A Rather Late Five Friday Favorites

Hello everyone :)
This week has been manic and I woke up this morning and remembered I hadn't done Five Friday Favorites this week :( So I've decided from now on that if I know I have a lot of work to do or whatever then I will schedule my blog posts so I don't fall behind. So I apologise for the late post this week but here we go...

1. I love how cute these birthday cupcake and bunting nails are :) - http://neverlandnailblog.blogspot.com

2. I'm a lover of all things pokemon so this nail art really caught my eye - http://animalscrosshere.deviantart.com

3. This is how I wish my colour block mani had turned out :P - http://chloesnails.blogspot.com/

4. These giraffe inspired nails are beautiful and look so fun :) - http://adventuresinacetone.blogspot.com/

5.  And Finally... Hamburger nails !! Amazing. - http://www.nailnerd.com/

Again, be sure to check out all these amazing blogs :)

Thanks for reading and make sure to check back for Week 4 of the 52 week challenge tomorrow :)

Charlotte xxx

52 week challenge - week 3 colour block mani

Hello everyone :)
Today I have my colour blocking mani from the 52 week challenge to show you. Now, when I read it was colour blocking I had to google it as I had no idea what it was :P I looked at lots of mani's that people had done with this theme and they all seemed centred on clothing and patterns, I thought I'd base mine more on colours so I went searching and found this picture..

This shows different colour schemes and I thought I'd use one of these and incorporate some patterns into my mani. So after lots of debating I picked my colours and set out to work.

I decided to use OPI Alpine Snow, OPI Pink Friday, OPI DS Coronation, Barry M Grey and Revlon Lunar as my colours. I started off by painting my nails in alternating colours as the base and then just adding stripes/blocks of colour as I pleased, it was all a bit random this mani :P

Here's a picture of my nails in the sun to show you the scattered holo effect of the DS I used. I only got a few pictures of this mani as I really don't like how it turned out or how it looks. I really like the colour combination but the whole idea of colour blocking isn't something I really like and don't think I'll be repeating any time soon.

What do you think of colour block mani's? What colours and patterns would you use? let me know in the comments, I love reading comments from everyone :) Also, don't forget to enter my 50 follower giveaway :)

Thanks for reading,
Charlotte xxx