Marks & Spencer Bright Aqua (M2)

This has more green in than you can see here. Absolutely stunning! It’s a turquoise-green shimmer, but it has a very pearly appearance on the nail. It’s kind of iridescent. I haven’t seen anything like this one before, even Andy told me I “MUST get that one!!!”.

This polish dried fast, with a gorgeous finish, and best of all, all Marks and Spencer beauty items are BUAV Approved, which is like the Holy Approval of Cruelty Free, and being that I am very uncomfortable with the current laws on cosmetic animal testing I am all for it and will be going back to M&S; for more.

I have had two problems with this polish. This particular one was so sheer:

This is one coat over a clear base coat (excuse my stained nails!)

I decided to start again. This time I applied base coat, and a nude polish as a base (I’ll post details of this in my next post) to cover over my nail lines and staining. This worked much better and the colour you see in the second and third photos are with 3 coats. It really didn’t need a third coat, two worked fine, but I went to bed soon after applying the second and woke up with the most offensive sheet marks ever, so I added an extra coat to try and salvage the polish before school.

My only other issue was that while the first coat dried super duper quickly, the second coat took ages to fully dry (as in to a state where it doesn’t dent easily) hence the sheet marks. However the third coat applied 8 hours later dried really fast again, which had me a little confused. Oh well!

All in all the hassle is totally worth it for the price (£3) and for the BUAV seal of approval! And to be fair the hassle wouldn’t have been hassle if I had just waited for the second coat to dry like a normal person would.

Hope you are all well, keep a look out for the 3 upcoming M&S; polishes! The next one I’m wearing is called Lagoon 😉 guess what colour it might be?

Emma xxx