A Christmas Catch-up! Revlon's Emerald City.

Merry Christmas and hope you all have a Happy New Year! Are you all stuffed from Christmas eatings? Well rest comes in a form of a lovely little update of what the nails looked like in the festive season. It was an oldie, it's Revlon's Emerald City which is a lovely shimmery metallic green that sparkles in the Christmas lighting. Follow me for more... 

Return of the Aquarium Collection: Barry M's Persian.

Sadly, it has to be admitted that this little beauty has been in the stash a while yet not appeared on the blog. It's been on Instagram here. Maybe it's just been forgotten under it's sheer brilliance, well here it is now and hopefully it will impress you all. It's Barry M's newest Aquarium Collection release called Persian, the colour is a mix of a deep purple and a bronze/gold when it catches the corner of the eye. This happens a lot, have a sneak through for some more photographs.

Back by Popular Demand: Sally Hansen's Jet Set Jade.

Sally Hansen's Insta-Dry collection is always in fashion here, seeing as they are always pretty colours and very easy to apply! Therefore when they reappeared within the local Poundshop, a few polishes just had to be 'selected for review on the blog'. Just kidding, only for my own personal polish collection. Today's polish is a lovely green and mix colour mix that's a metallic shimmer overall. It's called Jet Set Jade. 

Mysterious Green Shimmer Polish: Rain Forest by Revlon.

Just look at the green shimmer running through this eye catching polish! It certainly caught my eye when walking round the shop, it was a see it and need to buy it experience for sure. Surprisingly this colour polish isn't a normal go-to, the colour green in my nail polish collection is definitely smaller than others. But the iridescent effect the shimmer has just had to be tried out, and here's the results: 

Appearance of a Wet n Wild: First Class Only.

This is a first for this little blog channel to have a Wet n Wild, sadly it's not the current ones that I drool over through Bloglovin'. Instead it's a bargain Spoiled Wet n Wild which was picked up the ever famous Poundshops at the reduced price of 50p. (Sorry bargains are ingrained into myself...) Yet that doesn't mean it's inferior, the results came out really well as you can see here:

A Blast From The Past: MNY 445 and 447

Good morning readers! Hope you are all well this lovely day, this mood I am in is too happy for my normal self. The reason for this happiness has yet to be established... Just whittling down some more loved but not yet shown to you guys polishes today. They are a slight blast from the nail polish collection past as they are the first ever polishes bought from a pound shop. From then I've been addicted to purchasing polishes from these shops!

These polishes were chosen from the pound shop seeing as they are from the brand Maybelline, instead of brands which you've never even heard of inside the pound shop. Sadly these don't have really call names like Maybelline polishes do now, they are called 445 and 447. Let's start with 445:

A Little Sweetness With Sally Hansen's Strawberry Icing.

All things sweetness and light can be a little too much for myself at times, therefore these cute-sy colours are very much restricted in the stash of polish seeing as bright and bold are more sort of my thing when it comes to nails. However today is going to be a very cute and girly polish...

It's called Strawberry Icing by Sally Hansen in the Xtreme Wear collection, as it was being sold at a £1 the risk that it was a sweet/cute was overlooked. Strawberry Icing does give a little hint as to what it looks like, it's a pink shimmer nail polish which initially I thought was a nail topper but I was wrong...

A Swatch and Review of Mama-San...

It has been a hectic week! So much so I've realised that yesterday there was no post for you guys, so there's going to be one today instead and apologies for my forgetfulness. The reasoning behind the forgotten post is that there's been quite of overtime floating around at work, I believe I've done triple my normal hours. I am overwhelmed, anyway on to the post I promised.

 This lovely looking bottle has been floating around the stash for a few weeks as the brighter colour have been chosen to be swatched first mainly as they catch the eye! And yes this is yet another nail polish from the brand Sinful Colors, I think I am trying to make up for lost time of not knowing about the brand by getting so many more at once. It's a little obsession at the moment.

The colour can be described as a light pink in colour with the added extra of it being metallic as well. It's a little too dark for the collection but it does look a little similar to the Barry M Silks collection however this one is a gloss finish. I'd better also disclose to you guys that this is a Poundland find, so I am not quite sure how new this little one is. It's probably from one of their collections... Onto the swatches!

GOT Challenge: Purple

It's another Golden Oldie challenge, which was really easy to decide this week seeing as this particular polish has been chosen out of the collection for quite some time. Not only was it the first purple polish I bought, it's probably one of the first that I purchased for myself. Meaning it's been around a while!

This lovely little polish is by Barry M and called 161 Vivid Purple which is a brilliant name for the polish as it describes it perfectly. However the name isn't all that exciting. It's a dark purple with a metallic shimmer effect to it which isn't too over powering. Brilliant for an evening out with friends or family!

Another Sinful Colors...

This brand is slowly but surely going up in my estimations and also growing in quantity in the nail polish stash. They just seem such great nail polishes in colour and price quality. And when I just went into Boots to add some more extra points to my card (Which I'd definitely recommend if your a large polish purchaser at Boots) I saw there was another collection which had come out at the top of the stand. It's called Almost Famous and when I saw this particular polish, I just HAD to have it as I loved it. You know that feeling?

It's a dark but bright red with small red glitter running through out - almost like tiny glitter! The collection title is really fitting to the nail polish seeing as it's very glamorous like the dresses actresses where to big awards (You can tell here I pay loads of attention to celebrities...) So lets get the first coat on of Sugar Sugar by Sinful Colors:

 

Matte Suede - Wonder what that looks like...

I have to confess that this is another nail polish that was purchase and never used or tested on my nails until now... And I am saddened that I haven't seeing as testing it today was a complete success as the outside of the bottle doesn't do it justice seeing as it's a bit murky after accidentally breaking one of the nail polish bottles in the nail polish tin. The contents inside the bottle look a lot better on the nails!

It's called 933 Emerald City by good old Revlon and it was another nail polish that was purchased from a £1 shop which is the reason why the lettering has disappeared as it's damaged therefore has been sold onto the £1 shops. Hopefully it's still wildly available as it's lush. Here's the evidence to prove it, in form of the first layer:

Youtube discovery: Part Three.

It's the last in this series! I'll probably get some more of this lovely brand as I've liked it so much after doing them for this blog... The colour I am reviewing today from the Sinful Color collection is possibly the favourite of the Youtubers seeing as it was mentioned many times. Therefore it's popularity is why I chose it as well as the lovely colour.

The colour itself is a very mute green/teal which contrasts the name of the nail polish seeing as apples are very very green. The camera doesn't show up this element but it also has a light shimmer as well. That's always a plus!

That's the first coat of the nail varnish which was really easy to apply, thanks to the lovely brush in the nail polish and the solution of the nail polish made it simple to do. Only thing needed at this point is another coat definitely.

So far so lovely a colour, brilliant colour for this season which I never seem to accomplish as I am a sucker for any colour! Brilliant application for a nail polish in addition to the fact that it only costs £2. (Brilliant for a budget!) Only thing now is a final coat which is still needed with this colour.







Just fab! No major downsides to this one - only a bit streaky in places and needs three coats at points. Therefore I'd agree with all the fabulous Youtube reviewers as this is really nice.