I finally did a glitter fade mani! I've wanted to do one for ages with matte black and here it is :)
I used a black nail varnish from a nail art kit by the brand rio, and this pretty glitter nail varnish called "stunning" by Revlon, it's full of lots of little glitter and big specs, and to make the black matte I used NYC's matte me crazy.
I simply painted a stripe of glitter on my tips, wipe the brush dryish, then drag it down, once my nails were dry I added another coat to the tip to make it thicker and more of a "fade"
I really love this and I'm definitely going to do more glitter fades :)
~Have you ever done a glitter fade mani?
What's your current favourite nail art?
Just thought I would do a little post showing my current (small) Barry m nail varnish collection.
I have three special effects ones, 2 crackles and a crocodile one. I have to say the gold crackle isn't very good, I love the colour, but it just dries all around the lid and on the brush where it has already reacted and just goes a bit weird, which means its a pain to put on!
The other two are plain black, I personally love the crocodile one it's such a cool simple nail art effect! It particularly looks good over silver nail varnish.
I then also have three standard nail varnishes and 3 jelly ones.
The best thing for me about Barry m varnishes is the colours, they always have nice colours and are constantly adding new current trend colours at an affordable price.
I've written a little review of the jelly ones including a manicure with them on in a previous post if you want to check that out :)
Below shows the names of each colour:
Pure pturquoise, raspberry, Fuchsia
Grapefruit,Greenberry, Blueberry.
None of these were limited edition so I believe you can still buy them all.
~~How many Barry m nail varnishes do you own? (I know how small my collection is compared to others).
So I'm all finished for summer now (minus work) and going to have a lot of free time, last year all I did was paint my nails different patterns every week and became obsessed! I don't have as much time anymore so will hopefully paint them more again for a while.
I'm new to essie and these are my second and third buys, they are both really pretty pinks! The lighter shade is "we're in this together" and the darker shade is "cascade cool". (P.S the sun made the varnish go a bit 'bitty' on my nails so please excuse!)
We're in this together is a baby pink with a hint of shimmer in and is veryy pretty.
Cascade cool is a slightly darker pink and has no shimmer, this colour particularly was very opaque and you could just use 1 coat, I used 2 coats of each colour here.
~~What's your favourite essie colour?
Bikini so teeny
I recently bought this essie nail varnish and it's my first ever one! It's a pastel blue with a slight glittery/shimmer finish which is ever so subtle but looks very pretty! I've heard good things about essie but didn't know what to expect, so far I think it's pretty good, 2 coats and its opaque and the brush is a nice thick size making it easy to glide across your nails.
I find it so difficult to pick essie nail colours because there's so much choice! What's your favourite colour?
I am in love with this colour soo much it's so pretty! Its by barry m called "blueberry" and I immediately fell in love when I saw it, I did want to get the original formula one but they only had this colour in the gelly hi shine range. The gelly hi shines are ok I think but they are veeeery thick and I sometimes find it moves around my nails when they're drying?
After I painted them blue I layered up Rimmel "disco ball" to create an accent nail, I think it makes such a pretty combination.
