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!! :)

Yellow Nails: M&S - Maize

Hi there!! It's swatch day and yellow polish, not my favourite colour but sometimes it's fun. This is my second last Marks and Spencers polish so we are working our way through. Not that I know if I'll finish swatching my collection anytime soon cause my life goes everywhere really haha.

Maize is an orange toned yellow with a subtle yellow shimmer and it's nice but you know not my thing. It also really doesn't suit me and I had to paint something over it cause that yellow and my skin tone were not working together.

You know M&S does nail polish? I do go up and check but their colours aren't blowing my mind so I'm leaving them be cause I have so much self-control (this is sarcasm cause I got new polish and the colours aren't exactly the most inspired haha) but I think it's very solid. I always like looking at nail polish no matter what kind, and when I don't have time.

Maize is definitely a layering polish, I used 4-5 coats for this swatch. It built decently and it wasn't thick at the end but you know yellow polishes generally tend to be more sheer. This is why I got bubbles though cause I wanted to the build it fast, the formula was good, it went on easily and there wasn't any streakiness or anything.

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

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!! :)