Brown Nails: M&S - Golden Sands

Hello you guys!! I hope you're enjoying this nice day. I know I've been away for a while but this has been a recurring theme this year. Exams are becoming very real very quickly, the backlog is also real but I hope I can catch up once all the exam madness is over. I can't wait cause these exams have kind of been the focus of my life for this year and I miss the blog. I miss painting, summer and chilling cannot come coon enough. Today I have a nice brown-ish polish to show you. It's my last M&S polish to show!! I had 12 and it only took me um a year or so to get them all up. Brown isn't really my colour but this is is genuinely super pretty!!

I know this is called Golden Sands I think it's much more of a shimmery brown than gold. So Golden Sands is a brown foil-y shimmer and it totally glows. I like that it has an orange tone to it, it brings the polish to life :P Honestly I think this polish is real nice and I did nail art on top and I loved that look, that'll go up soon (soon being a relative word).

M&S food is amazing, I love from there. Just saying M&S prawn crackers are some of the most addictive things, Chinese New Year was good. But yes I do wonder into their polish aisles and they've got a really good range of cremes, like they've got everything and I think their pricing is good. Just nothing that makes me need to run in and buy polish, but maybe now that I've swatched all my Marks and Spencer's polishes I'll try some more.

It may seem that the polish doesn't completely cover in the photos but it was fine in real life. I used 3 coats and it built really well. The formula is pretty thin so it dries fast so adding more coats wasn't an issue.

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

Black Nails: M&S - Petrol

Hello there!! This is the M&S polish that seriously blew my mind. Forget the fact they do nail polish at all, but a texture?? I was done. And it's mad gorgeous in the bottle, once I tried it on my nails oh my this is a beautiful polish, I was exciting to get a proper swatch of this. And I don't do black nails!!

Black texture with a very prominent (way more prominent than in the pictures) green shimmer THAT CHANGES TO PURPLE IN CERTAIN LIGHTING!! It was beautiful when the shimmer turned to purple and sometimes there was some green and some purple and blue perhaps even kind of yellow-ish and that was mind-blowing. Though sometimes when the polish was just black (the green was always there though) it was a bit average but in general, we have a mad pretty polish here.

Getting my way through swatching the Marks and Spencers's polishes, I probably won't swatch them all cause they aren't all my colours (e.g. brown) but I think I've done most of the ones I like. It's textured, I can't. I <3 textured polishes!!

I used 2 coats but I really should've used 3, even in pictures you can see that the polish isn't completely covering my nails. But it builds well and it easy to apply. The brush in general is pretty small though so many dips required (that sounds weird)?

Bonus topcoat pic!! This is how I mostly wore this, it darkens the black and makes the shimmer even more prominent (can't say no to that). I used 2 really thick coats of topcoat (Deborah Lippmann Addicted to Speed, it's not bad, no Color Club 3 in 1) and yet you could still feel and see the texture. I wasn't going to use more topcoat, so clearly this polish is a VERY textured one.

Haha thank you for reading this long post and I hope you have a great day!! :) 

Nude Nails: M&S - Sun Glow

Hi there guys!! Wow a nude nails post, who knew this would ever happen. And even crazier I really really really like this one. Who knew that would ever happen either!!

Sun Glow is a nude polish (sorry that is all I can describe cause I don't know enough about neutrals) with a lovely golden shimmer (that doesn't show up in pictures) that sometimes flecked orange/green. It's just so clean, almost refreshing. It's very pretty. I did not expect to like it as much as I do but it's lovely, almost mannequin hands. My skin tone is slightly darker, but it's like having no nail polish on but having nail polish on. That makes no sense but I'm not used to neutral nails.

I am so impressed by these M&S polishes as I've mentioned so many times, the colours are great and the formulas have been nice. Though Sun Glow was a big surprise polish for me.

I used 3 thick coats to eliminate all streaks. The formula on this one wasn't perfect but it was pretty good, and I don't mind extra coats. It went on nicely anyway. I can't say much more, it's good business.

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

Pink Nails: M&S - Peony

Hello there!! Sorry for the lack of nail art this month, I really am trying to get swatches of everything (well most things) cause I just like having swatches of everything, surely that can't be weird (or it really can be weird :/). And yes more M&S polish, this is another favourite. I love pink polish and the shade of this is gorgeous. I definitely not getting sick of these polishes, it's trying a bunch of a new brand and having it be great!!

Peony (cute name) is a lovely middle pink, the shade of a pink peony crazily enough with a lovely silver shimmer. I didn't expect to love this but once I had this on my nails the colour was gorgeous. Not like the other pinks I own too (and I own a lot of pink :/).

I already mentioned that I know M&S because of food but when I go to Asia I know my relatives think of M&S for clothes and stuff like that. It's strange, but I'm glad I can think of M&S too for nail polish :)

Ignore this duochrome looking thing, there's no duochrome (unfortunately for some) my camera was being weird

3 thin coats did the trick and it was nice to apply, can't ask for anything more than that (well maybe 2 coats but whatever). I also have nothing else to write about it. 

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

Blue Nails: M&S - Ultraviolet

Hi there guys!! Still off swatching this Marks and Spencer nail polish, and very much enjoying it. They made some good stuff and the set of 12 (for the 12 days of Christmas) I have is part of that good stuff. Here is one of my favourites, it's blue and a shade of blue I love. You guys should how much I LOVE Essie Bikini So Teeny and this colour is very reminiscent of it.

The polish is slightly less purple toned and more blue toned, the next picture will show that

Ultraviolet a very nice cornflower blue with the slightest hint of silver shimmer (but very slight, it's really only in the bottle). That's really all I can say (finally I stop rambling) but I love blue's like this.

I had to use 4 coats to eliminate all the streaks, they weren't terrible but it had to be done. I know 4 coats sounds like a lot but I have long nails and they were very thin coats. The formula was fine, as I always say shorter nails could probably do less coats.

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

Gimme Glitter: M&S - Light Mix

Hi there guys!! I hope you have keeping up with your resolutions if you made any and are persevering. I don't usually make resolutions, in yesteryears I did the whole stop biting your nails (yes, I used to be a biter!!) but then I actually did and gained another obsession haha. But this time I have legit ones which I want to progressively tackle, go self-improvement!!! One of the main ones is waste less time and less procrastination, that will be a hard one but determination is a thing, there's no use giving up before you've begun (haha I'm feeling so deep :P).
Anyway I have a super pretty glitter, like who knew M&S could come out with such awesome, I don't know if it's technically glitter but not like it really matters :)

Guys, this is SO pretty. Seriously. I don't know how to describe this, I don't want to call them shards because they're not they're not sharp and sticky out either. But they are not flakies either, I've decided it's "flards" or "shakies" both names I'm not particularly fond of lol. Also the type, I guess there's an element of iridescence there, but the "shakies" (:/) are mostly blue, green, purple, pink and peach, but pastel versions. I think Light Mix looks best over darker colours but I also have it over a pale base.

This is another from the limited edition set from M&S, seriously pretty polish I am so impressed. I tested it out over a both of colours on a sheet of paper but decided on this combo because it has a somewhat mermaid-y feel about it.

I used 1 packed coat for each nail over M&S - Peacock, it spread easily but if there wasn't a packed coat obviously not so many "flards" (oh gosh I hate using this term -_-) would be on the nail. But one thing I'm really happy about this polish is that none of the "shakies" stick out (cause I hate that!!) and bother me, it was all over smooth ever without topcoat.

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