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Suffering from a case of the Monday Blues? Yep so am I, so here's a blue mani monday for you all. It's one of my favourite Barry M blues called Blueberry and it's from the Gelly collection. It's been a great week here in London with the sun shining down, warmer temperatures and the city getting getting for summer so this blue is inspired by the lovely blue skies we've been seeing.

Two coats of Barry M Gelly - Blueberry.

Taken in natural sunlight.

Stamped using Kiko - 334 and MoYou Suki Plate 07.

OPI Nail Envy - Base coat, Kiko - 334, Barry M Gelly - Blueberry and Sally Hansen - Top coat.

Happy Polishing until next time..

I've got the perfect peach to show off this Spring. It's from China Glaze's Road Trip Spring 2015 collection and it contains some beautiful shades. This one is called Pack Lightly and has a gorgeous visible coppery shimmer. In the sunlight it gives it a lovely pearly, sparkly finish. I couldn't help taking a million pictures of this look but it really is that pretty!

Two even coats. You can see the sparkly shimmer bouncing of direct sunlight.

Taken in the day but not under sunlight.

Stamped using MoYou Kitty Plate 03 and Nails Inc - Old Park Lane.

China Glaze - Pack Lightly, Nails Inc - Old Park Lane and Sally Hansen - Top Coat.

Happy Polishing until next time..

Happy Easter Sunday! Hope you're enjoying all those chocolate eggs :) Here's a quick, easy design for you guys.

The finished look.

Two even coats of Kiko Cupcake - Pineapple and Strawberry.

The yellow contains small textured sprinkles of orange, yellow and brown. The pink contains textures of red and blue sprinkles.

Stamped an Easter egg design using Cheeky Jumbo Plate 6 and Covergirl - Shiraz.

Happy Polishing until next time..

All Aboard by China Glaze is a dusty purple creme and although it's from the Fall 2014 collection, it's quite bright as opposed to your usual dark vampy shades. I'd say it would definitely make a great summer shade! I love using silver on dark purple as it looks elegant and really stands out so I've used stamping plate MLS-04 and Barry M - Silver foil to stamp this cute design.

The finished look with top coat.

2 coats of China Glaze - All Aboard

A lovely bright purple creme shade

Stamped using MLS-04 plate and Barry M - Silver foil.

OPI Nail Envy - Base coat, Barry M - Silver Foil, China Glaze - All Aboard and Sally Hansen - Top Coat.

Happy polishing until next time..

This might just be my favourite newly discovered nude for spring! It's by essie called cocktails and coconuts and it's from last years spring collection. It consists of tiny secret silver glitter which is only visible in sunlight. Your skin tone will most likely determine the kind of nude it appears and whether it's more taupe or a light beige, but I definitely think it suits all types. I've used two thick coats to get a good opaque coverage however if you apply polish quite thin then 3 coats will be required.

Taken in direct sunlight to capture the soft glitter.

Stamped using Rimmel - Black Pearl and Moyou - Tourist plate 21.

Rimmel - Black Pearl, Essie - Cocktails and Coconuts and Sally Hansen - Top Coat.

Happy polishing until next time..

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all those celebrating! I was honoured to be asked by Pia to guest blog for her Green Week competition that was running all week, to the build up of St. Patrick's Day.

I'm going to show you the looks I created over the past few days. Hope you like them :)

Look 1:

Created using Sally Hansen - Kiwi Bikini, OPI - Gold Shatter, Barry M - Matt White and Cheeky Holiday Jumbo Plate.

Look 2:

Created using Maybelline - Rainforest Canopy, LM Care Romeis - 144 and stamped with OPI nicole - Khloe had a little lam lam and Cheeky Holiday Jumbo Plate.

Look 3:

Skittle Mani created using, LM Care Romeis - 144, Sally Hansen - Kiwi Bikini, LA Colors - Palm Tree, and OPI nicole - Khloe had a little lam lam.

Look 4:

Created using LA Colors - Palm Tree and stamped with LA Colors - Black Velvet and Cheeky Holiday Jumbo Plate.

Look 5:

Created using Kiko cupcake - Pistachio and stamped using OPI nicole - Khloe had a little lam lam and MoYou Kitty Plate 03.

Happy polishing until next time..

OPI Can't Afjord Not To is from the Nordic Fall Collection 2014 but I would say it's definitely more of a summer shade. It's a creamy muted orange and would look amazing on tanned skin tones. In natural daylight it looks much brighter but also a softer shade of orange compared to evening. It's not as bright as a neon however, so for me it makes a perfect balanced summer shade!