Back with a bang: Barry M Speedy's Pit Stop

My return was promised fairy recently and now it's been fulfilled as here's a full blown blog post about Barry M's newest collection called Speedy. I was walking around the isles of Superdrug looking for inspiration for my return post, then I saw these newbies on the shelf and decided that's what it'll be about! First I had to choose out of all the lovely colours, which meant not buying them all, so I chose colours I'd normally wear. Pit Stop is a colour that I now where everyday so follow me for all the lowdown on it...

An Autumn Release: Barry M's Chai.

 

It's such a nice neutral colour! Even though it does look a little plain from the offset, it definitely is very elegant on the nails making it very acceptable to wear to a place of work. Sadly this isn't the case for me as it's plain nails only - a girl can dream though? Shall we move onto some more sophisticated photographs of the brilliant polish named Chai.

Barry M's Autumn Collection. (Just a few.)

Aren't these just lovely colours for autumn, not too in your face. Nice and simple, they are from the lovely Barry M as part of the Autumn collection. You may have noticed that the whole Autumn collection isn't all here, there's one missing seeing as it'll probably never be worn again so there's no need to purchase it. (That's a new mantra.) Anyway there are five others from the collection so there isn't load missing, let's get onto more photographs of these polishes.

Lovely Muted Pastel: Elderberry by Barry M.

Despite the fact that the new ever so lovely autumn polishes have just been released by Barry M, today's post is a feature of one of the spring/summer release polishes. Elderberry has been purchased recently as there's been a hankering for pastel, supposedly because they are much calmer colours. It was a love at application polish, it appears so subtle and pretty. Here's some more photographs to prove it:  

Another Colour Adventure: Grey Matter by Rimmel 60 Seconds



Recently the colours of polishes featured in these little posts have been getting ever more adventurous compared to my usual colour palette. Today is no exception. It's not an in colour at the moment compared to neon pastels, however it was picked up at a car-boot sale for the grand price of 20p. A risk even I can take on a bottle of polish...

But I will admit that if this had been in a shop, it probably wouldn't of been purchased as it's not a colour of choice. Hopefully this little swatching session will make me see the light! The polish is called Grey Matter from the 60 Seconds collection by Rimmel. It's a light grey in colour as the name suggests and it could even fit in with the pastel type trend. Here's the first coat:

GOT Challenge: Dots

Here I am again with a new week's GOT challenge under the title of dots which was pretty hard to put together seeing as it's the use of old nail polishes and the idea was to create a rainbow of dots. However my collection doesn't hold many old bold colours, therefore I'll show you the oldies first and then the addition back up colours. Is that okay? Hopefully not breaking the rules as I've never been a 'rulebreaker' to be truthful.

Square photographs didn't really seem right and this is the best editing I can do to get close to circles so they are in their own little bubbles. Base colour was Cloudy Grey by Maybelline, the golden oldie polishes are Hibiscus by Natural Collection which is really old and a cheaper polish seeing as that's what pocket money would stretch to and an unknown named polish by Miss Sporty which doesn't have a tag as it was purchased at a car boot sale (Really really old!). Finally the additional colours are Bright Purple by Barry M, Orange Attack by Maybelline Colour Show and 296 Water Street Blue by NYC. Right let's get started with the base coat.

I am starting to like the bubbles of photographs, I promise I wont get too attached to them.  Oh! Before I forget the reason the base colour isn't white is due to the fact that my collection currently doesn't hold a white nail polish.There is a lot going on in this post today, edited photographs and a little movie. Don't get your hopes up too much though. Next stage then is adding the different dots therefore here's the film premiere...

Another favourite of mine...

...This isn't a new purchase but it's one which comes off of the shelf regularly as it's well used on my nails. Now this colour was a jump into unknown territory seeing as mostly I choose bright and in your face colours whereas this one is a mute and calm colour. The reasoning for the choosing is that at the time black, white and greys were very much in fashion which meant I was paying attention to fashion for once!

Now the name isn't as bright and cheerful as the rest of the nail polish collection seeing as it's called Cloudy Grey which doesn't really inspire me as much. But the colour is lovely for non-colour, as it's plain and simple which is good for a change from the rainbow. It also matches all the this season clothes I own. So here's the first layer:

So far so good? It appears so! Applying this nail polish was good and bad in places, there was some streaking in places but it disappears once the second layer is applied. Pro points were that the solution was lovely consistency and really opaque meaning you can't see underneath. 2nd layer is here...

There you go! They came out really well and really quite neat for my nails which is a plus. Now I am not really sure that this nail polish is still available seeing as it's yet another purchase from a £1 shop but this the Colour Show collection by Maybelline has a colour similar to this called Cool Touch. Or there's always the usual Amazon or Ebay if you love this one that much. I probably will when this one runs out...