Nails: Golden Crowns

Polishes Used:

No.7 - Beautifully Black

Ciate - Ladylike Luxe

Nail Stickers from Born Pretty Store

Swatch: No.7 - Damson Dream

Colour: Deep Berry
Finish: Shimmer
Opacity: Two Coats
Brush Type: Thin and Wide
How Much? 10ml

GOT: Flowers

For today's challenge I used No.7's Beautifully Black from October 2011, Sally Hansen's First Kiss from April 2012, Maybelline Colorshow Cool Blue from July 2013 and Color Club's Almost Famous from April 2012. Along with W7 Black.

Polishes Used:
No.7 - Beautifully Black
Sally Hansen - First Kiss
Maybelline Colorshow - Cool Blue
Color Club - Almost Famous
W7 Black

33 Day Nail Challenge: Using 3 Favourite Polishes

I would completely fail at choosing three so I thought the base polish doesn't technically count. Right?!

Base Polish: Ciaté - Wait Until Dark
Other Polishes: No.7 - Violetta 70, Ciaté - Fade To Greige 71, China Glaze - Grape Pop
Top Coat: George (Asda) - Matt Finish

Dotting Tools

Nails: Movember

Movember (from slang word "mo" for moustache and "November") is an annual, month-long event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of prostate cancer and other male cancer initiatives. The Movember Foundation runs the Movember charity event, housed at Movember.com - Wiki

Last year I did some nail art for Movember (and another design) and thought I would again this year, to help raise awareness for the cause.

No.7 - Damson Dream
Collection 2000 - Electric Dreams 56
Stamping Plate: QA28
Stamping Polish: W7 - Black

Nails: Freehand Floral

Just trying to do some freehand floral designs which weren't roses.

No.7 - Beautifully Black

Nail Polish: Battle of the Reds

Another day, another battle! This time it is red polishes.

 Eyeko - Saucy, ELF - Light Red, Miss Sporty - 160, ELF - Medium Red, ELF - Cranberry, Barry M - Raspberry, Kleancolor - Metallic Red, ELF - Red Velvet, Sleek - Royalty  ELF - Dark Red, OPI - Sanguine, No.7 - Damson Dreams,  Eyeko - Vampira, OPI - William Tell Me About OPI

First off the top four are such a wide range of shades, which will make the next battle really difficult! ELF - Light Red is a prime colour, so simple. Barry M - Raspberry is a really lovely colour difficult to know where to place it red or a pink?

Barry M Raspberry and Eyeko Vampira made it through the round. Vampira is a very blackened red with red glitter throughout the polish.

I could have easily brought both in to the final but alas Eyeko Vampira made it on its own, purely because its a blackened polish and I have a leaning towards darker shades.

Nail Polish: Battle of the Blues

Battle of the blues, so many blues to choose from!

Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream, Collection 2000 - Electric Dreams, Essence - Let's Get Lost, MUA - Smurf Blue, Barry M - Chameleon Blue, Stargazer - Blue Chrome, Miss Sporty - Pop Fiction, Models Own - True Blue, Barry M - Retro Blue, Barry M - Blue Plum Gelly, Max Factor - Odyssey  Kleancolor - Metallic Blue, Sleek - Oxford, Sinful Colors - Hot Spot, OPI - Road House Blues, Eyeko - Cosmic, No.7 - Betty Blues, ELF - Navy, MUA - Navy

Cutting down all of those polishes to just four wasn't too difficult, Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream is such a nice cream base polish perfect for nail art. Miss Sporty - Pop Fiction is quite a unique periwinkle blue, shame it smells really weird.

Making the final two are Barry M and OPI. The Blue Plum is just so rich of a colour and covers in just one coat.

And the winner is... Road House Blues! It's just more of a colder navy compared to the Barry M. Something very wearable, plenty of polish in there (15ml) and the brush makes application so easy.

Nail Polish: Battle of the Black

Not sure this introduction is really needed but I am doing a series of posts to find out which polishes are the best in my 'collection' as of 2012. This as the title suggests is BATTLE OF THE BLACK, I am actually suprised at how few black polishes I have.

Models Own - Black / Red, OPI - Obscurity  No 7 - Beautifully Black, Barry M - Black Multi Glitter, W7 - Black, ELF - Black

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I really struggled to choose my favourite polish from the bunch. The Barry M is really nice, good formula and has a stunning holo packed in there. Then we have W7 Black which is a really good coverage polish, as a bonus it is amazing for stamping as well as straight polishing. Which is why I am putting both through in to the next round.

Swatch: No.7 - Violetta

This is as close to colour accurate I could get, it is a deep violet shade rather than leaning towards blue. As with most of the No.7 polishes this is a very pigmented polish and as such is good for stamping with. The brush is nice and flat and wide, the bottles have changed recently and as such the brushes may have changed.

Nails: Half Moons

No.7 - Violetta

Rimmel - Hard Edged

Swatch: No.7 - Beautifully Black Polish

Something else I noticed was the odd shapes neck of the bottle. Only negative I can think of is when the polish is running low it may be difficult to reach the liquid

Opacity: One thick coat would do

Brush Type: Flat, Wide, Rounded Cuticle