Nail Art - Snowman

Base Polish | Rogue Lacquer - Spiced Plums

Stamping Polish | MoYou - Special Nail Polish - White

Stamping Plate | Nicole Diary L13

Snowman White | Barry M - Cream Soda

Snowman Black | Rimmel - Rita's Black

Snowman Orange | Sally Hansen - Carnivale

  

Nail Polish Battle 2020: Purple

I appear to have a thing for purple polishes having 19 new ones in 2020!

Barry M - Lavender // Barry M - Grape Soda // Rimmel - Lovey Dovey // Barry M - Native Purple // Sinful Colors - Kommotion // Danglefoot - Bones // OPI - Hello Pretty // ILNP - Love Language // A England - New Romantic // Danglefoot - Buttons for Eyes

Danglefoot - Across the Universe // OPI - Suzi and the Artic Fox // Tonic - Peacock Parade // Tonic - Pegasus Parade // Tonic - Pixie Parade // OPI - Turn on the Northern Lights // Tonic - The Answer is 42 // A England - Lenore // ILNP - Eclipse

This particular battle was difficult to whittle it down to my top three as there are so many beautiful polishes.

Pegasus Parade which is a purple blue duochrome polish, quite shifty and difficult to photograph! There is also some maroon in there too depending on the light and angle.

The Answer is 42 is a duochrome purple blue polish which I struggle to photo, it also has flakies and scattered holographic pieces.

Which means that Eclipse is the winner, this is such a shifty multichrome it was hard to know what colour category to go in. Looks black straight on, changing to red, orange, yellow, beautiful.

  

Nails: Tartan Tree

Base Polish | Tonic Polish - Peacock Parade

White Stamping Polish | MoYou - Special Nail Polish - White

Green Stamping Polish | MoYou - Special Nail Polish - Atlantic Green

Red Polish | MoYou - Special Nail Polish - Chilean Fire

Gold Polish | MoYou - Special Nail Polish - Emperors Gold

Tartan Stamping Plate | Beauty Big Bang 5

Tree Stamping Plate | Born Pretty Store L032

  

Topic Tuesday: Quintessential Festive Polish

Red polishes are quintessential festive polishes for me. For cream polishes I like OPI Adam Said... and for a metallic I like Leighton Denny Be My Berry.

 

  

Nails: Top 5 Winter Polishes 2020

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 2019 (here), 2018 (here), 2017 (here) and 2016 (here).

W7 - Red Dazzle // Barry M - Nightshade // OPI - Born to Sparkle // Barry M - French Rose // OPI - Let Your Love Shine

Red Dazzle was the first polish I picked, would it be the festive season without a red? I thought a glitter would be really good, and I have had this for over five years so time to use it again!

Nightshade is an almost black cream polish, while red and sparkle is nice for this time of year a dark polish is nice for new years, particularly with a glitter gradient.

For a glitter gradient I like using Born to Sparkle, it is a rose gold hex glitter with small standard glitter in a clear base.

And because it is nice to have something that isn't as in your face this season, French Rose, I think this would be a nice nude pink polish on someone with a darker skin tone than me but on me this is a dark enough polish that doesn't come off as nude. You could also use Born to Sparkle on top of this.

Finally Let Your Love Shine is a beautiful glass flecked deeper red polish, this one is more traditionally festive than the Red Dazzle above. I haven't worn this polish nearly enough!

  

Nails: Snow Themed

Base Polish | UberChic - Say Boo and Scary On

Stamping Polish | MoYou - Special Nail Polish - White

Stamping Plate | Nicole Diary L13