Pink Nails: Per Una - Fuchsia (no name)

Hi guys!! This is part of the swatch marathon, what comes with the swatch marathon are really old polishes that are nearly running out (see what I did there what the marathon analogy??) so I avoid swatching them cause of the trouble of gloopy, polish at the bottom of the bottle polishes. However this wasn't too bad even though it's a really really old polish.

Yeah these polishes are also the kind that come with no name but this one is a nice dark (you know what I mean?) fuchsia creme with a subtle blue shimmer. I'm always a sucker for pink so I like this, it's not love but it's nice.

When I say this is old I mean it, it's like over 7 years old. The fact that it still functions is very impressive. Per Una was (is?) a brand linked to Marks & Spencers and I'm pretty sure it mostly did clothes. I think my neighbours gave this to me and they would not remember doing so cause it was quite a while ago and I wasn't that big into polish at the time (oh how time would change that).

This was crazily opaque for what it is, I used 2 coats for these pictures but so opaque and not very gloopy at all. If anything the only reason is was slightly difficult to apply is because there's so little left (I didn't have much nail polish as a child hahaha) so I had to swirl the brush all crazily, but otherwise the formula is really good!!

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

Fuchsia + Cobalt Tribal

Hello there you lovely people!! The long week is thankfully over, I was expecting this week to be much worse but it was surprisingly fun. Except today, today was kind of boring but hey you can't have it all ;) Title look familiar? What?? It doesn't?? Said no one ever. This design was very much inspired by Chalkboard Nails, she created this tribal and I was enamoured (I love that word) the moment I saw it on her Instagram (which I stalk like a baws). Seriously, I needed this on my nails the moment I saw it, the colour combination is just amazing. So yeah, I was there and it was happening. Picture spam (of my standard) coming up.

Lol at me trying to be Chalkboard Nails and failing :P

I just love it, the same way I LOVE Chalkboard Nails. Her nail art is SO GOOD, she's so funny and her photography = mind blown, it's so beautiful. I of course chose matte cause it's my preferred finish as matte is the way forward. But I have smooth pictures too.

My neutral base was Nails Inc - Porchester Square. I liked that I had appropriate substitutes for the colours Sarah used. Porchester Square is also my favourite neutral (not really saying much let's be honest), I had 2 rejected polishes for this polishes due to them being too sheer and I didn't want to completely copy. Also unlike everyone else I am not obsessed with My Vampire Is Buff.
For more variation I laterally inverted (ok maybe it's not lateral inversion but it sounds so much cooler) the thumb and ring finger.
My favourite nail is probably my ring finger, I really like the pink base for the tribal. Which was Barry M - Fuchsia which is continuing to grow on me. It's the same colour as my duvet (just so all you know this important piece of information)!!
And the cobalt is Nails Inc - Baker Street, that babe of a polish. It's just gorgeous.
All the polishes were super opaque (which is so handy), 2 coats for the base except I got away with 1 coat for my index finger (which you can't even see). You gals with short nails, 1 coaters all around.
Finally I used my black nail art pen Lovely Me:Ex - Black (when do I not use this pen?) for the details. I knew that my triangles wouldn't have to be perfect cause the pen would cover and fix it all up.

Smooth pictures coming up!! 

Another thing perfect about this design are the triangles. Triangles are the bayest!! When it comes to geometric, triangles are my favourite!!!
I wanted to smooth before mattifying, so I used my Color Club topcoat. Topcoat has always been a risky thing for me, normally I wait a day or two to prevent smudging. Only for the design to smudge anyway. But I waited max. an hour after finishing but that topcoat was so fantabluous there was no smudging and smooth as glass. Color Club topcoat = my favourite topcoat 5ever (oh yeah, 5ever, I went there).
Tiny problem is that since the coats are thick (required for smoothness and not messing up the design) it's easy for pooling in the cuticles, and due to the gel-like consistency sometimes it looks a tash weird, getting rid of it looks... weird (it's hard to explain) and it's quite difficult to remove from the cuticles. Solution = be careful unlike myself.
The problem is Color Club is not sold separately here, so I have to buy them in sets. Therefore to get more topcoat I have to buy many, many more Color Clubs in many, many more sets. What a shame ;)

Thanks to Sarah for her incredible design that I am absolutely loving. And thank YOU very much for reading!!! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!! :D

Pink Nails: Barry M - Fuchsia

Hi there guys!! I assume that you enjoyed your 12 hours of pranks yesterday. I have never actually played a big joke on anyone on April Fool's day, I just can't be bothered. But in other news I fell for every single April Fool blog post and Youtube video. Seriously, it would take me an age before I would process the date, and be like "Ohhhhh, I actually I fell for that" -_- Really some of it was ridiculous. Today I have a new polish (WAHOO!!!), I love me some Barry M and I picked up this one. Yeah that's it, nothing else.

Well ok maybe not nothing else (I have a story for everything, normally terrible but that doesn't stop me), I have been looking for a pinky purpley polish and I found the perfect one. Illamasqua Obsess (is more blue-toned than Fuchsia and is beautiful), the problem is I had a ton of Illamasqua polishes on my wishlist ("a ton" being 3) but I don't have the money for 3 and I'm just not willing, so I had to find a suitable replacement. Which was this polish. By the way I only have 1 Illamasqua polish on my wishlist now, even though they are expensive I do think it's worth it as the colours are gorgeous and the formula is wonderful.

I've spent more time talking about polishes not even in this post -_- Anyway Fuchsia is a gorgeous colour, it's difficult to photograph, I tried my hardest with my editing skillz to get it colour accurate but I couldn't quite get it there. It's very close but I'll say it's a touch darker and a tiny bit more red-toned. It was pretty much a 1 coater (but I did 2), the formula is great, somewhat runny but it doesn't pool in the cuticles. Hmm let me describe the colour, it's fuchsia. On the hint of red side dark pink (what fuchsia is basically). Why it took me so long to own this one I'll never know, another winner from Barry M I say.

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