Green Nails: Barry M - Mint Green

Hello there!! This polish was part of the first bunch of Barry Ms I ever got. I wanted a green for a strawberry design I wanted to do (one of the first bits of nail art I ever did!!), oh memories. At first I was kind of annoyed by the deceiving name cause this polish is not mint green. But as I have grown and loved green polish more and more (I swear Illamasqua Nomad triggered it), this polish has become nicer and nicer. And even though it's an older bottle it hasn't affected the quality of the polish!!

Isn't Mint Green lovely? Just your nice shade of light/middle green, don't really know the shade. I guess it's leaning jade and it's hint dusty, but not mint. It's just not mint.

As I saying I've grown to love green more and more, as I mature my nail polish taste matures with me (HIMYM anyone?). But that means I have a few polishes that are quite similar to this. Oh yeah I talking my comparison post of jade greens. I was surprised when a green polish ended up in my yearly favourites (and in the Top 5!!) but the trend continued and it only will as I just love green polish, it's so unnatural and fabulous.

The formula of Mint Green is on the thicker side which I personally don't mind. It's full coverage in 2 coats but I'm pretty sure I did 3 for the limited streaks left. But the formula was very smooth and even, though the formula was thick it wasn't difficult.

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a lovely day!! :)

Gimme Glitter: Glam Polish - Mar Attacks!

Hey there guys!! Hope you're having a nice day, I'm glad the weekend lets me catch up with stuff (and even so, I don't get to catch up that much) cause otherwise I'd have no time. I've been so busy lately it's ridiculous, oh January, how you are so full of surprises.
My dear friend got me this polish as a Christmas present (but given on the first day back to school) and obviously I HAD to wear it straight away. She asked me to give her my nail polish wishlist (lol my nail polish wishlist, it's got a bit ridiculous recently :P) and she picked this super super cute one, eeeeeeeeeee it's so pretty!!!! And fun fact, this is the 25th edition of Gimme Glitter, hopefully many more to come which wouldn't be all that surprising due to my love of glitter.

The swatch for my left hand was better, simply because I used thinner coats so the glitter showed WAY better, and when the glitter shows I'M IN LOVE (I'm in love a lot but it's matte neon glitter). I love things with all the colours so it wasn't a question whether I was going to love this or not.
Mars Attacks! is a mint green polish with (get ready for the list) pink butterflies (which I got obsessed with), red-ish and yellow circles, pink and teal squares, small orange, green and purple hexes and small pink and teal glitter. Look at all the fun, it can't be contained. I loved how bright the green glitter was, and just all the glitter was so cute together.

Glam Polish has so many fun shades, I love that they are so bright. On another note I love the Rainbow Connection UK website, seriously so much good stuff and for the UK!! This will become a big issue for me, an easy access to indie polish, even my friend said as she was browsing she couldn't believe the polish (ok maybe slight exaggeration but that's how I feel).

I used 3 coats for full coverage and for sufficient glitter as a lot of it got covered (:(), I think it needed 3 coats to cover up the slight streaks. But definitely not difficult to apply, just the glitter getting covered up issue. Cause when I was removing this polish, all the glitter that was covered was revealed, and it looked so incredible. So I'm going to have to find a way to apply this to get all the glitter to show cause it's even more beautiful. On the removal note, it wasn't easy because this is a glitter polish, the base came off fine but the glitter required a bit more force, but I could deal. I don't mind removing glitter cause I love it so much.

And here's the right hand swatch, you can see the butterfly on my thumb popping off. The butterflies after a while began to stick out, after 3 days or so the butterflies began to break through the topcoat (some of them), and I took some off. But my nails are pretty curved so this wasn't too surprising for me and I didn't mind. You can see the glitter getting covered up issue I was having but even so this is lovely. I can't say no the all the colourful glitter.

Thank you for reading, hope you liked this fun polish and have a nice day!! :)

Comparison: Mint Greens

Hi there guys!! Hope that if you're having time off you're enjoying it, I'm contemplating doing work, I decided after new year's day I would and this time I'm determined!! Cause like I actually need to get this stuff done...
I have another comparison today, only took me like 4 months, honestly I don't have all the polish to compare but I want to make my comparisons somewhat worthwhile. So mint greens, I don't know how I obtained so many but such is a nail art fiend's life :P

So we have Essie - Turquoise & Caicos, Rimmel - Misty Jade, Max Factor - Cool Jade, Barry M - Mint Green and I threw in Illamasqua - Nomad even though it is very different.
Misty Jade is the most blue toned and Cool Jade is the darkest of the lot. Honestly I think these are jade greens, I think the Barry M and the Essie are the most similar with the Essie being slightly lighter. But they're all quite similar as you can tell and they are especially similar in certain lightings, except Nomad, much more green-toned and beautiful.

My favourite is obviously the Illamasqua, the colour is the most beautiful in my opinion (it was in my favourites last year :)) but the most expensive, it's rare I splurge but I feel like Nomad is really worth it. But maybe you feel the Illamasqua is similar enough to the other polishes, personally I don't haha. But my second favourite is Cool Jade, not only because it was given by my friend but also it's a gorgeous colour with a perfect formula. Maybe you think I'm crazy and these are all identical to you but as the Like A Candy Shop meme goes "They're not the same, they're similar".

Illamasqua was 2 perfect coats that totally could've been one if I used a thicker coat of polish.
Barry M was 3 coats but probably could've been 2, tash on the gloopy side but my bottle is old and it's not bad at all. Seriously this was one of the first polishes I ever bought in a bunch of Barry M's.
Max Factor was also 2 perfect coats.
Rimmel was 3 coats, also probably didn't need it another slightly gloopy one but not bad.
Essie was a definite 3 coater, jelly so it's easy to bubble, I'm not the biggest fan of this polish. I thought I'd love it but no, as you can see its very similar to other polishes I own and it's not better. I keep saying I'll try to use this more, who knows if I'll ever do that haha.

Thank you for reading (and found this somewhat useful?) and I hope you have a wonderful day!! :)

Combo: Oh Christmas Tree

Hello there!!! Merry Christmas eve one and all!!! I had this on Christmas Day last year. OPI - Rainbow Connection was the first OPI I'd ever got. It came in the mail on Christmas Eve and I was excited. I only bought it for the name, but also because it's rainbow glitter (and you can't go wrong with that).

This isn't a picture of my nails last year, I didn't have enough insight to do that at the time. I started with 2 coats of Barry M - Mint Green and 2 coats of OPI - Rainbow Connection. It's somewhat reminiscent, I loved it last year. I think I was also excited cause it was my first OPI. Unfortunately I didn't get the greatest pictures, but I hope you can kind of get the gist of it :P

There's lots of rainbow glitters out there. But Rainbow Connection is an absolutely beautiful song, therefore justifying the purchase further :P I've been using Rainbow Connection quite a lot during this festive season, it just makes me want to bust out the rainbow glitter.

Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me. :) Have a wonderful Christmas eve!!