Nails: Top 5 Summer Polishes 2017

Seeing as this past week it was the Summer Solstice I thought I should share my top summer polishes for 2017. If you are interested you can see my summer picks for 2015 here and 2014 here.

Claire's - Dizzy // A England - Whispering Waves // Barry M - Papaya // Cupcake Polish - Berry Good Looking // Nails Inc - St John's Way

Claire's - Dizzy // A England - Whispering Waves // Barry M - Papaya // Cupcake Polish - Berry Good Looking // Nails Inc - St John's Way

Claire's - Dizzy;

Summer calls for neons and glitter, this polish ticks all the boxes.

A England - Whispering Waves;

Holographic polishes are stunning year round, however in direct sunlight they really come in to their own. This is a beautiful turquoise.

Barry M - Papaya;

Orange is a typical summer choice, this is less in your face than a neon but still summer appropriate.

Cupcake Polish - Berry Good Looking;

As I said with the A England, holographic polishes look great in sunlight. This is a stunning purple packed with holographic particles.

Nails Inc - St John's Way;

This glitter is pastel so much less in your face than the one from Claire's. It has small white hexes, shards, and string glitter as well as very fine peach glitter in a clear base.

Nails: Rock and Roll

"Hot patootie, bless my soul

Really love that Rock and Roll"

Base Polishes: Claire's - Leather Look, Avon - Dazzle, Barry M - Lychee

Stamping Polish: MoYou - Special Nail Polish - Black

Stamping Plate: MoYou London - Roxy Collection 01

Nails: Santa's Belt Accent

Base Polish: Claire's - Leather Look
Red Polish: Ciate - Dangerous Affair

Gold Striping Pen
Black Striping Pen
Gold Gel Pen

Nail Polish Battle 2014: Glitters!

This is the final battle, before moving on to my top three. I seem to have acquired a fair few glitters this past year.

Angelica - Bobby Dazzler // OPI - Polka.com // Claire's - Dizzy // Jacava - Oxford Street // Leighton Denny - Be Unique // Leighton Denny - Be Individual // Avon - Opal // Barry M - Crystal Glaze

First I whittled these down to three, I like the purple tones to Polka.com and the Avon polish is quite unique. It isn't quite a flakie polish but it is along those lines.

The winner of the three is Claire's Dizzy, because this is quite a unique polish. Multi neon glitters are quite common in the land of indie polish but this is a main stream polish at a bargain price. This is very summer appropriate over white but I think it would work really well over black as well.

 

Swatch: Claire's - Leather Look Black

Colour: Black
Finish: Leather Look
Opacity: Two Coats
Brush Type: Standard
How Much? 9ml

I have one other black textured polish, seventeen's rock hard nail effects. They look relatively similar but they feel different, Claire's is smoother and won't click tights where as the Seventeen one has a rougher texture.

Tri-Colour Nail Challenge: Purple, Blue and Green #2

This is the second of the Tri-Polish Challenge for this month. The colours are Purple, Blue and Green. If you want to join or want to know more about this then you can do here.

I chose to use Sinful Colors Verbena, Barry M Blue Plum (blackberry) and Barry M Guava.

I did a bit of stamping along with using a new glitter polish as a bit of skittle nails.

Polishes Used: Sinful Colors - Verbena, Barry M - Guava

Glitter Polish: Claire's - Dizzy

Stamping Polish: Barry M - Blue Plum (blackberry)

Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster H16

Swatch: Claire's - Dizzy (Neon Glitter)

Colour: Neon
Finish: Topper Glitter, various hex sizes
Opacity: Two coats above over white
Brush Type: Standard
How Much? 10ml
Anything Else? There is a lot of base in this compared to glitter

33 Day Challenge: South America

Polishes Used
Claire's - Leather Look Black
Yes Love - K036
Color Club - Almost Famous
MUA - Blue
Sally Hansen - Lavender Cloud

Swatch: Claires - Slice of Shine Glitter

This is a polish from Claire's Accessories, it is a hex glitter in a clear base. Blue and pink coloured hex glitter shapes, along with some fine silver glitter.

Claire's Accessories
£2.50 - 14.7ml

Summer Nail Challenge: Pink and Blue

Color Club - Warhol
Models Own - True Blue
Claire's Accessories - Slice of Shine Glitter