Barry M foil effects

This is another nail varnish that I got for Christmas, it's the Barry M Foil Effects nail varnish in gold. It is a very striking polish and looks very dramatic on the nails. In this picture I have two coats of it on, but you could easily only wear one. I did think this polish was quite tricky to apply, you have to be very neat with it as it does go streaky. I would also recommend buffing your nails before using this polish as it does make any uneven parts of your nail quite noticeable.  I tried to do a design over this nail varnish but apart from adding glitter and rhinestones (which I have done far too much of lately) I couldn't think of anything else that would look good over it. Suggestions? I might try it under some foils, that could work well. 

I do like this polish, although it is a little tricky to apply I think the colour and effect is definitely worth it. Just need to think of a design to use it in. 

Essie- a cut above

Merry Christmas! I've just opened my stocking and was very delighted to see the prettiest pink glitter polish I have ever seen! It's Essie A Cut Above and I just could not wait to try it. I decided to layer it over Accessorize Cinder Rose and add a little silver circle stud at the base of my nails. It was very easy to apply; the glitter went on very evenly, only took a bit of arranging to get it beautifully distributed over my nail and I didn't need to use that much of the polish to get a nice amount of glitter on my nails. And it's just SO pretty!

Gosh Frosted Plum Reveiw

Gosh's Frosted Nail Laquer in Frosted Plum is an absolutely beautiful colour. It's a dark glittery purple polish with hints of gold in it. This polish is textured so it dries rough, it also dries to a matte finish and even after applying a topcoat is still quite matte. The opacity of this polish is very good, I found I only needed to apply one coat. If I hold it up to the light the tips go a tiny bit see though, but it'd be easily fixed with a second coat if it really bothered you, but I don't think it's needed.

Overall I am in love with this polish, it's so easy to work with and looks amazing. The only thing that would put me off wearing it is that I think these types of colours look best plain with no design on them, however I have done a simple design using this polish with glitter and rhinestones, which I will upload soon.

Natural Collection, Seventeen, Barry M and Maybelline review.

Today I went to boots and bought these nail varnishes, so I thought I'd share my thoughts on them.

I'll start off with the natural collections. These polishes were quite cheap at £1.89 each, but they were on 3 for £5 so I only paid £5 for them all.

From left to right the colours are; antique coral, pink manicure and peach manicure

In the picture, I have 3 coats of antique coral although it probably could've done with having four coats. This nail varnish was a little thin, but wasn't terribly so and it's a very pretty colour, it looks a little more pastel in real life than in the picture.

The other two nail varnishes I had to use 6 coats! Which I wasn't too pleased about, but then it dawned on me... They're probably designed for french manicures, so I tried that out and they worked fine!

Pink manicure on the left and peach manicure on the right.

Now for the maybelline polishes, these were £2.99 each but they were on offer so I got 3 for the price of 2

From left to right the colours are; red grained, tanned and ready, turquoise temptation.

All these polishes say vintage leather, I assumed this meant they would have a leather effect, no where on the bottle does it say they're meant to and I can't seem to find these colours on the boots or maybelline website, so I don't know if they're meant to or not. They all have a matte finish and little shimmery bits which you can't see when they're on your nail, you can only see them when you're putting your nail varnish on or taking it off, so I'm not quite sure what they're there for. I was quite disappointed with these as I was expecting a leather look, but I don't know if these polishes are designed to do that, I will use these colours, but just as I would use any nail varnish, not for their leather looks.

And finally my seventeen and Barry M polishes! These are all £3.99 each, but my two seventeen polishes were on sale so I got them for £2.99 each instead!

The seventeen polishes are both from the nail effects graffiti range. The one on the right is bluetone and on the left is monochrome. The Barry M is key lime and is one of their gelly polishes.

It only took one coat of the key lime for it to be completely opaque (it was quite a thick coat though, maybe 2 thin coats). It's a lovely colour as well, very vibrant!

The two graffiti polishes are very good too! Just the right amount of little bits (not quite sure what to call them) come out and they're very pretty... Not sure pretty is the right word, but they look good! I tried out monochrome over my yin and yang mani and I loved how it turned out!