Nail Polish

Day 9 of the 30 Days of Untrieds Challenge: rainbow nails. Something I’ve always wanted to try! I racked my brains for this one, trying to work out what the best way of doing it would be but my mind was drawing blank, so I just went ahead with a simple gradient.

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Here I have ‘Blueberry Gelly Nail Paint 5’, one of the brand new Barry M Gelly Nail Paints due to be released on 26th September in Superdrug. The cost is £3.99 each.

I wanted to quickly point something out – the ‘Gelly’ title refers to the fact that the polishes have a ‘gel-effect‘ (think gel nails – Shellac, Axxium etc) in that they have a high gloss and they are very opaque – as opposed to being ‘jellies’ (glossy but sheer nail polish).

Also, for reference, the penultimate photo in this post shows accurately how glossy this polish is!

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Day 8 of the 30 Days of Untrieds Challenge: metallic. To be honest I’m not really sure what qualifies as metallic as I’ve always referred to ‘metallic’ (in terms of car paint… lol) polishes as ‘shimmers’. So I decided that this one might just do for a metallic mani, but I don’t really know! These photos, like those of Topshop Eclipse, were taken on holiday a few weeks ago, hence the length discrepancy. Hypnotic is exactly that – my nails were pretty mesmerising!

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Day 7 of the 30 Days of Untrieds Challenge! Day 7 is black & white. Now I know this isn’t exactly original but I’ve always wanted to try  Dalmatian print and it’s actually surprisingly easy!

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Today I have an ‘ultra-modern’ inspired creation as part of the ‘Three Nail Challenge‘,  devised by the lovely ladies at Mateji Ustvarjata. To be honest I don’t really know what qualifies as ultra-modern but colour blocking and abstract art came to mind for some reason, so that’s what happened!

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