Nails: Poinsettia

Base Polish | Born Pretty Store - Ares Power

Stamping Polish | Beauty Big Bang 002

Stamping Plate | Nicole Diary L13

  

Nail Polish Battle 2020: Glitter and Flakies

NeVerMind - Slendy // Painted Polish - Blue Jean Baby // Dystopia - Couldn't Miss This One This Year // OPI - Let's Celebrate // OPI - Born to Sparkle // Fancy Gloss - Magma // Femme Fatale - Weird Sisters

I found coming up with my top three difficult, which is surprising given I don't like glitter. Slendy is particularly unique to my collection and I was surprised by how much I liked it. The following made it in to the top three.

Weird Sister is quite a unique polish, a thermal that goes from black to clear with added glitters. I haven't owned a thermal that goes clear prior to this.

  

In second place, Couldn't Miss This One This Year which again is a very unique polish to me. Everyone has heard of thermal changing polishes whereas this one actually changes colour in direct sunlight. Blue to purple colour change packed with flakies.

 

Which means the winner is Magma, which is a flakie topper. The colour shifts in this duochrome is stunning, all of the autumnal colours in a polish. Also it looks great with a matte topcoat.

 

  

Swatch: ILNP - Love Language

Love Language is part of the Fall into Winter collection, described as a deep cabernet red. I think it is a maroon, either way it has a very strong holographic flare to it.

I didn't get to photograph this in direct sunlight as it is winter now in Northern England.

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Colour | Maroon

Finish | Holographic

Opacity | Two Coats

Brush Type | Flat and Wide

How Much | 12ml

Collection | Fall into Winter

Cruelty Free

Vegan

7 Free

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Nail Polish Battle 2020: Green and Yellow

Today is a battle of green, yellow, nude, gold and silver. The hodgepodge of polish colours!

Barry M - Wild Mint // Barry M - Pistachio // Barry M - Rainforest Green // Barry M - Iced Latte // Barry M - Lemon Sorbet // Orly - Glowstick // OPI - Many Celebrations to Go // Tonic Polish - Jinx

Choosing my top three wasn't too difficult in this category. First of all is Iced Latte, something I have been reaching for a lot for nail art.

Glowstick is very much a highlighter yellow, very bright and something I specifically had to go look for this year when I realised I didn't own a shade like this.

Which means that Jinx is the winner, another one I had to specifically look for as I almost used up my original GOSH Holographic. While this isn't a dupe it is pretty stunning all the same.

  

Swatch: Born Pretty Store - Titans Anger - Flourish Holographic Series [#42514]*

I have swatched and reviews a couple of other shades in the holographic series, Beautiful Eyes, Zeus Sword and Ares Power. I also have swatches of Fantasy coming soon. A comparison of Ares Power and Titan Anger is also below as both are red.

Titans Anger comes packaged in a plastic wrap, and in a cardboard box.

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Colour | Red

Finish | Holographic

Opacity | Two Coats Shown

Brush Type | Flattened

How Much | 6ml

Collection | Flourish Holographic Series

Titans Anger is a red, strong holographic finish polish.

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I have a 10% off discount code (HS7J61) if you would like to use it;

Born Pretty Store
$5.49

  

Topic Tuesday: Favourite and Least Favourite Polish Bottle

My favourite polish bottles are standard Barry M bottles or A England bottles because they are all neat and easy to store.

My least favourite are the Jacava polish bottles because the handles are far too tall and make storing them difficult. Around three centimetres taller than the rest of my polishes.