31 December 2022

30 December 2022

Nail Polish Battle 2022: Winner

Today is the final post looking at all the polishes joining my collection in the past 12 months. The following are the top three;


So the first to be cut is Fairy Peas. It is a purple jelly base with pink flakes and circular green glitters. The reason why it finished in third place is because I don't like wearing glitters often as it can be a pain to remove, but it is a beautiful polish.


Choosing between the top two was difficult, in the end Bloody and Bruised came second place. It is a cream thermal changing from plum, blue to lilac. This is my first tri-thermal and you can clearly see all three colour shifts. The only thing that made this second and not first was how it is a cream thermal finish.


Which means Sapphire Shards is the top polish coming in to my collection this year. It is a thermal going from light blue to dark blue with small blue flakies within. This won as it is a thermal but has metallic flakies in which elevates it from the cream finish Bloody and Bruised.


   

29 December 2022

52 Week Nail Challenge: New Year

This week is the last prompt of the 52 Week Challenge where I recreated nail art from 2012. Today is 'New Years'. Here is a link to my 2012 version, as well as the image below my 2022 version;


Base Polish | Barry M - Wander



   

28 December 2022

27 December 2022

Topic Tuesday: Which Polishes for Winter?


I think the polish I was looking forward to the most to wear this winter was Fancy Gloss Cold Weather Blues. Originally in 2020 I missed out on it, it wasn't re-released in 2021 and so waiting two years to wear a polish seems quite a long time.


   

26 December 2022

Nail Polish Battle 2022: Top Three

Today I am looking at all eight polishes which won each previous rounds to work out what the top three polishes are which have come in to my collection within the past year.


Fairy Peas, I found the round green glitters quite different from other glitter polishes. Fairy Peas is a purple jelly base with pink flakes and circular green glitters.


Chase is a cream berry shade, it is very basic compared to others in this battle.


Sapphire Shards is a thermal going from light blue to dark blue with small blue flakies within.


Champagne Supernova, is quite autumnal. Brown, orange, red, green multichrome with scattered holo.


Love and Tragedy is a busy polish with lots going on, magnetic, green to purple multichrome with flakies.

 

Bloody and Bruised is a cream thermal changing from plum, blue to lilac.


Stolen Flame is a blue / purple packed with flakies and micro holo glitters.


Finally Liquid Vinyl, which is a basic black cream polish. It is very opaque, has a paddle shaped brush and has quickly become my go to black polish.


After looking at eight polishes I have whittled them down to Fairy PeasSapphire Shards and Bloody and Bruised;