Nails: Top 5 Summer Polishes 2025

Summer Solstice was on Saturday and so I'm sharing my top summer polishes for 2025. These are the polishes from my collection I will be reaching for more often.

If you are interested you can see my summer picks for 2024 here, 2023 here, 2022 here, 2021 here, 2020 here, 2019 here, 2018 here, 2017 here, 2015 here and 2014 here.

Barry M Limoncello // AjNails Collection Peacock // Rogue Happiest Day on Earth // Emily de Molly Rock Solid // Lumen Crystal Cave

Barry M Limoncello

AjNails Collection Peacock

Rogue Happiest Day on Earth

Emily de Molly Rock Solid

Lumen Crystal Cave

 

  

Nail Polishes Worn: May 2025

Emily de Molly Rock Solid // OPI Do You Lilac It? // Colores de Carol Stripes and Scares // Nail Kind Moroccan Sunrise

Orly Shut Up Heather^ // Orly Most Definitely^ // Orly Be Kind Rewind^ // Orly Mallrat^

Orly Stay Rad^ // Barry M So Infinite // Nails Inc Baker Street // Leighton Denny Girls Best Friend

Orly Skystone^ // Orly Bell Bottom Blues^ // Orly Mallrat^

  

Nails: Top 5 Summer Polishes 2023

Summer Solstice was last Wednesday and so I should get around to sharing my top summer polishes for 2023. These are the polishes from my collection I will be reaching for more often.

If you are interested you can see my summer picks for 2022 here, 2021 here, 2020 here, 2019 here, 2018 here, 2017 here, 2015 here and 2014 here.

Orly Plastic Jungle // Orly Connect the Dots // Nails Inc Baker Street // Emily de Molly Rock Solid // Tonic Polish Jinx

Orly Plastic Jungle - A vivid green cream colour, opaque in two coats. Also very hard to photograph accurately.

Orly Connect the Dots - A warm almost neon peach cream, surprised at how much I liked this one. Bright and summery in two coats.

Nails Inc Baker Street - A classic within the nail polish realm, cream two coater mid blue. A similar blue would be Barry M Blue Guava.

Emily de Molly Rock Solid - The flakie of my picks, a blue base with blue purple iridescent flakes.

Tonic Polish Jinx - Finally is Jinx a very holographic silver polish, two coats and has a very clear rainbow flair reflection to it.

   

Topic Tuesday: Favourite Winter Transition Polishes

I'm not much of a season appropriate polish wearer, however the following three are ones I plan on wearing during this change in seasons.

Vanilla Slice // Sea Salt // Rock Solid

  

Nail Polish Battle 2021: Purple

Previously I looked at the nude and brown polishes, pink, red, orange and yellow polishes, green polishes, glitter polishes from 2021.

Today I am looking at purple polishes, I have added 22 new purple's to my collection which is the largest category in this 'battle'.

Essie - Saltwater Happy // Barry M - Lilac Orchid // Barry M - Palma Violet // Emily de Molly - Rock Solid // Prism Polish - Cortinarius // Orly - Synthetic Symphony // Painted Polish - Right As Rainbows // Quixotic Polish - Morning Glory // Girly Bits - Where My Demons Hide // Aj Nails - Purpleous // Barry M - Plum Jam

Prism Polish - Snuggly Snood // DRK - Raspberry in Blue // A England - To The Lighthouse // UberChic - Creep It Real // Picture Polish - Bold // Danglefoot - Tears in Rain // Barry M - Indigo // Danglefoot - Cyclops // Rogue Polish - Spiced Plums // Tonic - Dragonfly Parade // A England - Virginia Woolf

As there were so many purple polishes choosing my top three was very difficult;

Right As Rainbows was a surprisingly good polish, it was part of July 2021 rewind Polish Pick Up. It is a cornflower crelly base with iridescent multichrome flakes. I usually prefer darker polishes but this one is quite special and the flakes make it glowy, it has a flat and wide brush and takes two coats for full opacity.

Next is Virginia Woolf which is much more a 'me' shade, it is part of the Moments With Virginia collection. The holographic polish was a one coater and the brush is a paddle shape. Virginia Woolf is a deep garnet shade, more of a berry colour than a straight up red or pink.

And so the winner of this battle is Danglefoot Cyclops, it was so hard to choose between this and the A England. Cyclops was part of the X-Men Hero collection, and the brush is flat and wide. It is a jelly indigo base with copper flakes within it. It is shown below with two coats but I prefer to wear it layered over an indigo polish such as Barry M Indigo as I don't like jelly polishes on myself.

  

Nail Art: Floral Flakies

Base Polish | Emily de Molly - Rock Solid

Don't remember where I got the flower stickers.

  

Nail Polish Swatch: Emily de Molly - Rock Solid

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Colour | Steel Blue Base, Purple Blue Iridescent Flakies

Finish | Jelly Base with Flakies

Opacity | Three Coats Shown

Brush Type | Standard

How Much | 12ml

Vegan | Yes

Cruelty Free | Yes

Collection | March 2021

As this is iridescent it was difficult to photograph, the above photo is most accurate.

Because the polish is so packed with flakies the formula is tricky to work with and left my nails feeling chunky.

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