Purple Nails: OPI Liquid Sand - My Current Crush

Hello there lovely ones!! I've been on a bit of a swatch rampage if you couldn't tell, unfortunately for me the holidays have ended so I can't do that anymore. So the abundance of swatches will stop :( even if no one else has been liking them I definitely have. I like going crazy about polish and writing way in depth about it. Also trying out all the polishes is fun.

I got this quite recently from TK Maxx (my love <3) in a lil' set. I think it was called The Texture Effect(?), and came with a base coat which swayed me even more. Given the fact it was limited edition and Liquid Sand, it was obviously going to come home with me.

My Current Crush is a purple/plum textured creme with silver glitter that occasionally looks pink because of the purple base (though not in my picture :(). 

I am not in love with this like I was in love with Jinx cause it's not a completely sparkly one (those have my heart, I need all the sparkly textures) but I do like it. It's just nice, I would've thought with the plumminess I wouldn't like it, but this is just about not plum enough for me. If was more plummy I would hate it haha. Textures are awesome though, I really really hope it lasts. I need neon sparkly textures (oh my gosh that would just be my perfect polishes!!). 

I really can't say no to limited edition things, this is going to be a big problem in the future. The base coat was a nice addition, I pretty much have not been using base coat as base cat for the past 2 years. They run out really fast!! But the OPI bottle is big. I'm really really not fussed when it comes to base coat, literally anything will do. Explains why I've been using a french manicure pink as a base for the longest time haha. Having a real base coat is nice though. TK Maxx also had OPI DS Lapis which I somehow managed to convince myself that I didn't need, I'm skilled at that :P

I used 2 coats, but 3 couldn't have hurt to be honest. It was good formula wise, no issues, applied well. It's nice when polish is like this. But tipwear is pretty prominent for this one, but sure to wrap your tips. On another note the name is really cute, though the word "crush" is v juvenile, it's still can be cute :3

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a really cool day!! :P :)

Gimme Glitter: w7 - Lava Flow

Hi there guys!! I hope you're having a nice January, it's full steam ahead for me. School tends to do that. Anyway polish is much less grim, I'm still waiting to tell the "story" of these, I will once I swatch the final one. There are 3 w7 polished I hauled by the way, I got them in a pretty spectacular way. Key word: pretty (it wasn't that spectacular).

Lava flow is your white base with small red and black glitter. It's mad cool isn't it? I love how dramatic the red glitter is, I need more red glitter in my life. And obviously black glitter is awesome. There's so much glitter it's fab, I love polishes like this.

I guess I have another mini story about this/these polishes. I had these on the wishlist, but thought I was never actually going to get them cause I didn't know any shops that actually sold these so I gave up. But then I find them, it was pretty great, but I'll tell that another time.

The formula of this was really great, each coat was PACKED with glitter so this was 2 coats. And v opaque, the Nails Inc one (Sweets Way), I did 3 coats and there was still some VNL but this 2 coats and not a nail line in sight. I think the base of this one is much more opaque and yet doesn't hide the glitter, a very important balance that w7 has got right.

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

Teal Nails: M&S - Peacock

Hi guys!! I said I would be starting the year swatching and you better believe I am, I'm still kind of mind-blown that Marks and Spencer does nail polish, and good ones at that. My friends gave me a limited edition set for my birthday and I have been trying them out for nail art and that, the selection of colours were good. Some really good, I do like a good teal so this was a welcome entry to my collection.

All pictures should be slightly more on the green side, my camera seriously hates green, I can say it hates other colours but really it's pretty good with them. But green, no, teal is another issue entirely. I'd describe Peacock as a dark shimmery teal with teal sparks which you can kind of see in the pictures. I don't know what else to call them apart form sparks, it's not really glitter or shimmer. Tis is a nice polish.

One thing I really like about the M&S polish range is that they have names, and not bad ones at that. So many brands that not named their polishes, resorting to numbers or colour (which I prefer to numbers honestly) or nothing at all (which really annoys me, what am I meant to write here???). Hopefully Marks and Spencer nail polish prospers, it's good (and has names)!!

2 easy coats, shorter nails and thicker coats you could probably do 1. Really there's no formula issues whatsoever, v easy to apply. I used thin coats which gave "more precision" and 2 coats is something I'm kind of used to.

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

Pink Nails: Barry M Royal Glitter - Princess

Hi there guys!! I guess I'll been ending off this year with swatches (well not tomorrow, I have nail art for that), I love trying out new polishes and in general I feel like I'm closer to swatching my stash (but that will take a while, a long while...). Barry M have been absolutely incredible this year, you probably have read me raving here cause I rave about Barry M so often, Barry M will definitely be featuring in my favourites. This is the other textured polish I had my eye on and it's gorgeous, I knew I wouldn't be disappointed!!

Just a note, in real life the polish is a touch lighter (depending on the lighting), still just as pretty though

Peachy pink, golden shimmer with silver glitter. Genuinely one of the most unique textured polishes I've seen this year (in all the brands) and just gorgeous. Looks the same with topcoat like Lady, I love peachy pink and that shimmer is so pretty. Another winner in the Barry M books. Pale pink doesn't really suit me but I feel like this one sort of does (not in all lightings though, take away the direct lighting and this doesn't work on me, but I don't care :P). Also isn't Princess such a cute name? :3

As you can guess this came out in the Royal Textured Polishes Barry M released recently, I swatched Lady the other day, I don't think I'll get anymore cause the other colours are really not me. My friend said she'd buy this for me for my birthday (cause she asked me for nail polish suggestions), then she said she'd buy me it for Christmas, but she'd forgotten. But we went shopping together and I found this polish, handed it to her and told her to buy it for me. Haha is that wrong? I feel like close friends can do that to each other, wasn't overly surprised when Christmas rolled around :P But of course I'm thankful that she got it for me. Trust me, she's used to me :P

I used 3 coats, but 2 coats would do for shorter nails and people who don't hate VNL with a passion. Otherwise formula was perfect, no issues whatsoever applying, which I think Barry M has mastered.

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

Pink Nails: Barry M - Dragon Fruit

Hey there guys!! Ok this "swatch" is "exciting", this is the final polish in my favourite polishes on this year, I've decided this would be the "closing" polish and oh man it's gonna be a fun list. I was meant to get this polish earlier but I waited and I should know that I shouldn't wait for the Barry M's, they are fantastic, and this one is no different.

Dragon Fruit is your "standard" medium pink, I don't know why but I LOVE pink!! Pink is one of my favourite colours, you'd think as you grew up you'd like pink less but no, if anything I love pink more. Dragon Fruit has a subtle silver shimmer which is SO pretty and occasionally looks green/pink in direct lighting. I thought this was my favourite Gelly the moment I tried it, but after I got over that I realised maybe it doesn't rank that high but it is up there, I love this polish!! I say that about all the Gellies!!

This came from the Spring Gelly collection this year, fabulous set it was. The gellies have been killing it this year and I'm going to get them all. Hopefully next year the gellies will be just as (or even more, if that's possible) amazing.

My nails are rather long right now so I needed 3 coats to even out streaks, maybe 2 coats would work for shorter nails but I don't know I feel like 3 coats is like standard issue because of streaks, and not like the streaks were bad though. But it was easy to apply and generally was no hassle. Like the gellies usually are.

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

Gimme Glitter: Orly - Ridiculously Regal

Hi there folks!! Hope you're having a nice day and if not hopefully it'll get better. My bezzie also gave me this polish and I was excited that it was Orly, I really Orly, I like the polishes they make. And I never realised that TK Maxx was selling full-sized Orlys, you used to only be able to get minis from Boots. Clearly this opens up a whole new polish world for me.This is glitter, I love all the glitter, glitter is always a good thing.

Ridiculously Regal is a plum small and medium hex glitter in a clear base. Just saying I like the name, both words are ones I like. I've mentioned I hate the colour plum but I really really like this glitter, probably because it sparkles. Also I love the teal and plum combo it looks fab. Just want to say that the glitter looks a hint more purple in real life, but not that much more.

This polish was from Orly's Flash Glam FX collection that I really really liked, if I can get more, I WILL!! Consisted of 22 glitter polishes, quite clearly it was made for me. I have another from the collection, Go Deeper which again I really liked. I like putting my Orly glitters together, they look pretty.

The polish was very glitter packed, as you can tell but not particularly in the good way. It was an all or nothing kind of glitter polish. When I was applying and got the bottle, the base and the glitter had separated and the top 1/4 of the polish was all clear base.
I had to shake it up then apply, so the thumb is 1 coat as the glitter kind of exploded. The other four nails have 3 pretty well distributed coats, that's why those four nails are shinier than the thumb, they had more clear base. The glitter migrated to the tips and I had to manipulate it quite a bit but that's quite standard and it wasn't very bad. But you know I like the glitter packed look so this all worked in my favour.

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

Teal Nails: Barry M - Guava

Hello there you, happy weekend!! Today I have a swatch, a polish from a dear friend. I surprisingly don't have all that many teal polishes, I guess I just move to the blue or green party. But somewhere in between is always good for me :)

This here is Barry M Guava from the Summer Gelly collection. I AM IN LOVE WITH IT!! I just adore the colour it's sooooooooooooooooooooo beautiful, but also a pain to photograph. My camera hates green (-_-) and give it teal and it's whole other issue. I had to colour correct with my limited editing skillz but I'm glad I got it pretty accurate. I refused to show you a blue polish for this.
Guava is a more leaning on blue light teal and it's just gorgeous, I'm such a big fan of this polish.

The Barry M Gellies are fabulous (as are Barry M polishes, I just looooovvvvvve Barry M), the summer collection this year was pretty great. I might get Blue Grape just so I have a guilt free Baker Street that I can use ALL the time. And just look how shiny this is, and this is sin topcoat, it's pretty spectacular. I looked up what a guava looks like and this is not the colour of a guava, but this doesn't bother me.

2 flawless coats, this was actually opaque in 1 coat, I did two cause of habit and my nails are pretty long. But even so 1 coat was pretty much perfect. It glided and was so opaque and these are so fantastic, how can formula be so great? But I think this one chips quite easily, but throw your topcoat on and everything should be fine.

Thanks for reading and I hope you have a great day!! :)

Yellow Nails: Ciate - Loop The Loop

Hello there lovely one, hope you are well. This is my first ever yellow nails post, I guess yellow just isn't my colour (also it really doesn't suit me). This was a gift from my bezzie (very many thanks to her) with some caviar beads and who knows when those will see the light of day. I know I said I'd be posting less due to exams but I'm actually posting a decent amount, I guess I've got a little bit of myself together (let's not mention the state of revision).

Loop The Loop is just a very nice pale (but not too pale) yellow. I wasn't sure if I'd be a fan (didn't look all that special in the bottle) but surprisingly I am!! It's a very pretty shade I found myself looking and thinking it was lovely which is pretty rare for me and yellows. It's somewhat clean if you get me.
It might become my go-to yellow (which isn't all that prestigious to be honest), as my Barry M (Lemon Ice Cream) is gloopy as anything, w7 (Sheer Lemon) is too pale and requires too many coats and the Rimmel (Sunshine) stains. Also helpful that this Ciate is very aesthetically pleasing.
And just saying that I'm very pleased with my swatch, it looks legit.

I'm not sure how I feel about the brand Ciate, I will very graciously accept the gift and free gifts from magazines but I'm not sure if I'd ever buy any with my own money. None of them really get my attention as personally I don't think they're particularly magical. Also I don't like them taking others ideas then putting an extortionate price on it. But I really like this polish and Ciate's "ethics" don't really bother me all that much.

The formula wasn't perfect (which was a reason I thought it wasn't going to be all that great), the coats are a combination of quite opaque and streaky. Some patches covered and others just not. 3 coats was definitely required, but I don't think anymore would be needed. I used 2 thick coats and 1 thin. The brush of the polish was a bit messed up for me (one of the bristles was sticking out) but it didn't affect anything.
I was totally cynical when applying but honestly for a yellow it's pretty good and I'm just glad it's not gloop city for once and actually applied smoothly.

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

The Versatile Blogger Award!

Hi there guys!! I was nominated by the lovely Lucy of The Nail Snail, go to her blog guys, she does really cute looks!! These awards are lovely and just thank you Lucy!! I feel like I'm doing something right haha.

The rules:
1. Thank the person who nominated you (um easy!! :P)
2. Include a link to their blog
3. Select 15 new blogs you recently discovered or follow regularly
4. Nominate them and let them know
5. Tell 7 facts about yourself

Oh dear... the nominating I'm so sorry I suck like no one's business at this. There are so many fabulous nail blogs and I haven't had the time to research (I am so so sorry, I will get to it one day). There's not going to be 15, cause I fail :( Whether they want to go for this is up to them, unless they've done it before... Ya'know what I'm gonna tag some very deserving people and then just list some blogs I love so you can enjoy!! :D

The lovely Lacqueerisa 

My girl Batmomo at Pokenailart (whom I like to tag :))

Ida Nails It

Brit Nails

Did My Nails

LAC LAC (even though she discontinued her blog :()

Manicurator

Samarium's Swatches

Very Emily

xoxo, Jen

7 facts about me

1. Ever since I was young, whenever I eat (and actually when I do quite a lot of things) I always have to save the best for last, I just like having my favourite food at the end or like the biggest crisp.

2. I've been playing the piano since I was 5 (and it's a wonderful instrument).

3. The first Nintendo game I ever experienced was Super Smash Bros Melee on the Gamecube (I was too scared to play haha cause I was a crazy kid) and from there I delved into the world of Nintendo and no regrets.

4. Linking with the last fact I used to absolutely terrified (not any time recently) of computers, properly paralysed with fear. In my old school we either had to go on the computer or draw a monster. I would rebel and go out of the rota just so I wouldn't have to have anything to do with the computer. Let's just say I drew a lot of monsters. 

5. Josh Hutcherson is my fave ^_^

6. I like doodling on everything, especially my maths books and homework diaries. 

7. I'm occasionally a very emotional person, all I have to do is look at a cute baby and start crying haha. Or watch a wedding proposal, or a Pixar film, or just get generally emotional over random things (be it music, or a picture or anything). Like there was an episode of Modern Family where Phil is saying even though he may have been disappointed in Haley she was still his daughter and had to protect her and I just started crying...just as the plane had taken off... People hadn't even started watching stuff yet so it probably seemed a bit random, and if they knew what I was crying at they would probably question me even more. Even thinking about it makes me totes emosh :'( :P

Haha thanks for reading my rambly facts, I seem really weird now but that's ok. I hope you have a great day!! :)

Gimme Glitter: Birthday Skittles

Hi there, I mentioned end of last post that I got quite a few polishes to play with recently so I have some of them here today. I want to mention now that I'm very busy right now so posting will not be as frequent 'til hopefully the beginning of December (which I cannot wait for for!!). Also for the next while I'm going to be playing with my new polishes so you'll be seeing a lot of them.

It's no secret I love glitter (I have posts dedicated to glitter, hint number 1 ;)) and having some glitter skittles only made sense (and I have more glitter to play with hehehehehehehehehehe glitter ^_^). I am so thankful for my lovely friends for being so thoughtful and kind to get me these polishes ^_^ 

I have to say Prickly Pear and The Teen Queen together are my favourite combo with The Teen Queen it's beyond sweet and pretty. It was one of the layering possibilities for me and I LOVE it. 

I know bar glitter is a controversial thing, but honestly from my limited experience (this is my first bar glitter polishes) I think they're quite good. I guess I don't mind the hairy look. It seems to me that everyone hates bar glitter but I really hope there's someone out there loving bar glitter and all the bar polishes being put out in all it's variations.

Base and glitter
I used 1-2 coats for each glitter, all were pretty packed but required a little bit of gap filling.
Thumb: Models Own - Beach Party and Barry M - Sour Apple
Index: Nails Inc - Baker Street and Barry M - Boots LE D (I think the other name for this could be Mardi Gras but until I'm sure I'm using the other name edit: the name is actually Tinsel Town).
I love the Barry M limited editions, I've been checking Superdrug but they haven't got theirs yet. But trust me once they have them I will be pouncing.
Middle: Barry M - Prickly Pear and Hare Polish - The Teen Queen
Ring: Barry M - Matt White and The Face Shop - Vanilla Sugar Yogurt
Pinky: Color Club - Wing Fling and Orly - Ridiculously Regal
I may have mentioned in the past that I hate plum (the colour), but when it comes to glitter, EVERYTHING IS ACCEPTABLE.

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

Gimme Glitter: Hare Polish - The Teen Queen

Hello there you fine folks!! Happy Friday, I'm looking forward to sorting out my work and have my organisation not resemble a shambles :P This is my 2nd ever indie polish and I was totes excite. I'm very picky about my indies but this was sooooooooooooo pretty I had to. Also I really like Hare Polish as a brand, the combos are usually very unusual but simultaneously so beautiful. I got this exactly 10 working days after I ordered, and for an international order I think that's pretty great.

The Teen Queen is very small, small and medium blue matte hexes, medium and largeish baby pink hexes, baby pink squares and a blue shimmer that flashes green sometimes. From The Last Queen of France collection. The mix of glitter is just so pretty and feminine, I'm in love with the bright blue glitter. And the underlying shimmer is gorgeous. I just love matte glitter and this is abundant with it and it has such a sweet feeling to it.

I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THE BOTTLE!!!

I was trying to get this polish around September time but I was there at the restock 2 hours after and thought "I'll buy it tomorrow". As you can guess it was out of stock tomorrow. 

But October's restock I was there, a couple hours before I had the Hare Polish's etsy up on my screen and the minute the restock happened I was there and 3 minutes later my order was placed. Of course when I checked the next day this was still in stock, but it's better to be safe than having to wait another month. 

My excuse for buying this was doing well in exams and winning a prize at my school's prize day, but really. Did I need an excuse? :P I know some ladies have ninja polish buying skills and I want to become one of these ladies so I don't miss a beautiful polish. 

Formula was fabulous, it was very glitter packed and looky here. No bubbles!!! Who knew the day would ever come. I was debating about which polish to use it over, as I knew light blue would be a lovely base but I also wanted to a try a darker blue so the shimmer would come out. Then ping! I use a gradient (it's really not that complicated myself -_-). I also have this shown over green. 

I used 2 glitter packed coats (cause glitter packed is my style) over (lightest to darkest) The Face Shop - BL601, Revlon - Dreamer and Barry M - Indigo. Obviously my gradient wasn't so hot, but the focus was the glitter and yes I was very much focused on it. 

Finally a matte picture, doesn't look that different in photos but the shimmer looked even nicer and the glitter looked more prominent (sad that my matte topcoat cracked the mani if you know what I'm talking about -_-). I very much loved having this manicure on, The Teen Queen is one beautiful glitter. 

Thank you very much for reading this post about glitter (a special one at that though) and I hope you have a lovely day!! :)

Pink Gradient Nails + Neon Glitter

Hi there guys!! Hope you're doing good, I'm enjoying this time off school I'm getting. Even though I'm gonna have a ton of work, this is my life :P I wanted neon glitter so I did neon glitter. I stated that I've been getting pink into all of designs from the 2nd half of this month, for breast cancer awareness month.
What I've got from this awareness month is to check frequently because this affects a lot of woman and the more you check the more chance one has of ridding it. As I stated (in a quite embarrassing fashion) last year, I do believe that one day that there'll be a cure for cancer. I might continue this pink thing for the 1st half of November though I am a pink lover so it shouldn't be hard for me. Oh yeah there's a major lack of Halloween designs this month, I don't really like Halloween all that much and I tried last year (see: October 2012 in my archives :P) but frankly I'd rather be doing my pink designs. Ok to the mani!!

This manicure looks awesome in real life, you know me and all things neon. Especially this neon glitter, I have raved many a time. The gradient was pretty rubbish but glitter does magic to gradients. My pale pink is gloopy and sparse so I could not get it to blend. I got the brush and dabbed but add glitter and the gradient appears. Neon glitter does not look particularly good over darker colours (the hot pink) but it was necessary for the gradient and hopefully I won't be doing that again. I'm glad I got the white in there cause the neon glitter looks best over white. Obviously there are bubbles, I can't avoid those things.

White: Barry M - Matt White
Light Pink: Barry M - Strawberry Ice Cream
Hot Pink: The Face Shop - PK105
Neon Glitter: Lush Lacquer - Clowning Around
Purple glitter is still bleeding and is very faded (you see a faint piece of glitter, that's the purple glitter), here's my original post to show the comparison of the purple glitter but the base actually isn't that pink from the bleeding. It would work for this look but honestly the base is still pretty clear. 2 coats used here.

Thanks for reading and I hope you have a happy halloween!! :)

Combo: Get That Magic Sky

Hi there guys, I wasn't going to do a post on this but I was browsing through my pictures and I saw these pictures and remembered how awesome the combo was. I took pictures for a reason and it would be a waste not to share (also it helps when I want to get some posts up). I used this as a base for my inspired by artwork challenge prompt. I wanted to get a magical dark sky, and this fit the criteria.

I found out that Get Your Number looks amazing over a dark base, as I've mentioned before it wasn't really grabbing me by itself, in my own words it was "dull". But really if Get Your Number had more bright qualities I was easily love it as much as I love Jinx. The holographic glitter just really comes out and I always agree with that (holographic glitter is my favourite). But isn't the colour so nice?

 I did a big paragraph in my challenge post about this, but really it's one coat of Kiko - 265 (though any dark blue would've worked, 265 is particularly dark) and 2 coats of OPI - Get Your Number. w7 - Polar Bare and Nails Inc - Abbey Road were a bit pointless in this look but they are there. I top-coated this to bring out the holographic glitter/shimmer and yeah I preferred this polish not textured even though I am LOVING the texture trend.

Reason why I LOVE holographic glitter, I could stare at the glitter changing colour all day (and I have). And it's blue, I love blue. Though Get Your Number will never compare to Jinx for me, it's trying it's best and it does look pretty great here.

Nice and kind of short today, thanks for reading and I hope you have a great day!! :)

Pink Nails: Nails Inc - Notting Hill Gate (Reswatched)

Hi there guys!! Happy Sunday!! I'm reswatching this polish cause personally I am not happy with my previous "swatch", the lighting was weird and it's just not very good (though I have done worse). Also it's a neon pink, you know me and neons, we go well together.
Here's the original post on this polish, I'll probably write similar things as it's the same polish, but I wanted to do some kind of justice to this polish. Things were shaky in January, much better than previously. But I was still trying to find my feet photography-wise, but now my "swatching" is much better than before, in many ways.
By the way since it's Breast Cancer Awareness month I'm gonna try and incorporate pink into as many manicures as possible for the rest of the month. Not gonna be to bad as I love pink.

A nice orange-toned pink neon polish (actually I no longer what tone is what anymore). From when Nails Inc released those neons last summer-ish. Some of those polishes weren't properly neon, but this one is (over white). As you can imagine it's rather bright. As from last post I still want the full size but I'm resisting as I still have over half left in the 4ml bottle.

I just love the colour, now I have another pink neon which I love more (sorry Notting Hill Gate), I hope to do a post on that soon-ish or just use it again in general. But a reason why I won't buy this again is 1. I'm a controlled gal. 2. I don't use it all that often due to it needing a white base. 3.I know there are cheaper better alternatives (sorry Notting Hill Gate). Now I don't mind the white base thing but in nail art you'd rather use the polishes that don't need the white base no matter how much you love the colour.

2 coats over white (Barry M - Matt White), it dries semi-matte. The mini brush isn't the best thing ever but it's ok, easy to be messy though. It doesn't level out perfectly, as in the rims aren't as well covered and it's mildly streaky. Haha what do I care it's neon.

Thanks for reading and I hope you have a wonderful day!! :)

Purple Nails: Barry M - Berry Ice Cream

Hi there guys!! Happy October!! :) I think most people are finishing the challenge today and blah-di-blah I'm really busy blah blah blah, so I'm taking my time to get there but I have to say I'm really enjoying it and I really like what I've done for the challenge.
So some nice plain purple nails today, this was also my first ever pale purple polish (the pale purples have grown since then). I think I had a bad first experience with this polish so I thought it sucked -_- I'm wrong all the time, this was another instance where I was wrong but this was at the beginning of the nail obsession so I didn't know much. But beginning of this year I realised how amazing this polish is and now it's one of my favourites.

I deplenished half the bottle and I only really started using it this year. The thing that makes this lovely for me is the pink tone that Berry Ice Cream has. Oh yeah pale purple really doesn't suit me, washes me out like nobody's business but this is so wearable, and though it doesn't suit me completely it's such a pretty colour that I don't care.

I mentioned I got this polish a while ago, but really I mean it was quite the while and it's not gloopy. I love that cause I can't deal with gloopy polishes. I guess this was part of Barry M's Ice Cream collection consisting of pastels, I own a few as you may have seen on this blog. I now love pale purple polish due to this polish and Barry M - Prickly Pear.

2 easy coats and you're set, I used 3 for the odd nail when it was slightly streaky but 2 coats is really all that is required. I used to not like this polish cause 1. It was pale purple and 2. I thought it took forever to dry. It doesn't take forever to dry we've already established that the colour is gorgeous and I'm wrong.

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

Green Nails: Barry M - Greenberry

Hi there!! I have been so busy lately and definitely once the challenge is over the posts will drop in volume. I never anticipated for the crazy that has jumped into my life. There was me thinking I could handle another challenge, that is NOT the case, ambitious cause there is just no way I could've handled it.
So I have a swatch today, the beautiful Barry M Greenberry, this is my old perfect colour with the perfect formula and it's just a fabulous polish.

Sorry for the red-ish pictures, I had to colour correct cause my camera hates green polish

Greenberry is a bright blue-y green, so gorgeous, the colour is just the best. This is another from the Barry M Gelly range and clearly I need all of them (this is going to be a problem :/). I think the polish can lean even greener than in the pictures, it is Greenberry for a reason.

I have no bad things, I'll once again make a comparison with Topshop Green Room where the bottom line is Greenberry is a million times better even though they are virtually the same colour. I'm not even that fussy when it comes to formula. This is not your standard jade or mint polish.

2 coats that glided perfectly, no fuss, I think the brush is good as I had very little clean up. I've got away with 1 coat if it was thick enough and I have long nails, it's almost a guaranteed one coat for short nails.

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

Beige Nails: Ciate - Cookies and Cream

Oh hello there!!! I don't have a 31 day challenge post today, so I'll be behind from now on haha. I did say there'd be a point where I'd do this challenge on my own terms and that is now!! Hey, I did 16 days in a row!! I do actually have my design today ready but I didn't take pictures in time so no post today, so I have a "filler" "swatch" today.
I think this is my first neutral nails post cause I never post neutral nails. I got this polish in June with a Marie Claire magazine along with some Ciate caviar beads (Shooting Star). It was the only reason I bought the magazine. I am not really interested in fashion so these magazines are wasted on me, but free nail polish is not. It came in quite a cute box too. But the labels on both bottles are mixed up (e.g. Cookies and Cream has a label saying Shooting Star on the back).

I'm just so meh about neutrals, I think this is a pretty colour but it doesn't do anything for me. It would be a great base for nail art I guess (on that note I do have nail art on this). I just can't bring myself to love a neutral (also I prefer Nails Inc - Porchester Square). These snazzy brands with their nice neutrals are wasted on me.

First Ciate polish, not many polishes from the brand interest me. They're nice, but in my opinion dupable and not worth the price. Also I find cheaper polishes tend to be nicer. But the name is super cute!!

I used 3 coats, 2 probably would've been enough but there were some streaky patches. And yeah there are bubbles on my pinky, my fault, obviously I should've been a bit more patient. It applied great, glided and the brush fit my nails well. Oh this is a nice polish just not my thing.

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

Combo: Ice Queen and Punk Princess

Hi there!!! My freedom was taken away, as school began again. Sad times for all the people going to school, including me. We all know school is not a bundle of fun times. I have a combo post today and I haven't done one of these in ages, I think I've been doing so many Gimme Glitters that combos have kind of been neglected. I was meant to do some nail art on top but I loved the glitter combos that I went without. Also I know the title is really lame but I love it, I feel really clever that I connected queen and princess together even though that's not very clever :/ Fun fact: I have exactly 15 Gimme Glitter and Combo posts each (super interesting I know).

My favourite things about this manicure are the sheer white hexes over the dark blue and the black glitter over the pink. These are the "ice queen" and "punk princess" elements.

The pink is Color Club - Wing Fling an extremely pretty glass flecked pink (2 coats) and the blue is Kiko - 266 (2 coats), I borrowed this from a friend as my go to dark blue (Barry M - Indigo) has been low for a while. I own Kiko - 265 which I thought was a cool coincidence and my friend did not haha, I get excited over little things.

On the blue nails I used 2 coats of OPI - Last Friday Night, which I just love the aqua micro-shimmer within that pops over dark blue. And 1 coat of OPI - Pirouette My Whistle, and I'm in love with those sheer white hexes which I always have to mention cause they're gorgeous.
On the pink nails I used Barry M - Ruby, I actually like how the pink glitter blends in with the base cause it looks like just black glitter on the nails. I want to use Ruby over a lighter pink cause I know it'll look awesome cause Ruby is an awesome polish. I used 2 coats and then some cause I wanted a lot of glitter, I think I went a bit overboard (it happens a lot) cause the pink base isn't coming through that well but I still like it. The formula is also awesome, it spreads on so easily and there's no migrating to the tips issues. Ruby is pretty different to OPI - Minnie Style but I much prefer it, better formula and looks better, the black glitter is super edgy haha.

Thanks for reading, I hope you liked the look and have a great day!! :)