Tropical Surprise mani - BPS review

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Boy am I glad it's Friday! It's only been a 4 day working week but it feels much longer. I was recently sent some water decals from Born Pretty Store and when I used this gorgeous thermal from Christina Marie Handmade UK, I knew I had to pair the two together for a tropical surprise mani!

Christina Marie Handmade UK - swatches and review - Two-face collection

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I don't know about you guys but I had such a busy bank holiday weekend I was glad to have the extra day off, which means it's only a 4 day week...yey!! I have some swatches to share with you today of some new polishes by Christina Marie Handmade. CM Handmade is a UK indie that is run by two sisters, Anna Christina and Shelley Marie, who make and sell nail polish, candles and gifts. Their polishes are 5 free and cruelty free. The polishes that were sent to me for review are thermals and form the Two-face collection.

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - 3 shades of red/orange and Circles

Time for another instalment of 40 Great Nail Art Ideas. I wasn't keen on this mani I came up with. The colour theme was 3 shades of red/orange and I had circles for my pattern. I think my idea was good but the colours didn't really go together. 

DRK Nails Cobogo Mini plate review

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The lovely Alex at Nail-Artisan sent me the new DRK Nails Cobogo mini plate to review. I can't believe this is my first DRK Nails plate?! The pick up was amazing and all the images are lovely. I also did a swatch video which I will link at the end of this post.

We Heart Nails UK glitter swatches and review - Part two

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Happy Friday guys! I have the last 12 holographic glitters from We Heart Nails UK to show you today. If you didn't catch part one of my glitter review click here as it has all the information you need on these glitters and how to use them. Plus lots of pictures of the first 12! So lets jump right into the last 12 swatches.

We Heart Nails UK Glitter swatches and review - Part one.

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I have an epic glitter review for you today! The lovely Laura at We Heart Nails UK sent me 24, (yes 24!), holographic glitters to share with you all. The review will be in two parts with 12 glitters per post. Both posts will consist of three pictures per glitter. A full swatch using gel polish, a swatch on my thumb using regular polish and a macro. The second post will be on Friday.

So here's some essential information about these glitters. They are 004 hex, cosmetic grade and are made from PET plastics. MSDS sheets are available which is an essential item for all nail techs out there. They are also solvent resistant so can be used with any nail polish, gel polish, acrylic and even gel. 

40 Great Nail Art Ideas Pink and Lilac

So I went a bit wrong with this week's 40 Great Nail Art ideas post. I actually did this weeks mani twice! I stamped first time using a lilac stamping polish but for some reason didn't think about what my pattern prompt was and stamped something random. When I realised my pattern should have been chevrons, I re-did my mani and completely forgot the colour theme and stamped using a polish with Violet in the name! I think over this base it works as a shade of lilac as it's such a bright pink.

I'll pink to that - China Glaze with Uber Chic

It's about time we started to see some neons I think! I recently bought a few polishes from the new China Glaze collection, Lite Brites. I got Papa don't Peach, Bite me, What I like about blue and I'll pink to that. I mainly got them after seeing them on this video by Twi-star.Today I am going to show you I'll pink to that with some stamping from a new Uber chic plate.

Itsy Nails London swatches and review.

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Itsy Nails London is a new brand to the market. They have formulated a gel effect nail polish the is 5 free! So it contains none of the following chemicals: DBP, Toluene, Formaldehyde, Camphor and Formaldehyde Resin. It also looks like they may be releasing their own treatments soon so I'm sure they will be good if their polish is anything to go by!

Glam Polish - Truth Be Told - Yours Love Sascha stamping

Just after Christmas I treat myself to a few new polishes and the Darkly Dreaming collection from Glam Polish had caught my eye so I decided to buy Truth Be Told. The collection was inspired by the TV show Dexter...and it turns out I am now a big Dexter fan! My partner and I have just started watching it and we are nearly through with season two. Loving it so far!

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! 

Anniversary nails - Uber Chic and CBL Stamping polish.

Last week my boyfriend and I celebrated our anniversary. We aren't married but we do like to celebrate when we first met and this year was our 9th year together. I have done a few themed manis recently so I had to do a mani for this occasion.

Easter Mani - Models Own with stamping.

I hope you are all having a great Good Friday! It's been a lovely day today and even the weather has been pleasant. We went for a trip to IKEA (everyone loves IKEA right?!) and stopped off for some Krispy Kreme doughnuts on the way back. Yum Yum! I was talking to Becca, from A Certain Becca Nails, earlier this week about Easter nails and she gave me the inspiration to do these. I think she will be posting her Easter mani on Sunday so watch out for that!

CBL Young Turks with Uber Chic - birthday nails!

It was my birthday on Saturday. I had a lovely day and got some nice presents which even included a few nail bits. I don't normally get nail related items as presents, as people are always worried that I might already have it! For my birthday nails I chose one of my favourite colours and stamped some fun party images over it.

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - 3 shades of green - Brush Stroke

I'm a bit late with tonight's post. Partly because I've had a rubbish week and partly because I don't like this mani, I really am not a green fan. 40 Great Nail Art Ideas is all about green this week and I had brush Stoke as my pattern. Also, as I've come to write this post I've realised there was a typo on my schedule and I had this weeks theme as just green, but turns out it's 3 shades of green! Oh well, it was doomed from the start anyway lol.

Caviar Wishes and Keanu Reeves Dreams with double stamping

I've felt in a bit of a nail funk lately then I saw Debbie from Lady and the stamp post a gorgeous double stamped mani on Instagram and I thought "hey I still haven't done double stamping yet using the same image!" so I grabbed one of my new polishes and clear stamper and came up with this.

OPI New Orleans Mini set - Review and swatches

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I was recently contacted my the guys at Just My Look to see if I would like to review some of the colours from the new OPI New Orleans collection. They sent me these cute mini bottles so I could share some swatches with you guys.

Sheer lace nails - MoYou London Bridal

Here's one from the archive! I really don't know when I did this mani but I never got around to publishing it. It's so pretty and delicate so I thought I would post it now as it would be a nice spring mani.

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?!

Bear Pawlish - Wintermint with Moyra stamping

I had been lusting after Bear Pawlish Wintermint since Christmas time and I got it recently and it did not disappoint. I decided to team it with some stamping and I even recorded a video for YouTube but I can't edit the damn video on my phone app.. even after I have converted the file! Oh well, you'll just have to settle for some pretty pictures instead.