two of the items. A new Texture-licious plate and the most exciting thing ever..Unicorn Love!!

#smearforsmear - Cervical Cancer Awareness

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Today I have a very important post to share with you and it's quite personal. I wanted to help raise awareness for the importance of Smear tests, also known as Cervical Screening. I became aware of Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust and found out that every January they run a campaign on Instagram called #smearforsmear. They call on women everywhere to apply lipstick, smear it and post a selfie to help spread the word that Smear tests are very important. I put my own twist on this and asked the nail community to join in and smear our art to help create more attention for the cause.

26 GNAI - Red and Pink

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Happy Friday everyone! I have a very cutesy 26 Great Nail Art Ideas post for you today. It's all about red and pink if you can't guess. In the week before I did this mani, Nail-Mail contacted me and asked if I wanted to review some vinyls and then sent me a few different ones. I just had to use the cute Floating Hearts for this mani as it was just perfect timing!

Uber Chic Love and Marriage 03 & Party Time - Nail-Artisan review

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So today should be my first 26 GNAI post of 2017 but I had to postpone that until Tuesday as I have new Uber Chic goodies to show you!!! Alex from Nail-Artisan sent me 2 new single plates and a new collection, number 14 to review. I just have the two single plates to share with you guys today and they are so much fun! Collection 14 will be up next Friday.

26 GNAI - Black base

There's a wonderful nail art challenge on instagram by two lovely ladies this month, Starryeyed83 and Ladyandthe_stamp, and it's all about Pancreatic Cancer awareness. I joined in on all the challenges last year but I've not been able to this month as I've just been so busy! However, this weeks prompt for 26 GNAI is just to use a black base so I incorporated purple flowers into my mani which is next weeks prompt!

26 GNAI - Blue and silver - Uber Chic Far East

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Yey the nail art challenge is back but this time it's 26 Great Nail art ideas! I managed to rope a few more bloggers/instagrammers into this challenge so hope you're ready to see lots of cool manis. The prompts are a bit easier to follow this time and have a lot of room for interpretation which I think is great. Today's prompt is blue and silver. I was sent the Uber Chic Far East 02 plate to review by Alex from Nail-Artisan and as soon as I saw the little bird images I wanted it on my nail in blue...don't ask me why lol I just did!

Uber Chic Wild West 2 - Nail-Artisan review

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Do you love the Wild west? Tribal? Native America? Yes I hear you say?! Well you will love the new Wild West 02 plate from Uber Chic. Nail-Artisan sent me this beautiful plate for review so I could create some manis for you guys.

Stamped pond mani -Barry M Lolly Gloss

I'm not normally one for sheer or jelly polishes but when Barry M released their new Lolly Gloss collection I knew I had to try some! I specifically wanted to try a pond mani which is where you have layers of polish and put something in between the layers. For examples, dots, flowers, stamping etc. I chose stamping of course!

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Violet & Camouflage

Violet is the colour prompt for this weeks 40 GNAI and I think there will be a lot of different types of Violet among the other bloggers posts. Everyone's interpretation of colour is so different and I guess that's what great about these types of challenges. I had camouflage as my pattern prompt. Not sure what happened with the polish on my pinky...so lets just ignore that! 

40 Great Nail Ideas: Pastel - Aztec

I thought this weeks challenge would be an easy one, pastel and aztec. I had something in mind so I tried it and instantly hated it! Thankfully I found the time to re-do and I much preferred the second version. Have you ever had that happen where what you saw in your head looked amazing but just failed so badly on your nails?!

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Pale blue base -Water colour

I'm back today with another theme from Crumpets Nail Tarts and this week the colour is pale blue and my pattern is water colour. For a long time now I've wanted to try out Nimbus nails which was a technique The Nailasaurus came up with, and this was the perfect opportunity. 

CBL Blue, Blue Christmas - MoYou London stamping

Well it's certainly a Blue, Blue, Christmas without my lovely long almonds, but with this baby on my nails it does help ease the pain! I absolutely love this colour and it's only fitting to stamp it with some Christmas theme images right?!

Hobby Polish Bloggers presents - Halloween

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Happy Halloween! HPB are back again and we obviously had to do Halloween nails this month right?! I haven't done many Halloween manis a I've been busy doing other things so I did two in one today and these are nice and simple too.

Bonprix Blogger Competition #PartyPolished

Bonprix are running a competition, in participation with Barry M, called #PartyPolished. There are six dresses to chose from, you have to pick one and create a manicure inspired by that dress. If you win you get a £50 voucher to spend at Bonprix and lots of Barry M goodies. There's also a few runner up prizes, how cool is that?! This is my entry into the competition.

MoYou Nails Review

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Hey guys. I was recently contacted by MoYou Nails to see if I wanted to provide an honest review on some of their stamping products. As you know I love stamping so of course I said yes!

HPB Presents Starry Night Sky

It's time for another Hobby Polish Blogger link up and this months theme is Starry Night Sky! For this mani I wanted to do a camping scene under the stars. I used to go camping all the time with an old school friend when I was in my teens and I loved it.

HPB Presents Beach nails - Barry M and Uber Chic

I have another link-up post from the lovely gals down at Hobby Polish Bloggers and this months theme is Beach. I've been wanting to buy the Uber Chic plates for a while and when this theme was announced I knew I had to buy them.

Pastel flower mani

I have completed my first Weekly Nail Art Challenge in Instagram..yey!! So this weeks theme was floral - pastel.