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Elegant Mandala manicure in shimmer blue (plus Product review: Born Pretty Chameleon gel pigment polish)

Good day! I am back with another review post, this time it is for a gel polish! I have only just started using gel polishes recently, so I am still a beginner! I have acquired a LED curing lamp so that I can use more gel polishes in my designs. I used to use this 1 finger USB connected LED mini lamp, although it does work, but it does take a lot longer to complete my manicure. Layered stamping…

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Nail art clean-up brush (Product review: Born Pretty)

Hi there, I am sharing another product review post with you today, this is not about stampers, stamping plates or decals. I am reviewing a Born Pretty clean up brush, YES, a clean-up brush, not a very glamourous nail art tool. But if you do any sort of nail art, the chances are you will need a good clean-up brush. What is a clean-up brush? A clean-up brush comes in many shapes and sizes, mostly…

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#pcanovember17 Purple Floral Manicure using Born Pretty stamping polish #39942 (Product Review)

#PRSAMPLE Hello there, I hope this post finds you well and ready for the festive season. Today, I will be sharing a review post on Born Pretty Shimmer purple stamping polish and one of the nail designs I used it with. As you know I am addicted to stamping, and I love nothing better than a beautiful and opaque stamping polish that works perfectly well with most of my plates. This bottle of shimmer…

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Product Review: Ejiubas White Stamper set (Plus super cute Hello Kitty and Unicorn nail designs using reverse stamping technique)

#PRSAMPLE Hello all, it is Thursday 30th Nov 2017, and we just had a dusting of snow in London! I am not keen on cold Winter but snowflakes are so pretty! In today’s post, I will be reviewing the new Ejiubas white stamper set, which was kindly sent to me for review, honest opinion and testing. Actually, Guiwen didn’t even request me to write a blog post on this! But I do like the stamper set and…

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Super Easy Nail Art! WhatsupNails Colibri Nail Stencils and BeautyBigBang Multichrome holo flakes [Product Review]

Super Easy Nail Art! WhatsupNails Colibri Nail Stencils and BeautyBigBang Multichrome holo flakes [Product Review]

Easy Nail Art: WhatsUP Nails Colibri (Hummingbird) nail stencils and BeautyBigBang multichrome flakes @iamcherrylemon Hi there! I have a simple and easy yet pretty manicure to share with you today. I will go through step by step on how to achieve it, together with the products I used for this manicure. You are welcome to swap any of the item How to achieve this look: Apply peel off base coat to…

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Super Cute Hello Kitty gradient manicure and [Product Review] BeautyBigBang Gold Glitter Aluminium Flakes

Super Cute Hello Kitty gradient manicure and [Product Review] BeautyBigBang Gold Glitter Aluminium Flakes

Super Cute Hello Kitty soft pastel gradient manicure @iamcherrylemon Hello there! Hope you are well and had a great weekend! Today I am sharing a birthday collaboration manicure with you. This is a birthday manicure created for one of the sweet ladies on IG. The group theme was Hello Kitty nails, I could not pass up on this opportunity to use one of my oldest stamping plate purchase and one of…

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Halloween Manicure: Holographic Mummies and Born Pretty nail art brush set review #40899

Halloween Manicure: Holographic Mummies and Born Pretty nail art brush set review #40899

#PRSAMPLE Hallow, hello! Today, I am sharing a manicure I did for a Halloween nail art prompt, “mummies”. For this mani, I freehand the design using a set of nail art brushes I’ve received from Born Pretty. “Mummies” is one of the themed nail art challenge prompt from #clairestelle8Halloween for 2017. Halloween manicure: Mummies (Holographic nails) @iamcherrylemon Products used: Born Pretty nail…

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Product Review: Halloween manicure - Spooky Forest (instagram nail art challenge) & Born Pretty Halloween plate BP-L057

Product Review: Halloween manicure – Spooky Forest (instagram nail art challenge) & Born Pretty Halloween plate BP-L057

#PRSAMPLE Morning all, hope this post finds you well and you are all ready for Halloween on Monday! I regularly participate in a few instagram nail art challenges and collaborations every month. One of the challenges I like is the “Fire Dazed monthly”. It is hosted by Becky and her prompts are always season appropriate and easy to be inspired to. Today’s prompt is “Spooky Forest”, and I ave…

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Instagram nail art challenge - When colours collide! "BLUE"

Instagram nail art challenge – When colours collide! “BLUE”

# PR Sample # Hello there! I’m back from a week’s vacation, it was really fun and also exhausting. I managed to wear a single polish for over 11 days, which I have not done so before! So weird to wear the same shade for so long. Anyhow, today I’m sharing a manicure I created for the “When colour collide” nail art challenge. WCC is a FB based challenge, there’s a new theme every 2 weeks. It could…

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26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Your Signature Style

26 Great Nail Art Ideas – Your Signature Style

Hello and happy Friday! Well well well! My final blog post for #26GNAI! I cannot believe it was a year ago since I started this nail art challenge. It took quite a bit of commitment to finish all 26 prompts for this biweekly challenge. But I’m glad I’ve done it, I love nail art challenges. So this week’s prompt is “Your Signature Style”…. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I love stamping and I…

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26 Great Nail Art Ideas – Autumn

Happy Friday! Can you believe we are on our 25th of the 26 GNAI posts? It will feel quite strange finishing this annual bi-weekly challenge which took quite a lot of commitment in order to complete! I am still unsure if I want to continue for another 26 or 52! Anyhow, this Friday’s #26GNAI is about Autumn. Very suiting to what is going on right now, the temperature is dropping, the days are…

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26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Dotting Tools but not just dots! (Marc Jacobs Daisy Dream inspired manicure) #26GNAI

26 Great Nail Art Ideas – Dotting Tools but not just dots! (Marc Jacobs Daisy Dream inspired manicure) #26GNAI

Hello! It is #26gnai time again. This week’s prompt is about dotting tools, but not just dots on the nails. I love using my dotting tools, I get my set from Born Pretty (click here for mini review) few years ago and they are still looking very nice. I have always wanted to recreate a Marc Jacobs Daisy Dream inspired manicure for years, but never got round to actually complete. You don’t need alot…

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Product Review: Born Pretty stamping plate Geometry designs BP-L070 (plus Geometric style manicures!)

Product Review: Born Pretty stamping plate Geometry designs BP-L070 (plus Geometric style manicures!)

#PRSAMPLE Hi there, hope you are well on this fine day 🙂 Today I am sharing 2 manicures and the review on the stamping plate I used for these designs. First up, this is a recreation manicure I did for Amy’s 30th birthday nail art collaboration. To celebrate her birthday on IG, we were invited to recreate one of Amy’s designs or a mermaid themed design. I chose one of (IG: @nailsandstuff_here)…

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Total solar eclipse August 21st, 2017 (celebratory celestial manicure)

Total solar eclipse August 21st, 2017 (celebratory celestial manicure)

  Hi there, did you wonder why there is a post about total esclipse coming from a nail blog? I know I would, if i saw it popping up in my feed 😉 Today is the day, when the total solar esclipse will be visible across the northern America. This event last happened in the states back in 1918! The most impressive and memorable total solar esclipse for me was back in my primary (junior) school days. I…

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26 Great Nail Art Ideas - End of Summer @iamcherrylemon

26 Great Nail Art Ideas – End of Summer @iamcherrylemon

Hello there! Hope this blog post finds you well 🙂 It is #26GNAI time again, and this week’s prompt is “End of Summer”. For this prompt, I first created a “rainy” manicure but found that, this current “Fall” manicure in earthy tones are more suiting. I don’t really want summer to be over just yet! Products used: Nails Inc magnetic polish in London Town Barry M foil effects in Gold UK nail stamping…

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#AZnailartchallenge "M" for Music! Stamped manicure using BPL-59 and Hit the Bottle stamping polishes

#AZnailartchallenge “M” for Music! Stamped manicure using BPL-59 and Hit the Bottle stamping polishes

AZNailArtChallenge M for Musical (Nail Collage) @iamcherrylemon Hiya! Hope you’re well. I will have to write up tons of backlogged blog posts in reverse order, might also need to skip some too. #Procrastination is not a good friend! Here we have the manicure created for the AZ nail art challenge, M for music. I’ve wanted to create something similar since I’ve received the plate. I was so glad…

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26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Colour Explosions

26 Great Nail Art Ideas – Colour Explosions

Hello there, it’s that time of the week again that I show you another #26GNAI mani! This week’s prompt is “Colour Explosions”… and I have only used a few colours… oh dear. Anyhow, I have received a couple of new CreativeShop stamping plates and I was keen to make use of them. I picked out few of my neon polishes and started dry brushing over a silver white base. 26 Great Nail Art Ideas – Colours…