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28 May 2013

Accessorize Electric Purple

This is Accessorize in Electric Purple. It dries a silky matte rather than a shiny finish, which i actually love!

The colour is a beautiful, forget me not purple.

It was really hard to photograph the actual shade of this polish.

I would say that to my eye, in real life, it is a far more purplish hue.

Although one of my neighbors said they saw it as a more blue shade.

Well whatever the shade, it is one of my fave polishes at the mo. Really summery and looks great with embellishments.

The one thing i will say that is has the same tendency as a metallic polish, it brings out your nail imperfections. So make sure you use a good ridge filling base coat.

This is 2x coats with no top coat

This polish along with other Accessorize polishes are available from +Superdrug

20 May 2013

Blue Rhapsody

This is Essie's Blue Rhapsody. A beautiful iced blue metallic shade. Its not overly blue.

It applies okay, although there are some visible brush strokes caused mainly by the quick drying time. The drying time on this is really fast.
I also find that streaks are normal in metallic polishes but usually they are not that noticeable, not enough to cause a problem.

**The bump on the middle fingernail is not a bump, its my cameras reflection!**

This is two coats with no topcoat. I added a flower sticker just to jazz it up a tad, but its a showy polish on its own so I didn't want to over do it.

Essie are one of my favorite nail polish brand as they have a wide range of colours and a perfect brush, in my opinion. the brush is wider than usual so you can apply in less strokes causing less streaks. Although there is visable brush stroke on this polish.

Blue Rhapsody dries slightly matte.

The one thing about metallic polishes like this, regardless of brand, is that they really do show up any imperfections you may have in your nail so its best to use a ridge filling base coat.

Beautiful!

10 May 2013

Matt Suede Revlon VS InVogue

Okay so today I thought id have a play with two Matt Suede Effect polishes.

We have Revlon's Ruby Ribbon (the darker colour on the index and middle finger)

InVogue's Hot Gossip (Ring finger and pinky)

These are Matt suede polishes so as you can expect they are Matt. I don't know how to suede factors in as this effect doesn't look anything like suede?

The Revlon polish is a lot darker and has less of a noticeable shimmer/glitter.

InVogue has a bigger glitter content, the glitter itself is bigger also.

I then used Poshe topcoat on the index and ring finger to see what it would look like as a normal,shiny polish. I have to admit I prefer both of them with a shine!

The shine really shows off the different shimmers and glitters.

As per usual the Revlon polish was a pain to apply as the brush is so thin.

InVouge is easier to apply but I still hate the lid as its so small so hard to grip.

3x coats

No topcoat

TOPCOAT ON INDEX AND RING FINGER ONLY.

You can purchase Invogue Matt Suede with free uk postage HERE

So what do you think? do you prefer shiny or matt?

27 Apr 2013

InVogue Matt Concrete Effect Nails

Received this in the post today,nail mail!!

I Purchased a few InVogue Polishes from +Fragrance Direct as id never seen them before but they are only £2.50. How can you resist that?!

When OPI brought out liquid sand i really didn't like the idea of having a textured nail but i must say i actually liked Spellbound by InVogue, the colour is really bright and looks fantastic. I couldnt stop looking at them and toching them.Even my son kept touching them "ooo bumpy!"

The overall effect is matt. Iveadded a topcoat to the ring finger so you could see the difference between the matt and shiny effects.

It was as annoying as glitter polish to remove but it was surprisingly easier when removing the one with a top coat on.

All in all i would wear this again as the colour is so beautiful and bright.