I swear, it happens every year - I fall back in love with gradients in the springtime. Now, this may be because I like the look of pastel or muted gradients better than the more saturated shades that I tend to reach for the rest of the year. Actually, now that I think about it, that's almost certainly why I tend to do so many gradients in the springtime. Anyway, I always forget how much I love doing them and how quick and easy they really are when you're using the right products and have the technique down, but now that I'm back into the swing you can expect some more gradients popping up here on the blog in coming weeks!

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I will fully admit that I'm diving headfirst into the Easter theme at the moment. What can I say, I just absolutely love a theme. Also, as soon as I saw the Whats Up Nails B074 A Flower A Day Stamping Plate*, I knew that I was going to do some version of today's mani - though I will admit that the details and specifics were a little bit hazy in my mind until I actually sat down to do them. Sometimes the vision is super clear and other times you just sort of have to wing it, but I really do think you can end up with amazing results either way. 

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As usual, I am an absolute fiend for a theme, so now that we're within spitting distance of Easter it's time to bust out the pastels and the bunnies and the Easter eggs to dive right in. Pretty much every year I do some kind of pastel Easter Egg Skittle Mani and, of course, this year wasn't going to be any different - especially when the new Whats Up Nails B074 Stamping Plate* has the absolute perfect speckled image for it! 

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I don't know what it is about spring, but it seems like every year as soon as spring hits I find myself with a renewed desire to do gradients. Although, now that I think about it, it may honestly be because my favorite gradients are in fresh spring shades. For today's Easter mani, I went full out with just straight up pastel candy shades to create a gradient that looks yummy enough to eat and, not going to lie, I'm fairly obsessed with it. 

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So the thing is... I don't handpaint often when it comes to nail art, but when I do it's super easy and basic and if it needs finer details I tend to go in with stamping, like I did for today's mani. This mani was inspired by this one, from When Beauty Calls By Georgina on Instagram, but of course I to put a little bit of my own personality into it with a speckled indie base polish, a matte finish, and some seriously chubby little buns. 

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My favorite part of Easter is pretty simple - Cadbury Mini Eggs. In my opinion, they're just a pretty perfect seasonal candy and I never don't enjoy them. I've done Mini Eggs inspired Easter nail art before and I'm sure I'll do it again in a classic speckled skittle fashion, but this year I wanted to do it a little bit differently and add some negative space stamping for a little bit of a different look. I mean... who doesn't like some cute little eggs?

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