Every once in a while, I find that I've let my nails get too long and my dexterity is starting to be impacted, so it's time to give them a good trim (and by trim, I do mean file because I don't cut my finger nails ever anymore) to take off some length. Of course, after having them so long for so long, looking down at them they almost start to feel like shorties (which is clearly not actual, but my brain decides things that are not actual all the time) and I really just needed to do something simple and cute, nail art wise. So this is what I came up with!

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Hey guys! It feels to me like 2021 is definitely shaping up to be the year of the abstract nail art for me - so many of my favorite designs this year are definitely slotted firmly into that category. When I sat down to do these nails, I will admit I was in a bit of a state and this was therapy for me, so I wanted to keep the colors soothing and the design simple and pleasing in its placement. My brain is... sometimes a very interesting place and how I place nail art designs is actually really, really specific to me. Neurodivergence, am I right?

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Hey guys! I hope everyone had a great weekend - I personally had a straight up meltdown with worry about my dog's health, so I will admit that this week's floral themed #CBBxManiMonday was a little bit thrown together at the last minute while I enjoyed a vodka soda and a rewatch of Ever After on Disney+ after getting some very relieving news from the vet... as you do. I feel like, for times like these where you want to do nail art but are running low on time and creativity, the rise of the blobby abstract nails trend is an absolute winner. You just kind of... slap it on and go. And because I'm me, of course, I added some floral stamping for good measure. 

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Because of our COVID-19 situation, we're back in lockdown here in Manitoba and I don't know if I'm going to be able to see my mom at all for Mother's Day this year, which is bumming me out pretty hard. I guess that kind of make it extra important to do some Mother's Day nails this year and I went with purple, my own mom's favorite colour, a little bit so that I could send her a picture of them. I love my mom, she's the best, and I know that I'm really, really lucky in that regard so I do definitely like to celebrate this particular day.

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You know those times when getting to the final product is just... a struggle? That was how this mani went for me - although once I got to what I ended up settling on, it went smooth like butter. It was the 5 other mani's that I tried before this one that failed spectacularly and almost meant this mani never came to be. Luckily, though, since I really, really love this mani, I ended up figuring out somethat that worked and didn't give up and just curl up with TikTok for a couple of hours of depression scrolling. Just me?

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Hey guys! For our #CBBxManiMonday theme for May, we went with May Flowers because of all of the obvious reasons, but I will admit that I stuttered a little bit with inspiration over the weekend when I was trying to come with any idea. I knew that I wanted to use this beautiful turquoise polish that has been calling to me every since it arrived a few weeks ago and ultimately I decided to go for some high contrast black and white flowers for a bit of a of a deco vibe. 

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I definitely feel like 2021 is going to be a year of different types of abstract nails, especially negative space ones, and I've personally been feeling a lot of inspiration to do these types of mani's. Recently I picked up a new stamping plate that is 100% perfect for adding different little decorations to this type of mani and I decided to pair it with some really exciting and super pigmented polishes from Dimension Nails that were kindly gifted to me from NailStuff.ca** for this bright, fun negative space mani! 

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As soon as I started seeing social media posts about the Uberchic Beauty Boho Chic Stamping Plate, I got full out grabby hands for it. There are so many stamping plates on my wishlist, but that one just jumped straight to the top and I basically had to have it. There's just something about it that falls right into my wheelhouse. For my first time using it, I decided to try out one of their layered design and... I love it but also the choices I made for polishes to use sort of makes this feel like a children's bedsheets design. Just me? 

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Not too long ago, I was lucky enough to win a gift certificate from Whats Up Nails and you can bet that I was quick like a cat to use it and pick up some of the stuff I'd had my eye on. If you follow the blog here, you'll know that Whats Up Nails stamping products are absolutely some of my favorites and I'm slowly but surely building my collection of their polishes and plates. For today's mani, almost everything I used is from that haul I did and I'm so, so excited about all of the products. 

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