Green Nails: Topshop - Green Room

Hi there my fine folks!! I'll tell you honestly, I never expected to write this post cause I never expected to swatch this polish. Using it was also an accident, for some nail art I was doing (which I'll show soon), I wanted my base to have a hint more green which looked streaky and then eventually I went full Green Room. But to be honest I'm glad.

I've given Green Room a lot of hate in the past (yet I never put it in the purge pile, maybe inside I knew I'd change my mind) because of the rubbish formula (I'm not even that fussy about formula!!) and once I got Barry M Greenberry I thought there was no point to Green Room.
But Green Room is an aqua-ish green and I just get really tropical vibes from it that I really like. And it's different from Greenberry, it's slightly darker and more aqua. It's actually a really really nice colour (and it was the perfect base for the nail art). My camera still hates green so I tried to get it as colour accurate as possible, I think I did a respectable job and it may be a hint more green/aqua.

It reminds me why I wanted to get this polish in the first place, because of the awesome colour. I got it with Razzmatazz (which I loved, it came number 2 in my year end favourites). I've mentioned this before too but Green Room is amazing for jelly sandwiches. Generally I love Topshop nail polish, the ones I have are great and I think the colours they are putting out are gorgeous, occasionally unique and with very great formulas (I think Green Room just missed out on the generally amazing formula).

I had 3 coats of Revlon Blue Lagoon on, then I added 3 coats of Green Room. Green Room cannot be worn on it's own, cause from previous experiences, I used 5 coats and VNL was still as clear as day. I haven't texted since that day a while back but it scarred me (:P). However I found this time that the opacity of each coat was pretty decent. Green Room has redeemed itself (but never wear it on it's own)!!

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

Combo: Mermaid's Dream

I didn't name this Mermaid's Dream because I think that it's the same as the Deborah Lippmann polish. But because it's my version of Mermaid's Dream. (But personally I think that my base colour is nicer than Deborah Lippmann's Mermaid's Dream :P).



It could've been perfect, but Revlon - Radiant lets it down. The blue glitter particles are just too small, if they were slightly bigger and more spread out it could've been amazing. Well until I find that polish that also has larger green and silver glitter pieces, this will have to do. Otherwise it's still pretty :3.  



I started with Topshop - Green Room. That polish disappointed me, and also it is nothing like the photos, every lighting I tried. Still could not capture the colour :( Seriously I looked at this picture and thought "What is this beautiful colour before me?". I wish Green Room was like that. I could see my nail line with this polish and it is very green. I know it's called Green Room but the bottle looked really blue (and beautiful), it's green and not a particularly nice shade. Also, I HATE VISIBLE NAIL LINES!!! If it's a little bit I can handle it, but even after 4-5 coats it was still clear as day. And I hate it. Of course the solution was a white base. No7 - Snowflake. 3 coats white and 2 coats blue/green. Even after this step I really liked it.

Ok the magic ingredient, w7 - Polar Bare. I'm sure any frosty white sheer polish would do, but I hadn't used this much as I wasn't sure when to use it. Here, I found I should use it here. I love this base, I've used it for bases of nail art cause I love it. One coat. Also it's not that brush strokey.

Then finally Radiant, 2 coats. Problems stated above. Overall pretty successful but more polish searching for me ^_^