I have literally become a nail varnish junkie, constantly changing my nail varnish and its so strange because I never ever changed my nail varnish whilst I was a school now I've left...boy every week or as soon as my nail varnish has chipped I change it. Now its summer so many brands are releasing such beautiful colours and oh my goodness it does that excite me, pastels shades, luminous shades, bright shades and all theses different funky effects literally nail heaven!!!!
Today I bring to you a brand focus on Barry M's new nail varnishes and little extra Sleek nail varnish on the end which ties in with the Barry M!
Firstly can we all take a moment to appreciate the Barry M 'Aquarium Collection'! Oh so pretty! I own 3 of the nail varnishes in the collection, "Mediterranean", "Caspian" and "Pacific". There is actually one more nail varnish in the base colours called "Arabian" but I couldn't get hold of that one when I went to buy the set. I didn't buy the glitters in the collection because I'm not really a fan of glitters as they come out clear with glitter particles which I don't personally like. But back to the nail varnishes ... All the nail in the Aquarium collection are two-toned and they glisten from every single angle! They all dry relatively quickly which is unusual for Barry M's nail varnishes.
Mediterranean which is my personal favourite, its pink and orange, I find that its predominately looks pink and in certain lights in glistens orange. I'm honestly in love with this nail varnish and will probably wear it in the winter because I'm a rebel! As the bottle instructs with all Barry M nail varnishes apply a base coat first and two coats of the nail varnish to achieve maximum colour. Its a very warm toned colour and very very sparkly without glitter chunks. I don't even know how to describe my love for the colour!
Caspian is gold and lilac pink in the bottle but comes out as more of a rose gold, I'm not actually a fan on this one as I feel its almost slightly bland. It is very subtle compared to the rest of them. I think it would make a very good colour for an accent nail to draw more attention to the colour itself. But obviously if you like subtle colours then its definitely one for you.
Waikiki the colour featured in both pictures is one of the new "Sleek Loves Gel Nails" nail varnishes which I bought in hope it would be similar or a dupe for Barry M's Peach Melba which unfortunately they don't sell anymore. Sadly its much richer then Peach Melba more orange then peach but its a lovely shade anyway.
The last of my nail varnishes from the "Aquarium Collection" is Pacific. I spoke briefly about it in my June Favourites. It was the first of the Aquarium Collection that I purchased and OMG look how pretty it is... hellpppppp! Its so pretty I could cry. After testing all my new nail varnishes I painted all my nails in Pacific and it was very loud! I really wasn't ready and not something I was used to. As beautiful as it is, I would only use it for an accent nail as I felt it lost its beauty when I painted it on all my nails, it didn't look as effective.
Cancun the darkest colour is one of Barry M's new Matte Nail paints. I love this one as it dries soo quickly and you could go with only one coat if you wanted to, I did two to make the colour more intense.
Blue Moon is also a colour I bought in hope of it being a dupe for Rimmel's Nail Polish in Sweet as Sugar as I haven't been able to find it in stores but again its similar but not the same.
Last is Seaside which is a limited edition to Superdrug, this is my least favourite out of all the nail varnishes that I bought as its incredibly sheer and to get an opaque colour you need at least 3 coats. I also felt like it was slightly dated looking, I didn't feel like it complimented my skin tone and it was waste of money to be honest.
All in all its safe to say I went a bit nail varnish crazy in the past week but I need to find the perfect colour to go on holiday with (thats my excuse anyway)! I hope you enjoyed reading about the nail varnishes I bought this week.
Let me know your favourite nail varnishes and I'll see you in my next post before we set off on holiday (that was a really bad clue about my next post, just bare with me guys it gets better haha!)
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