Review

Hello lovelies, sorry (again) for the long gap between now and the last time I blogged, I have an extra pretty A/W polish for you to see today. Lately I have been really loving burgundy – I have burgundy EVERYTHING at the moment – gloves, clothes, eyeshadow, lipstick… I’m obsessed! So when this beautiful colour popped through my letterbox I was ultra excited. I have repainted my nails in this colour 3 times this week, which is saying A LOT for me, someone so twitchy I can barely keep a colour on for 2 days.

OPI In The Cable Car-Pool Lane is from the A/W San Francisco collection. Don’t even get me started on this collection… it’s love!

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Hey everyone 🙂 I have some really funky wraps to show you today! I have to pre-warn you; I have never quite got the hang of wraps but I am really starting to enjoy wearing them. Especially at the end of a 14hr working day, the last thing I want to do is paint my nails (hello… sleep!!!) so it’s a lot easier just to pop on some nail wraps and your nails will still look fab the next day – no dry time, no sheet marks… yay!

Elegant Touch are really developing their wrap designs, the styles lately seem to follow fashion trends too so if you’re fashion savvy, these are for you! I always love leopard print nails – I never wear leopard print on my clothes… it just seems a bit much for my eyes, but I like the delicacy of them on nails. The nice thing about these wraps is there’s a bit more detail involved than you can achieve easily with handpainted nail art so you can get quick easy nail art with no hassle!

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Here is the second of five new Textured Effects from Barry M. The Royal Glitters Collection consists of: Princess, Countess, Majesty, Lady, and Duchess. This new collection is very similar in effect to OPI’s Liquid Sands and Zoya’s Pixie Dusts, which personally I much prefer to the first four Textured Effects Barry M released.

Today I am showing you Countess; a deep aubergine purple base filled with golden and rosy pink shimmers/glitters (I am never quite sure with the Textured Effects whether it’s shimmer or glitter!). Anyway, it’s super pretty, really vampy but with an attractive sparkle – it’s perfect for winter parties or a warm autumn outfit.

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Barry M have released some AWESOME new Textured Nail Effects – this new collection is very similar in effect to OPI’s Liquid Sands and Zoya’s Pixie Dusts. It’s called The Royal Glitter Collection, and consists of 5 colours: Duchess, Princess, Majesty, Lady, and Countess. Today I have Princess to show you… my very favourite of the five, it’s a beautiful golden peach colour but in glitter form! I feel like if Models Own Tropical Sun was made into a textured polish, Princess would be it :).

I have to confess, I initially wasn’t too keen on the ‘textured effect’ polishes… I found the first 4 Barry M Textured Effects to be a bit love or hate, but lots of ogling of OPI’s and Zoya’s takes on texture has won me over. I love this frosted glitter appearance – it makes me think of sugar coated cocktail glasses.

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Hey all 🙂 I’ve got a super super pretty flakie to show you! I’ve always loved flakies but lately I’ve started to feel like all the supposedly ‘new’ flakies are just reproductions of previous ones (for example, Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure, GOSH Rainbow, Color Club Snow Flakes, Nubar 2010, Essie Shine of the Times… etc.). Even the Zoya flakies weren’t altogether original, and the Nails Inc ones certainly weren’t. So I’m happy to report that Crystal Glaze is probably the most original one I’ve yet seen 🙂 with the possible exception of the (pricey and hard-to-get) Nfu-Ohs :).

As always, flakies are best used as a topper, especially over darker colours as the colours of the flakes will really pop against the dark background. I used 2 coats of the new Barry M Berry Cosmo as my ‘underwear’ :).

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