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Neon Archives - Imagination In Colour

Tag Archives: Neon

Smitten Polish Not Your Mama’s Easter Grass

Hey everyone! 🙂 I have a really unique nail polish to show you today. You may have spied it in my May Favourites video – and yes I have since bought a back up! These days I have so many nail polishes, they actually have to really catch my eye for me to buy them – I rarely buy drugstore polishes for this reason. Hence the ever-pulsing indie obsession…!

I’ve been looking for this shade of green in a nail polish since I first got into it back in 2010 – I’ve always loved quirky stand-out polish colours. Hope you enjoy this one too!

Smitten Polish Not Your Mama's Easter Grass
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Maybelline Street Art Alley Attitude

Hey lovely ladies. The other week I showed you Maybelline White Splatter, one of the Maybelline Street Art (or Street Artist) nail polishes – I really love these! They are really simple glitter mixes but they are super effective for brightening up a manicure or making a plain polish look more interesting. I have been wearing this manicure all day today, and I’m loving it; it reminds me of birds’ eggs! So super cute 🙂

Lately I’ve really been getting into wearing glitters over plain colours (particularly pastels!) so here I’ve used one thick coat of Maybelline Alley Attitude over two coats of Ciaté Sugar Plum (told ya I’d use the Mini Mani Month up, didn’t I?!)

Maybelline Alley Attitude Street Art Artist 04 neon blue turquoise black bar glitter top coat topper uk swatch swatches lilac blog review
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Midori Models Own Trio

Hello lovely ladies 🙂 today features a really funky trio by Models Own and Midori – they’ve teamed up to release three melon-scented green polishes all set for the party season! Midori is a melon flavoured liqueur – I confess I haven’t tried it but the mouth-watering scent of these polishes makes me want to! I adore the flavour of melon so I’ll have to give it a go. So today’s question is what would you use as your mixer with Midori?

These may seem unusual colours for winter (particularly the neon green!) but personally, I love a splash of colour during bleary winter, and for those of you who enjoy a night out this is a perfect way to spice up an otherwise winter-coloured outfit without going all-out!

Models Own Midori Scented Nail Polish Melon Liqueur My Midori Golden Green Dancing Queen neon duochrome glitter topcoat

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Models Own Hedonist

Another polish from the Models Own Hedkandi Collection! This is probably the best-named polish I’ve come across, it very much fits the description and is rather thrilling, if you could call a polish thrilling (? Am I just a weirdo? Lol). You might need your sunglasses for this one, it is seriously, SERIOUSLY bright! If you can’t see the neon element, try tilting your laptop screen up an inch or two and you will get an idea of the neon factor! My camera seriously struggled to photo this one, lol.

Models Own Hedkandi Hedonist Neon Coral Orange Red Matte Vinyl finish bright summer hot spring 2012 disco ibiza creme

Models Own Hedkandi Hedonist Neon Coral Orange Red Matte Vinyl finish bright summer hot spring 2012 disco ibiza creme

Models Own Hedkandi Hedonist Neon Coral Orange Red Matte Vinyl finish bright summer hot spring 2012 disco ibiza creme

Models Own Hedkandi Hedonist Neon Coral Orange Red Matte Vinyl finish bright summer hot spring 2012 disco ibiza creme

Models Own Hedkandi Hedonist Neon Coral Orange Red Matte Vinyl finish bright summer hot spring 2012 disco ibiza creme

Models Own Hedkandi Hedonist Neon Coral Orange Red Matte Vinyl finish bright summer hot spring 2012 disco ibiza creme

Hedonist is a bright neon coral colour – you may have to take my word on how seriously neon it is, it’s eye-searingly bright. It also looks a little bit more orange in certain lights. The finish is somewhere between matte/vinyl, but I found my nails seemed to get more shiny on the second day of wear, interestingly enough!

Application:

Not even exaggerating, Hedonist was opaque in 1 coat. The pictures show 2 coats because I had a few application problems in terms of the formula – the polish is very thick which made the brush quite globby resulting in a rather messy application – you are likely to have to clean up after! Is it worth it? YES. You will not regret buying this polish. Hedonist is definitively a neon polish, and as with most neons, it dries matte (although, as I said before, it isn’t a true matte, it’s somewhere between matte and vinyl. The polish also became more shiny with wear). So if you hate matte you will need a top coat! The only other thing is that it will show nail imperfections -see my index finger for reference! If you have ridges on your nails and it bothers you, I’d recommend using a ridge-filler before applying this.

This polish has got me on a bit of a neon-kick, I’m keeping my eyes out for more neons and Models Own has totally won me over on this one. Hedonist will set you back £5, and is available from Boots. Also, most cosmetics are on 3 for 2 in Boots at the moment, so you could even get Hedonist as your ‘free’ 3rd item 😉 I did. I was not convinced by it in the bottle – it doesn’t look neon at all in the bottle, but don’t be fooled! I am definitely way more impressed by Hedonist than I was by Models Own Disco Heaven.

Have you tried Hedonist? If you’re a brights person, I TOTALLY would! It’s such an awesome Summer colour and is such a bizarre colour it will practically go with any outfit!

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Disclaimer: Everything mentioned in this blog post was either bought by myself with my own money, or given to me as a gift from friends/relatives. All opinions expressed here are my own.

 

Barry M Neon Yellow

So this is rather a bright yellow! I’m talking fluorescent highlighter yellow:

Barry M Neon Yellow Nail Paint Shimmer Bright Highlighter UK polish fluorescent Summer gloss

Barry M Neon Yellow Nail Paint Shimmer Bright Highlighter UK polish fluorescent Summer gloss

Barry M Neon Yellow Nail Paint Shimmer Bright Highlighter UK polish fluorescent Summer gloss

Barry M Neon Yellow Nail Paint Shimmer Bright Highlighter UK polish fluorescent Summer gloss

So with most yellows, application can be a problem. Not here! This was opaque in 3 coats. Also, most neon polishes dry matte, however Neon Yellow dried to a relatively glossy finish. I think that can probably be attributed to the silvery shimmer running through it. My ring finger has no topcoat on. There’s definitely a rubbery element to the finish but it’s very definitely glossy. There’s also a greenish tinge to the yellow, which makes it look much better on my pink fingers than a pure yellow does. It’s much like a yellow highlighter, that’s the only way I can think to describe the colour!

Application:

The polish dried quickly and was opaque in 3 coats. It’s worth being aware that the polish is touch-dry a few minutes after application, but remains dentable for a good hour or so! I had to completely redo two nails as I was having a bit of an absent-brain-day. I used two coats of basecoat underneath as I was worried this polish would stain. Suffice to say, I did have to work that little bit harder to get the yellow out but the extra coat did the trick. My nails remain un-stained. I would definitely recommend you use an extra coat of basecoat to save your nails from staining!

It’s definitely a wildly eye-catching polish and not for the faint-hearted. There is just no way you can hide it when it’s on! It’s almost luminescent. This is yet another Barry M I’ve never seen in shops, and another one my mum kindly bought me for Christmas from Barry M online!

Have you tried this one? Would you wear such a bright polish or are you all about the darks? I guess it’s a really good polish for summer. I think it would probably look best on darker skin than mine, but I’m never going to get a tan as it’s England!

How is your week going? I have some  very exciting news: my Andy has launched his business online this week and it has so far been very successful! He’s monitoring the traffic at the moment so I won’t link it but I am very proud of him! He has worked so hard. I’m back at uni now and getting back into the swing of things.

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Disclaimer: Everything mentioned in this blog post was either bought by myself with my own money, or given to me as a gift from friends/relatives. All opinions expressed here are my own.