Barry M Denim Swatches and Review

I have been in a nail rut today, nothing was going right :( I took off disappointing Teal and put on one of the unnamed Color Clubs buuuuut it refused to dry! So I took it off and put on Denim instead, hoping to love it but no.....it was a horrid experience. It was runny and thick and kept pooling at my cuticles and dripping down the sides of my nails after I'd applied it! It was so frustrating D: it genuinely looked like a 5 year old had done my nails.....

On top of that I had major tipwear after a few hours! All I had done was boil some eggs, go to the post office and I was in the darkroom for 3 hours printing so not exactly strenuous on my nails, I know it's a matte but that is ridiculous! 

It's a real shame cos it has potential to be amazing! It really does look like a pair of jeans, the silver flecks throughout are the same as the ones in OPIs I have a Herring Problem, it's a lovely deep blue but the formula and wear completely ruined this for me :( so disappointed. 

Barry M Teal Swatches

Hi, yesterday I managed to find four of the new Barry M shades, Silvery Lilac, Black Multi Glitter, Teal and Denim, I bought the last two as they were the most interesting. I believe that Silvery Lilac is the same as Topshop Hypnotic! That let me down so I assumed that the Barry M would. Anywhooo Teal, I wanted to love it but I think it let me down, in the bottle it has a purple flash but it is not visible on the nail. 

It's pretty enough but I feel like it's something I would have seen donkeys ago, it just feels old fashioned, and I don't understand the conection between the new colours, they don't scream summer to me.....but then Barry M isn't really into collections so that is probably why. I think I'll be taking it off tomorrow morning and changing it to Denim as that looks gorgeous!! I have it on four of my toes and it looks hot! Haha :) 


what do you guys think? 

Barry M Magnetic Dark Silver Part 2

Hey, as promised here is the second part of my Barry M review, I magnetised three nails and left the ring so that you can see the colour and finish difference :). I personally haven't seen this magnetic design before, I'd love to know if anyone else has, here it is

The magnet was really easy to use as it had the little guide that you rest on your finger, I liked the unusualness of the pattern that formed but I have noticed in these pictures that it makes my nails look weirdly rounded even though I am a strict squoval lover! Probably just an illusion. I like how dark and shiny they became without topcoat. Overall I had a nice experience using my first magnetic polish but I still really love the colour without the magnet :) I am happy with this purchase but I don't think I'll be getting the other colours as red, blue and purple/green are boring :P and I don't need anymore of those colours in my stash haha.

Hope you liked this, tomorrow I have another a-england polish :) woo

Barry M Magnetic Dark Silver Review Part 1

Hi, like I mentioned the other day I found two Barry M magnetic polishes, I thought there were 8 colours however I've now learnt that is not the case, there are only 4 red, silver, blue and green/purple I can't remember which :P. Anywho today I have my only one on, Magnetic Dark Silver, catchy name right ;), I am currently wearing it as a normal polish ie no magnetised patterns yet. What you are about to see is one easy peasy coat!

I chose this one as it was out of my comfort zone but wow I think it's gorgeous! It went on so easily and was opaque in one coat, it took a while to dry but that is probably the fault of my basecoats, these were taken without a topcoat on. It'll be a shame to do the magnetic pattern tomorrow cos I really love this as it is, it feels edgy and sophistocated at the same time and totally sexy, mwahah. I can't tell whether they were right to call it dark silver or not, it's definitely got a pewter, lead vibe to it and it has silver shimmer, so yeah I guess silver is right just a grown up silver. 

I know Barry M are late to the magnetic party but I'm glad they came, in love! Ha

Part two tomorrow :)

What do you guys think to it as a colour? 

Barry M Navy Swatches and Review

Hello Again! 
I have a much more positive post now, I have one of my all time favourite polishes on now after the disaster that was Butter London Bluey, it's Barry M Navy and the best part is that it only cost £2.75 back in the day when I bought it :). I think because mine is so old like 3 years!! it has gotten gloopy but I didn't care I had to put it on hehehe.

Gah! Aren't you just dying?! It's sooo beautiful! And this was one gloopy coat, now you can see why I put up with the gloop :) I love it even more than when I first bought it. It's so dark and juicy, can you tell I am in love? So gorgeous, I love it's sister Vivid Purple too but Navy is my favourite. It's like the perfect vampy in my opinion, it never looks black and it's super sexy and sophisticated. Everyone needs this! Love it! 

Hope you enjoy :)

Owly Manicure

Good Evening Girls :)

I've had some bad news today so in order to cheer myself up, I did what any polish addict would do ...no I didn't buy any new polish (I wish) I did the famously cute owl mani. It was really easy and fun to do and it looks so cute, so yeah that made me happy! Here they are 

I didn't have any other bright colours ie orange, yellow so I had to use brown but I think he's my favourite, I like how he tones down the rest of the colours :) also I like their sparkly noses hehee! 

Here are the colours I used starting with the base on the thumb:

Little Brown Dress - Essie, Mushroom - Barry M, Unknown blue - Barry M, Blueberry Ice cream - Barry M, Polish me Happy - H&M, Spring Green - Barry M, Purple Poppy - Models Own, Ultra Violet - Rimmel Pro, Limited Addiction - Essie and Vintage Pink - Models Own. 

For the eyes I used Sunshine Sparkle - Revlon and the beaks are Rising Star - OPI. 

I freehanded the base and belly using just the polish brush and then my new favourite dotting tools helped with the rest.

Lots of other bloggers have done this design for good reason, it's so frikin' cute! I'm not sure who did the original I found the other versions from google and Chalkboard nails and a girl and her polish, you should check them out :)

I hope you enjoyed! 

Seeyou soon

OPI Russian Navy Swatches and Review

Morning! 

I removed OotG this morning for the reasons that I mentioned yesterday, bubbles, scratches and gloomy weather which remains today :(. Because the weather is so miserable looking I didn't want to waste a gorgeous spring colour like I have a herring problem or Navigate Her, and the bright pink Snog would not feel right so I went with a vampy of course! From my untrieds, I chose Russian Navy as it is my kind of colour. 

As you can see it's a gorgeous deep, shiny blue however in the bottle it looks purple and even on the nail it looks a bit blurple, it's because it's made up of blue and red sparkles but it's super pretty whatever colour it is :P 

It looks really blue in the photo above this but here you can see the purple I was talking about. Because it looked so purple I got my favourite ever vampy purple out to compare the bottles 

This is Vivid Purple by Barry M, it's a polish I used to wear all the time along with it's blue sister :) but as you can see Barry M is a lot more purple and more vivid ;).

And here you can deffo see that Russian Navy has a little purple hint to her, she is actually blue. 

I had no problems with the application, after two coats it was opaque and rich in colour, I used a base coat first of course as these colours can stain and that was it, smooth as you like. I really love these types of colours and finishes, I think they suit everyone and they just look so elegant and super sexy. I especially like the way it looks with my cool skin tone and long nails, like I am a lady vampire ;). 

I managed to get a dint in my thumb :( boo, cos it took ages to dry for me so I used my miracle worker Sally Hansen Insta-Dri as a topcoat (after my nails were dry) and it bought the shimmer back to life and smoothed that dent right out. I can't stress how much I love this product, it is a life saver!! It just makes everything look perfect again and it feels so soft I love touching my nails when I have this on :P! 

I think if the weather is still crappy I might try my croc effect top coat as I'm going out for drinks with a good friend who I haven't seen in forever! I'm thinking either gold or pink or green or any other bright colour :D

Before I forget Models Own have just released a new collection of 5 shades for summer called the Kaleidoscope collection, I thought OMG they're doing Holos!! But no they're "pearlised distinctive shades, each to give a high-shine and gleaming colour" there's a blue, purple, raspberry, orange and yellow, they look a little boring from the promo shots, the orange might be interesting I would buy them but obv I'm on a no-buy :( *sigh* I could get them in secret? ;) jokes. I guess I'll just have to wait for someone to swatch them, I hope I'm wrong and that they are interesting! 

Seeyou soon :)

Pancake day Floral nails

Good morning! Today is my favourite day, Pancake day!! Woop I'll be having mine later with lots of golden syrup, so fatty but sooo tasty ;). So the other day I finally bought some dotting tools and I love them! Why have I only just invested? I say invested I got a set of 5 for £1.99 off ebay :P.

I can't believe it but yesterday I removed saint George after having on for 24 hours...I don't know what's happening to me, I'm going to blame the stupid British weather because yesterday was so gloomy and St. G deserves sun it just looked so sad on my nails without the sparkle so I had to take it off. I put on a very grown up colour (I'm only 19...) Mushroom by Barry M which I'm meant to be wearing Wednesday to Thursday but I've moved it up obv. 

It's a nice enough colour on its own, when applying it it looks just like melted milk chocolate! Yummmy.

It required 3 coats, nice application though, as usual with Barry M

But I'm not crazy about this colour, its just a bit bland and mature for me however it was the perfect base for me to try out my newly acquired dotting tools! Yay! I chose to do roses but they are more abstract flowers than roses per say. I like them alot I know this design has been done a trillion times, most likely better than mine but mine makes me happy :). I did yellow roses too because they are my favourite, they're so joyful. 

This is my left hand 

This is my right which went soo much better than my other hand, despite the fact that I am right handed, it always works out that way....weird

Sorry about the quality and dirt...taking a picture with your left hand is incredibly difficult :P

I used Barry M mushroom as the base

Sinful Colors Cabana as base of pink flowers

Essie Limited Addiction as shadow 

Revlon Sunshine Sparkle (how cuuute) as yellow base

Models Own 25 carot gold as shadow 

H&M Polish me happy as leaf base 

Essie Going Incognito as shadow

Phew! Hope you like it and have a good pancake day!!

Nail art inspiration comes from everywhere!

I'm sure my attention span is getting shorter ever since I started blogging, that explains why I post like a million things everyday ha! Anyway I became bored with my nude leopard and french tips mani but I hadn't (and still haven't going out to dinner tonight though ;) ) been anywhere to show it off so I compromised and just changed my thumb instead. I used a design that I thought up yesterday, it's inspired by a tee shirt that is inspired by a scarf....

I used Blueberry Ice Cream by Barry M as the base, it's such a sweet colour, pale but warm (??) blue, it needed two coats but I only used one as you can only see a tiny bit at the top. Other colours used were all Barry M but I've lost the names, the green might be Spring green but I'm not sure, as usual I freehanded everything and used my trusty MO/Wah pens. It's a bit messy...but you get the idea :).

I want to show you how the matte topcoat is doing after 2 days, quite well, my nails are starting to get their shine back though or at least I think they are, I think I'm just looking for an excuse to change my nails :P. 

I went to Debenhams today and finally got Forget Me Not by Dior! Yay, I've been wanting it since looking at other blogs reviewing it, and it's finally mine. I might have to attempt to review it just for the packaging! Beautiful although I got fingerprints all over mine :(. So that will be my next post :). 

I want to make this blog more friendly and interactive so please let me know if you like any of my designs and this blog in general :)