Topic Tuesday: Top 5 Toppers

Fancy Gloss Magma

Emily de Molly Deadly Secret

Jessica Holographic Topcoat

Sally Hansen Copper Penny

Polish Me Silly Glow Girl

   

Nails: Top 5 Summer Polishes 2022

Summer Solstice will be tomorrow and so I should get around to sharing my top summer polishes for 2022. These are the polishes from my collection I will be reaching for more often.

If you are interested you can see my summer picks for 2021 here, 2020 here, 2019 here, 2018 here, 2017 here, 2015 here and 2014 here.

Orly - Crash the Party // Polish Me Silly - Glow Girl // ILNP - Funshine Smoothie // AJ Nails - Peacock // Barry M - Holographic Lights

Crash the Party is a bright warm neon purple polish, quite bold and very difficult to photograph.

Glow Girl a flakie topper, I recently wore it over a lilac cream for a ethereal sort of design.

Funshine Sunshine is a bright warm yellow holographic polish, holo polishes look great in sunlight.

Peacock is very much a neon green, one that is opaque in two coats and no white base coat required. Neon polishes are something I reach for more often in summer.

Holographic Lights, is another holo polish so great in sunlight, and this one is a bright silver.

   

Nail Art: Ethereal Glow

Base Polish | Barry M - Party Ring

Topper Polish | Polish Me Silly - Glow Girl

   

Nail Art: Matte Glow

After wearing Glow Girl I decided to wear it matte, and you can see all the different colour shifts in the flakes.

Black Polish | Rimmel - Matte Black

Flakie Polish | Polish Me Silly - Glow Girl

Matte Polish | Barry M - Matte Top Coat

  

Nail Polish Swatch: Polish Me Silly - Glow Girl

Colour | Purple, Cyan, Pink

Finish | Multichrome Flakie Topper

Opacity | One Coat over Black

Brush Type | Flattened

How Much | 15ml

Vegan | Yes

Cruelty Free | Yes

Purchased From | Rainbow Connection

  

Nail Polish Battle 2021: Glitter, Flakie, Shimmers

Now that it's December, it's time for my annual nail polish battle. I find it interesting to look back over the year at the new polishes I have acquired and seeing which ones are my favourites.

Since last years nail polish battle I have 78 new nail polishes which is ten more than last year. Today I am looking at the new 11 glitters, flakies and shimmers.

Bow - Blinder - Flash // Nail Artisan - Nobody Move! // Polish Me Silly - Glow Girl // Polish Me Silly - Glow For It // Polish Me Silly - Candy Glow // Models Own - Dove // Models Own - Duck // Models Own - Swan // Lumen - Crystal Cave // Cure Nails - Disco // Emily de Molly - Deadly Secret

Choosing my top three wasn't too difficult;

Polish Me Silly Glow Girl - I spent a good few months at the beginning of the year looking for a dupe for a purple, blue clear flakie polish I had seen and liked. Finally saw this one was in stock and it met my flakie need.

Emily de Molly - Deadly Secret is a black shard glitter in a clear base, something unique, I got more recently for Halloween based nail art. I've seen a lot of spooky polishes that have shard glitter in them, rather than buying a lot of different polishes buying a topper means can use with polishes I already own.

Which means that Bow Blinder Flash is the winner of this nail polish battle. The finish of the polish looks like a standard glitter but when a light is shining on it the polish glows. Flash reactive, similar to cat eyes on the road which is a very unique finish polish to my collection.

  

Topic Tuesday: Favourite Flakies

I have shown Magma a few times recently, however it is autumn in a flakie polish. Along with that one this past year I was on the hunt for a blue purple flakie, eventually I got one from Polish Me Silly.

Polish Me Silly Glow Girl // Fancy Gloss Magma