Showing posts with label Rock Solid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rock Solid. Show all posts

26 June 2023

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 here2021 here2020 here2019 here2018 here2017 here2015 here and 2014 here.


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.


   

1 March 2022

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.



  

13 December 2021

Nail Polish Battle 2021: Purple


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


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.


  

16 August 2021

Nail Art: Floral Flakies



Don't remember where I got the flower stickers.

  

6 August 2021

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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