Blue Nails: Barry M - Indigo

Hey there guys!! How is it October already?? I was starting school yesterday and now a month has past and it's October :/ This post was a long time coming but my bottle was running low and it's difficult to get polish out!! This is also my final reswatch, you couldn't even call my last swatch of this a swatch cause it was so gross in every way and I didn't even write much about it.

Indigo is a lovely dark blue with purple tones (as you'd suspect with a polish called Indigo) which can be demure sometimes but bright other times depending on the lighting. Really pretty colour here, my favourite dark blue and just a great blue in general. I would so use it more if my polish wasn't so deplenished, I used to use this colour a lot when the bottle was fuller.

This is a pretty old Barry M and I got it in 2011, always been quality that Barry M. This polish made it into my 2012 favourites which attests to it's greatness. You know many a Barry has been in my favourite, it's just the best and nobody does it better. I am pumped to check out the new Autumn Gelly collection :)

I just want to say that the brush of this polish is very thin (not all Barry M's just this one) so that's why it's difficult to get polish out.
I was afraid to use this polish but it was so much more opaque than I expected!! I used 2 coats and that was all I needed. Also why the coats took a bit more effort and patience, it was worth it and not even that big of a hassle. So it's acc great, even more so if you have a full bottle!!

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

Tessellating Triangle Nails

Hey there!! Life's been a little bit hectic lately but I'm trying to find balance. My whole life I've been trying to find balance and I don't think I've got there yet, balance is hard. So today I have some funky cool geometric nails, I just love triangles so here I am more triangles but colourful ones that look quite cool.

I had a silver base and I guess I just wanted some geometric nails then I saw a cool triangle pattern. I painted the triangles with the flow cause I just kind of gave up with following the pattern. So I went a bit loose and free with the triangles. I have to say the textured polishes made the design, the extra sparkle and something something was really significant.

I used my toothpicks and just freehanded them triangles. When it came to positioning I tried to get them all the same size (hard, it was hard and I didn't complete succeed) and I just guessed where the triangles would fit in the design. It was quite successful overall I guess. All the colours do make me happy. 

Silver: w7 - Silver Mirror

Textured Blue: Essie - Lots Of Lux

Teal: Barry M - Guava

Textured Purple: OPI - My Current Crush

Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina

Green: Barry M - Kiwi

Aqua Green: Barry M - Greenberry

Sparkly Red: OPI - Jinx over Barry M - Carousel

Light Orange: Rimmel - It's a Scorcher!

Orange: Essie - Fear Or Desire

Dark Blue: H&M - Blue My Mind

Blue: Essie - Bikini So Teeny

Robin egg's Blue: Barry M - Sugar Apple

Peachy Pink: Etude House - No. 60

Redy Pink: OPI - Charged Up Cherry

Pink with texture: Orly - Basket Case and Barry M - Princess (which isn't the best combo)

Light Green: China Glaze - I'm With The Lifeguard

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

Brown Nails: The Face Shop - GL112

Hello there guys!! It's another swatch today and this has to be one of my favourite brown polishes. Again not that means much but it is true. This is a cool polish that I was given ages ago and there's no sign of gloopiness whatsoever.

GL112 (cool name bro) is a shimmery foil-like light brown which can have a subtle green/purple shimmer. As I said it's a cool polish and it's very shiny in a reflective sense which is always nice.

This is quite an old Face Shop polish, it's in the old style of bottle (which isn't actually that old) and I don't think it's available anymore :/ But from all The Face Shop polishes I show here I do really like them and the gems are really fantastic.

I used 2 medium coats for full opacity but in my pictures it seems it isn't opaque was it definitely was in real life and the formula applied very well, no issues.

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

Nautical Print Nails

Hello there guys!! I was feeling like some nautical nails and so I did some nautical nails. Nautical never disappoint me, they're like textbook cute with a great colour combo and really cute patterns. I really like this one today!! :)

So I was going for different nautical "prints" with hearts, anchors, stars and stripes. I really like that heart print, ever since my Reese and Cyrus Animal Crossing design I have been <3ing heart print, it's so simple but SO CUTE!! I always like anchors so that worked well for me. The duff nail is the star and stripe one but I think it adds to the design; go double accents ya'hear!!
Also Last Friday Night is such a super pretty polish, I totally forgot. It's the perfect subtle, delicate (that blue shimmer though) glitter.

For all the prints I used my toothpicks carefully and the stripes were with the brush of the polish, that's why they a little bit messy (but such are stripes).

Light Blue: Barry M - Sugar Apple
Red: Essie - E-nuff Is E-nuff
Blue: H&M - Blue My Mind
White: Barry M - Matt White
Teal: Barry M - Guava
Glitter: OPI - Last Friday Night

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

Silver Nails: w7 - Silver Mirror

Hey there guys, I did this is my first edition of Silver Nails!! I've never owned a silver polish before. I guess it's not really my colour and it's not really a colour people give cause ya'know it's all about the brights. This isn't even my polish, I stole it from my sister hahahahahahahaha. Don't worry she doesn't mind. Is silver an unloved colour? You decide.

Silver Mirror is as you can guess a silver polish, I reckon it's more a foil than a chrome or anything like that. Not that I know much about foils or chromes or anything. But yeah I like it, it's cool, and it's kind of reflective.

Silver Mirror is a great name, this polish doesn't reflect images (ok I know it's not gonna be a real mirror polish). w7 has always created solid polishes and this is no exception, I've shown a lot of w7 polishes on this here blog and I really don't think I've come across a terrible one in any way. You want a solid silver polish, Silver Mirror is a good place to start.

The formula of foils tend to be very good and yes Silver Mirror does follow that pattern.I used 2 coats and the opacity was there and the formula was easy to work with. A downfall though, is that the tipwear for this is real. This polish wears away so easily, of course some topcoat would fix this but sometimes a girl doesn't always wear topcoat and she doesn't like to see the tips of her nails, hypothetically.

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

The totally doable I have a life challenge! - Ikat monster

Hey there fine fellows, I have the final bonus part of the challenge today as this was one of the ones I missed in the early stages of the challenge and of course I wouldn't pass up a good ikat. I really like how they look!! I did want to do something a little different from your regular ikat, and this is what came of that.

Hopefully you can see the angry, not amused face on the 3 fingers in the middle. It's a monster. The thumb and pinky have spiky claw-like ikat print. This is how I do different. Yeah it's not my cutest look which is a reason why I'm not in love with it. But I'm happy with my branching out, trying something new!! Also with the glitter I included for this look; it looks great matte.

So I freehanded the white part with the brush of the polish. Actually I did the whole coloured bit with the brushes of polishes as I got too lazy to use the toothpick. I tried to do artistic strokes (like I've been doing a lot recently) and finally I used my black pen for the outlines and evil eyes and sad faces. Maybe I should've made it angrier.

Sorry for the slight blur

Purple: OPI - Plum & Get It, Models Own - Indian Ocean and OPI - Polka.com
White: Barry M - Matt White
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Yellow: American Apparel - Neon Yellow
Orange: Models Own - Beach Party
Pink: Barry M - Superdrug Summer LE 2013 A
Green: Barry M - Greenberry
Blue: Essie - Lots Of Lux
Red: Barry M - Carousel

This is the conclusion of this challenge and I had fun with the prompts and messing with them. I came up with some pretty wacky stuff sometimes. It's nice to do a challenge for once, as it may be a while 'til I do another one :/ Always busy I am. Thank you for reading and I hope you have a cool day!! :)

Purple Nails: OPI - Plum & Get It (Reswatched)

Hello!! We're still reswatching (not for much longer, I only have 1 more polish to reswatch!!) as my last swatch had major tip wear that for some reason I didn't fix up. But anyway today's swatch is much better and this is a nice polish. For the last while I have been a purple girl, it's a great colour.

Plum & Get It (appreciate the pun but it's not the best) is a deep purple with a hint of subtle shimmer and it's a cool polish. My only dark purple and it's a good one, look how nice it is in the pictures!! Even a not purple fan can enjoy this cause it looks all glowy.

You guys know I like an OPI, some may think they're overrated but I still really like them. Their cremes cannot be faulted and some of their glitter polishes are legit. I got this here polish from my bezzie, probably TK Maxx cause TK Maxx is a boss and seriously you can the best prices on nail polish.

I'm pretty sure this is a legit 3 coater, 2 thick coats would do the same job but for my thickness of coats I need 3. It glides well and there's really no formula issues but it's not a beautiful formula if you know what I mean.

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