For Your Nails Only - Cupid Collection - Swatches and review

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Hey guys!! I am so excited to share with you swatches and nail art using a new collection from For Your Nail Only, the Cupid Collection. I was honoured when Sharon from FYNO asked if I could swatch her collection...I was like, hell yes I can! I have lusted over her polishes for a while and just before Christmas I finally placed an order. Her polishes are wonderful and this collection did not disappoint. 

Lina Dress Your Nails 01 - Nail-Artisan review

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I just love tartan images so I was over the moon when Alex from Nail-Artisan sent me the Lina Dress Your Nails 01 plate to review. It's full of fabric patterns like tartan, hounds tooth, argyle and more! I wanted to do some simple manis with this plate just to show that you don't always have to go mad with your base colours or stamping ideas.

#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!

Just Beauty - Secret Santa

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In the week before Christmas, Just Beauty contacted me with an exciting opportunity! They ask if I would like to be part of a nail blogger secret Santa. I said yes of course! So they sent me a name across and I had to pick some items up to the value of £10, from the Just Beauty website, to gift to that person. These are the items that I was gifted.

Uber Chic Collection 14 - Nail-Artisan review

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If you remember back to last Friday, we had a new Uber Chic release, and it included collection 14. Alex from Nail-Artisan kindly send this to me for review and I created a mani with each plate. This is a really nice collection which has everything from geometric to abstract and even flowers and butterflies.

26 GNAI- New Year, new me.

So excited to show you my mani for New Year, new me as it's my first successful drag marble!! Yaay go me! I was so happy with this, especially my ring finger. I've tried to do it a few times before but could just never get it right.

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.

Pink Gellac - Disco Glam swatches and review

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Happy new year everyone! Hope you all had a good one. I just spent it at home with my partner and our dog, NYE is so overrated. Back to the grindstone for me today but I honestly are quite happy to be back to work. I missed the routine of it all.

Pink Gellac sent me a lovely parcel which included their Disco Glam collection. The presentation was fabulous but the colours were even better!

New Years nails - 2016

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Another year is nearly over and I'm celebrating with a New Years Eve style mani...what else would I do on my nails?! In the nail art word we've seen many new things this year like holo pigment, chrome pigment, stamping with diamantes but my favourite invention of the year is the clear jumbo stamper! Today's mani wouldn't have been possible without it.

Uber Chic Collection 13 - Nail-Artisan review

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Hey guys! I hope you all had a fab Christmas with all your family and friends. Hopefully you got lots of nail goodies to play with over this Christmas break or maybe money that you can spend on nail stuff lol. I have a few things myself to being playing with and reviewing...all will be revealed soon. For today I have a review of Uber Chic collection 13 sent to me by Nail-Artisan.

26 GNAI-Pastel Christmas

So it's Christmas Eve tomorrow...are you prepared?! All my presents were wrapped up last weekend, I can't be doing with all the last minute rush! It's my last 26 Great Nail Art Ideas of 2016 today and we're ending it with something fun...Pastel Christmas!

  

Costa cup inspired Christmas mani

I can't believe it's Christmas day this Sunday?! It's seems to have just appeared and I don't feel like I've done enough Christmas nails..are you sick of Christmas designs yet? I'm not if you haven't noticed by today's post. My partner and I got a Costa a few weeks back and it was a take out (I had an orange hot chocolate-yum!) and I just had to keep the cup to recreate it!

Lina Stamping Plates - Nail-Artisan review

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Surely loads of you will have heard of Lina Nail Art Supplies stamping plates right?! They have been around since about October and Nail-Artisan is the UK stockist for this wonderful new stamping plate brand. Alex was kind enough to send me two plates to review for you guys.

Polish My Life swatches - Nail-Artisan review

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I have another new to me polish brand on the blog today courtesy of Alex from Nail-Artisan and that is, Polish My Life. She kindly sent me the new Girls & Boys collection, NYC Edition which consists of three amazing cremes!  Read on to see swatches and nail art.

26 GNAI - Christmas Preparations

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Today's prompt for Christmas Preparations was another random one! I just instantly thought of decorating the tree and wrapping all the presents. So that's what I went with :) and I even got two of my lovely nail friends on Instagram involved on this one. Keep reading to see all our manis together.

Vegan Beauty Cosmetics - Swatches and review

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Hey guys! Hope you're all well today and had a great weekend. I spent most of it just contasntly coughing as I still have my cold :( It's mainly just a cough now but I'm seriously fed up of it! It was so bad this last week, I struggled to paint my nails without it irritating my throat and making me cough. That's steadily got better now and I have finally been able to finish swatching these seven fabulous new polishes from Vegan Beauty Cosmetics. Vegan Beauty Cosmetics is run by a lovely lady called Effiena and as you guessed by the name, she sells vegan friendly beauty products which include nail polish. Her polishes are 5 free and cruelty free.  So lets get into the swatches!

 I purchased this swatch pack myself.

Jessica Winter Collection - Phenom Precious - Swatches, review and nail art

Things are looking a little festive around here tonight with a gorgeous new collection from Jessica. Jessica has some new polishes in the Phenom collection and they are perfect colours for this season! 

NFC nail lights - VS Nail Art review

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Man will I be glad when it's the weekend again! This weekend was a bit of a write off for me and as I'm writing this it's actually Sunday night and I'm dreading work tomorrow :( can't think properly when I'm full of cold. Anyway, today's post is a classic Christmas scene but with a twist...can you tell what it is?

26 GNAI - Winter Warmth

I have another post today from 26 Great Nail Art Ideas and this week it's Winter Warmth! I had loads of ideas in my head about doing a lovely scene by the fire getting all cosy and warm for winter...but I stuck with a plain Christmas jumper design. I just didn't have the time to try anything more ambitious than this lol.

For my base I used two coats of Rudolph Red from For Your Nails Only. A gorgeous bright red with lots of flakies!!

I stamped some Christmas jumper designs from Uber Chic Christmas 01 as that's what winter is all about to me. Getting those big winter knits out and getting warm!

What would you do to represent winter warmth?

Bye for now x

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