Polishes Worn: July 2023

July here has been very rainy, my polishes worn during the month seem to be quite muted.

Orly Persistent Memory // Painted Polish Right As Rainbows // A England Whitby Abbey // Barry M Chai Latte

Born Pretty Store Frantic Fire // DRK Nails Warm Breeze Cozy Beach // Orly Smoke Jelly // Fancy Gloss White Out

Nails Inc Pudding Lane // Born Pretty Store Sunset Pink // Orly Stop the Clock // Fancy Gloss Evil Witch

   

Same Prompt One Decade Later Nails: Using 3 Polishes

Today I am sharing my of the prompt 'using three polishes' a decade on from the original which you can see here.

White Base Polish | Nails Inc - Pudding Lane

Pink Shimmer Base Polish | Born Pretty Store - Sunset Pink

Light Purple Polish | Essie - Saltwater Happy

Mid Purple Polish | Rimmel - Lovey Dovey

Dark Purple Polish | OPI - Do You Have This Color in Stock-holm?

Matte Topcoat | Barry M - Matte Topcoat

Tools | Dotting Tools

2013 Version;

   

Nail Art: Pride 2023

Below are my Pride Month nails for 2023, I did some in 2022 here, 2021 here and 2019 here.

White Base | Nails Inc - Pudding Lane

Red Polish | Ciate - Mistress

Orange Polish | Barry M - Satsuma

Yellow Polish | Barry M - Pineapple Punch

Green Polish | Color Club - Twiggie

Blue Polish | Kiko - Cerulean Blue 295

Lilac Polish | Rimmel - Lovey Dovey

Indigo Polish | Barry M - Indigo

Dotting Tool

   

Nail Art: St. Patrick's Day 2023

In previous years I've done St. Patrick's Day nails which you can see from 2021 here, 2020 here, 2018 here and here, 2016 here, 2015 here, 2014 here, 2013 here, 2012 here, and finally 2011 here.

Base Polish | China Glaze - Head to Moji-toes

White Accent Polish | Nails Inc - Pudding Lane

Gold Accent Polish | Models Own - Gold Rush

Light Green Accent Polish | Color Club Twiggie

Dark Green Accent Polish | Barry M - Rock Pool

Green Holo Accent Polish | A England - Proserpine

Dotting Tool

   

Nail Art: Valentines Bats

Light Pink Polish | Barry M - Peony

Shimmer Polish | Leighton Denny - Heat Wave

Dark Pink Polish | OPI - 7th and Flower

Bat Polish | Barry M - Blushed

White Polish | Nails Inc - Pudding Lane

Stamping Polish | MoYou - Special Stamping Polish Black

Stamping Plate | Hit the Bottle Embrace the Darkside 03

   

Nails: Top 5 Winter Polishes 2022

As today is Yule, the Winter Solstice signalling the start of the official winter season in the Northern Hemisphere I thought now would be a good time to share my top five winter polishes. I have done similar blog posts in previous years 2021 (here), 2020 (here), 2019 (here), 2018 (here), 2017 (here) and 2016 (here).

Nails Inc Pudding Lane // A England St. George // Orly You're on Sapphire // Barry M Berry Cosmo // Orly Naughty

Pudding Lane - I seem to wear more white during winter than summer, either way its a good base for snow based nail art. This is an off white cream finish polish.

St. George - A good dark green holo polish.

You're on Sapphire - A dark blue shimmer, quite an icy shade.

Berry Cosmo a dark purple but clearly is a purple not a black, cream finish polish.

 Naughty - And finally a deep oxblood cream polish, winter is a time I reach for dark polishes more often.

   

Nail Polish Battle 2022: White, Silver and Black

Today's battle is white, silver and black polishes, I don't have too many within this colour category.

Barry M White Moonstone // Nails Inc Pudding Lane // Barry M Sea Salt // Barry M Tiara // Barry M Icing Sugar // Barry M Agave // Orly Liquid Vinyl

Choosing my top three wasn't too difficult;

Third place is Agave a dark silver almost foil effect, it is the darkest Barry M silver.

Pudding Lane is second which is surprising as I prefer darker polishes generally. However I have reached for this polish a lot throughout 2022, I use it as a base or as in some sort of nail art.

So that leaves Liquid Vinyl as the winner, I recently wrote about this quickly becoming my most used nail polish in a Topic Tuesday post.