Top 15 Nail Polishes Of 2013: Part 1

Hello there guys!! Here we are, favourite polishes of last year!! I feel like doing it in January gives the cycle completion and I guess the year wasn't finished cause you never know you might find your favourite polish on the 31st of December (though it's highly unlikely). Not everyone does these but I LOVE IT. I'm obviously not the most qualified considering I don't get masses and masses of polishes a year (and I'm glad, I like using my polishes well) but I love giving polishes the love they deserve. As you can tell last year's top 10 polishes (see: January 2013 in the archive ;)) have now turned into the top 15. There was me halfway through the year thinking I wouldn't even get a top 10, yeah... Oops?

And the end of the year always brings the most polish compared to the rest of the year and then there's the mass "swatching" and debating what to include. This list was not easy to compile, I kept rearranging the order and reconsidering everything but I think I have got my final list. 

One thing about my list is that not all of these polishes came out in 2013, last year I wasn't too bad about having the same year polishes but this year, nope. My favourite polishes cannot be determined by year, but the colours that I love and feel happy having on my nails. That can't be wrong, so here are my top 15 polishes of 2013 starting at 15 (and split into 2 parts :P).

15. Barry M - Berry Ice Cream. There's no better way to start the list than with a Barry M. Oh Berry Ice Cream, the polish that began my journey as a purple fiend, now there's are tons of purple polishes that I'm loving and craving (which can be seen as a good or bad thing). The subtle pink tone is so pretty and it's a great base that I feel looks really nice with nail art. And is lovely as a stand alone polish!!

14. Color Club - Sky High. It's weird that I don't have that much blue polish in my favourites but this one is gorgeous. The purple duochrome really is something, it's mesmerising o.O

13. Nails Inc - Notting Hill Gate. I got this for Christmas last (last?) year, I can't say no to a neon. Especially if it's neon pink. This is a pretty fantastic neon pink, it's not got a perfect formula but I don't care, it's neon pink.

12. Etude House - WH901. I love matte glitter, I love pastel and all the little shaped glitter is SO cute. The holographic and white glitter are very nice touches to this polish, though the formula has little to desire it's so cute I can definitely forgive it.

11. Barry M - Greenberry. As I've mentioned this colour used to be my perfect colour, it's a stunner still though. I'm not particularly fussy when it comes to formula but this is really is perfect. It's lovely, it's bright, it's amazing.

10. Barry M - Dragon Fruit. The Barry M Gellies were stellar this year and expect to see more in this list. I love pink polish, it's probably irrational but I'm okay with that. The shade of Dragon Fruit is gorgeous. The silver shimmer in this is also gives this pink polish something special.

9. The Face Shop - Vanilla Sugar Yogurt. Rainbow glitter, and I was down. I don't know why I love the orange glitter in this but I do, but just look how much fun this polish is!! Like a fun, colourful cake.

Well this is the first half, second half coming tomorrow. I hope you currently like my picks, thank you for reading and I hope you have a fabulous day!! :)

Gimme Glitter: Birthday Skittles

Hi there, I mentioned end of last post that I got quite a few polishes to play with recently so I have some of them here today. I want to mention now that I'm very busy right now so posting will not be as frequent 'til hopefully the beginning of December (which I cannot wait for for!!). Also for the next while I'm going to be playing with my new polishes so you'll be seeing a lot of them.

It's no secret I love glitter (I have posts dedicated to glitter, hint number 1 ;)) and having some glitter skittles only made sense (and I have more glitter to play with hehehehehehehehehehe glitter ^_^). I am so thankful for my lovely friends for being so thoughtful and kind to get me these polishes ^_^ 

I have to say Prickly Pear and The Teen Queen together are my favourite combo with The Teen Queen it's beyond sweet and pretty. It was one of the layering possibilities for me and I LOVE it. 

I know bar glitter is a controversial thing, but honestly from my limited experience (this is my first bar glitter polishes) I think they're quite good. I guess I don't mind the hairy look. It seems to me that everyone hates bar glitter but I really hope there's someone out there loving bar glitter and all the bar polishes being put out in all it's variations.

Base and glitter
I used 1-2 coats for each glitter, all were pretty packed but required a little bit of gap filling.
Thumb: Models Own - Beach Party and Barry M - Sour Apple
Index: Nails Inc - Baker Street and Barry M - Boots LE D (I think the other name for this could be Mardi Gras but until I'm sure I'm using the other name edit: the name is actually Tinsel Town).
I love the Barry M limited editions, I've been checking Superdrug but they haven't got theirs yet. But trust me once they have them I will be pouncing.
Middle: Barry M - Prickly Pear and Hare Polish - The Teen Queen
Ring: Barry M - Matt White and The Face Shop - Vanilla Sugar Yogurt
Pinky: Color Club - Wing Fling and Orly - Ridiculously Regal
I may have mentioned in the past that I hate plum (the colour), but when it comes to glitter, EVERYTHING IS ACCEPTABLE.

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

Gimme Glitter: The Face Shop - Vanilla Sugar Yogurt 01

Hello there you fabulous folk!! Ok first thing's first, blog name change, I'm now here at www.plumeriapainted.blogspot.co.uk. I've been debating about changing it for a while and I took the plunge. It's a more nail related name though I did really like my old name. I'm getting used to PlumeriaPainted and I do really like it. I tried to make the changes I said I would make in a previous post but it was an epic fail haha (I suck at the internet), so I'm gonna keep working on it.
I just want to say I blog because I really enjoy it and I love it when I get a follower but I want this blog to continue because I love to and not for followers (though I appreciate it an incredible amount), if you get what I'm talking about. I hope you enjoy reading this blog and seeing the nail art (and "swatches") I produce. Just thanks again for that, I was thinking about it the other day and I had to write something about that.
Anyway back to the polish, I found out about this polish from Lacqueerisa, she's seriously the loveliest (emphasis on lovely) person I have encountered on the nail scene and she does the best geometric designs and yeah everyone should go and check out her blog cause I'm really grateful for the comments she's left on this blog and she recommends awesome polishes like the one I'm showing. So go!
It's The Face Shop - Vanilla Sugar Yogurt 01, the first Face Shop I went to the girl had no idea what I was talking about and it was kind of embarrassing but thankfully at the next Face Shop I went to this pretty polish was sitting there. I kind of got another polish from The Face Shop and I'll be showing that soon too.
Ok clearly I'm in a rambly mood (sorry 'bout that). To the pictures!! :)

Look at the prettiness!!! I'm in love with the glitter in this, near rainbow which I'm always on board with. I'm especially in love with the orange glitter, don't know why but it's awesome. So Vanilla Sugar Yogurt is a white base with red, orange, yellow, green, blue small and medium hexes and small purple hexes. Ok just loving all the hexes really. Lacqueerisa compared this with KBShimmer Oh Splat! in her post which I think is accurate but I think Oh Splat! also has larger medium hexes too. Come on who can deny how nice this polish is??

I was debating about this and another polish from the yogurt range, the purple one with gorgeous glitter within. But I convinced myself that I didn't need it cause I already own quite a lot of pale purples and if I ever get KBShimmer Where's My Peeps At I don't want a similar purple version (though I wouldn't mind having a similar purple one I wanted to be controlled haha).

I put 3 thin coats over Barry M - Matt White. I wanted the glitter packed look and the glitter payoff from each stroke was great. You can wear this by itself but I didn't want to. There was a bit of mild placing, but nothing major. The formula was not problematic at all.

I have a nail art look with this as the base and I kind of love it, looking forward to showing that to you :) Thank you for reading and I hope you have a fantastic day!! :D