Guest Post: Nail Art by Vivacious Blog

Hi everyone! Hope you all have a great weekend!! What did you get upto??

Today I am really excited to introduce you to an awesome chick who is crazy talented at nail art...its Vertika from Vivacious Blog! I've been following her blog for a few months now and I just love all her creative and detailed designs so much that I asked her if she would be able to a special design for me...

Here's what she came up with...

Hello Beauties!

Cherry is one of my favourite fruits. And whenever I have ice cream first thing I eat is the cherry on top. I even steal cherry of others ice cream. J

So I thought I should try cherry on my nails.

I used –

• White nail paint
• Red nail paint
• Green nail Paint
• Nail Art Brush
• Toothpick 
• Top Coat and Base Coat

Method –

First apply base coat on all the nails.

Then use white nail paint and apply on all nails. Then let it dry.

 Apply red nail paint on nail tips. 

Take a toothpick and make few dots with red nail paint. These red dots are cherries. 

Then make green parts of cherry with green nail paint.

Now make two white lines on red nail tips. 

For thumb nail, write CHERRY and make cherries. 

Secure it with top coat. 

I hope you enjoyed this cute cherry nail art...you can checkout out Vertika's blog here...she has some really great designs! oh and lets not forget....Happy Valentines Day everyone!!

Valentine dreams...

What do most of us girls dream of receiving on Valentines Day? Diamonds and jewellery of course...and what would be more romantic than a special piece from Tiffany's...here are a few of my favourites...

Ok so most of these are outta my price range....but it doesn't mean I can't dream :-)...

Cherry Lane xoxo

Image source: www.tiffany.co.uk. All images owned by Tiffany &Co.

Rochester Cherry Competition Victory!!

Brrrr....its absolutely freezing here in the UK! Literally! My laptop weather gadget is telling me its -5 outside!! Ouch!!

This cold weather makes me looks forward to the spring and think about past summers...a couple of years ago my friend Rachel from House of Pinheiro invited me to spend the weekend with her in Rochester and it just so happened that the city was holding its annual summer pinic and were hosting a charity Cherry dessert competition!! Even back then when we didnt know eachother that well Rach knew about my love of cherries and of course we had to enter!! The only rule of the competition was that they needed to use fresh local Kent grown cherries...I made a Cherry Clafoutis and Rach made a fanastic Brazilian dessert. We were so excited about the weekend that we even sewed our own fun cherry aprons especially for the occasion!! We were rushing to make them the morning of the picnic and didn't quite finish them on time...

It was a wonderful day! The sun was shining! Lots of people and stalls and some extremely good contenders for the dessert competition!

The big oval one is Rachel's Brazilian masterpiece

Mine was D...cherry clafouti

Stiff competition

After alot of tastings, the scores were in and the Head Judge, Chris from Topes restaurant in Rochester announced the winner...

and hey presto Rachel's Brazilian delight won 1st Prize!! Wooohooooo!!!! We were soooo happy!! She won a supercute cherry dessert platter, a three course dinner for two at a local 2 AA rosette restaurant and the opportunity to make the desserts in the restaurant kitchen and for the dessert to be served in the menu for the evening...what an honour!!

One our way home with the winning platter outside the restaurant we had dinner

Our finished aprons!

Making the winning dessert in the restaurant kitchen

Rach with Head Chef, Chris

At the restaurant

Winning dessert on the menu with Rach's name!

The final presentation of the dessert...its no surprise they sold out right!

We even featured in the local newspaper!!

You can find Rachel's take on the day here.  Oh summer fun!! Please hurry and bring me sunshine!!

Cherry Lane xoxo

Clearasil PerfectaWash

Hi everyone!! I hope you are having a great weekend and if you are in the UK...enjoying the lovely snow! :-) I was doing my weekly shopping yesterday when I came across this in Superdrug (local drugstore)...I'm sure you can spot what first attacted me to this...

Yep, you guessed it...it was the burst of cherries! lol

Once I was over that I noticed that the big display was promoting a new product by Clearasil called the PerfectaWash. Its basically an automatic touch free facewash dispenser. The product aims to dispense the perfect amount of product to cleanse your skin without overdrying by using too much product. Clearasil say that PerfectaWash is dermatologically tested and provides visibly clearer skin in just 12 hours.

There are two 'Ultra Rapid Action Face Wash' refills available for the dispenser....Superfruit Splash (including cherries!) and Soothing Plant Extracts.

This dispensing unit comes with one refill included in the pack. One refill contains 100 applications or 'doses'.  Its priced at £12.99 but Superdrug are selling this for a special introductory price of £8.99 until 14th Feb. You can also buy the refills for £4.49.

Have you tried this product? What did you think?

Cherry Lane xoxo

Valentine Special L'Occitane Cherry Princess

Hi everyone!! Love is in the air as Valentines Day fast approaches! Or maybe not for us singleton's out there who, if you are anything like me, keep seeing all these cute romantic heart shaped things everywhere and thinking 'oh I wish I had a boyfriend (or gf if you prefer) to buy me this adorable Me2You card'...I mean how cute are these!!

Instead I turn my attention to the shops!! This year just in time for Valentine's Day L'Occitane is releasing a limited edition 'Cherry Princess' range. L'Occitane say 'The juicy scents of red cherries blended with delicate floral softness, reminiscent of the graceful beauty of a princess'.

Top notes of Cherry Princess offer lemon, grapefruit and sweet cherry notes.
The heart gives us spring floral accords.
Base notes combine a blend of musk and precious wood.

The range includes:

Cherry Princess Hand Cream - £7.50
Cherry Princess Silky Body Gel - £18.00
Cherry Princess Eau de Toilette (50ml) - £29.00
Cherry Princess Pearlescent Shower Cream - £13.00
Cherry Princess Solid Perfume - £7.50

I love the simple yet delicate packaging of this range just like all L'Occitane products. And of course being a diehard cherry lover I just cant wait to try this out but also I need to wait until 8th Feb when this will hit UK stores (ok I know its not that long but what can I say I can be impatient at times lol)!

Have you had the chance to try this out? What do you think?

Cherry Lane xoxo

And the winner is...........

So today is the day you have all been waiting for so rather than keeping you waiting any longer I'll get straight into it!! The winners were picked by random.org and verified by my friend Dr. Deena M (she just got her pHD so she'll be chuffed I called her Dr. lol) so here goes...

1st Prize

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Surabhi Agarwal from Fashionita's Stop

Congratulations Surabhi!! I really hope you love the prizes as much as I do....there really are some great products in there xx

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Yoshi from Sweets & Dreams

Congrats Yoshi I really hope you enjoy these prizes, I will also be sending you a soap from the new Body Shop ChocMania range! I am absolutely in love with it!! xx


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Bharti Puri from CrazyPopLock


Congrats Bharti! You will also be receiving a Body Shop Chocmania Soap in addition to the prizes above! I hope you enjoy!!


Please could each of you kindly get in touch with me by email/facebook/twitter and let me know your address so that I can get these goodies to you asap.


Thank you...


Thank you all for the for the phenomenal support you have all given this blog...never in a million years would have dreamed of reaching 200! I'm sooooo happy! Thank you to everyone who has contributed and written comments. You time is precious so I truly appreciate everyone who has read my blog posts, it means so much to me. I will be doing more international giveaways in the future stay tuned :-) 




Love,
Cherry Lane xoxo