Golden Swirls Nail Art

I had a bit of a mind block when I was trying to name today's contribution to Nail Art Sunday… In the end I went for "Golden Swirls" :)

The base polish is By K Autumn Leaf, a fantastic toffee colored polish! Then I used Essence Gold Digger to stamp on a pattern from MoYou plate Pro Collection-07. To get that final touch I dotted on a few dots of a golden textured polish from Barry M called Duchess.

I was very happy with the result and wore it several days! :D

How do you like this manicure?

What would you have called this nail art?

Lime Crime Peaches Cream - swatches and review

This is not an ordinary peach cream - it's a creamy neon peach! It's really bright and it makes my hands look tanned which is always a plus :)

I love Lime Crime's delicate frosted bottles with that beautiful unicorn print on them!

GOOD TO KNOW:

Type of polish: Creamy neon.

Number of coats: Two.

Formula: Good! Very easy to control. I only wish it was more self leveling.

Brush: Very good! No complaints.

Top Coat: Yes, one coat. Necessary to make it more smooth looking and shiny. Being a neon it dries a bit matte.

Color accuracy in pictures: Accurate. Perhaps even more brighter peachy live. 

Grade: 4/5

This is a lovely shade of peach and it's so fun that it's a neon! The formula is good and the wearability is amazing! I've worked almost 20 hours this past week-end as a florist and there isn't a mark or any sign of chipping at all! Peach isn't one of my favorite colors though so it's a 4 from me ;)

How do you like Peaches <3 Cream?
Have you tried any other Lime Crime's?

H&M Peach Me Soon - swatches and review

I found this little gem about a month ago on a small shelf at H&M marked "Just arrived". Peach is normally not my color, I do like it but it usually doesn't suit my skin tone. Anyway, a friend of mine fell in love with it but neither she or I have been able to find it again anywhere?! Strange.

No matter how I tried my camera didn't want to capture the right shade of this polish. It is not this orange looking. It's more a pale almost dusky orange peach. Really pretty actually!

GOOD TO KNOW ABOUT PEACH ME SOON:

Type of polish: Cream.

Colour: A pale dusky orange peach.

Opacity: Very good! This is two coats.

Formula: Very good! Self leveling.

Brush: Very good! No complaints. The cap is a bit big to hold but H&M's all new polishes have a new normal cap. Great!

Shine: Very shiny on its own so I have no top coat in these pictures.

Accurate colour, photo vs IRL: Quite accurate, but not quite so orange looking even though it's an orange peach color.

Grade: 4/5 :)

Peach isn't my best color but this one has quite a lot of orange in it so it actually suits me fairly well. It's really strange that it's been nowhere to find though. Did they only make a small batch? Did they sell out immediately? I haven't seen it at many blogs though... Only a paler version from last year. This is a mystery to me!

How do you like Peach Me Soon?

Do you know why this polish is so hard to find?

Edgy Half Moon Manicure - swatches

For this Nail Art Sunday I want to show you a half moon manicure with a twist! The twist is that the half moons are not round but sharp and edgy ;)

The base it the wonderful and newly released "Peach Me Soon" from H&M. Then I've layered two coats of Sephora's "Twinkle Twinkle", a blue flake polish, on top of that. After this I did the sharp half moons using striping tape and Illamasqua's "Jo'mina". To seal the manicure I used on coat of Seche Vite.

I used the following polishes: (from left to right)

Illamasqua Jo'mina

H&M Peach Me Soon

Sephora Twinkle Twinkle

How do you like this manicure?

 Do you like half moon manicures?

Barry M Papaya - swatches and review

Today I'll do a review of a really fresh polish with a sort of spring feeling to it :) This is Papaya from Barry M. It's an orange peach, the same colour as the inside of a papaya - hence the name ;)

GOOD TO KNOW ABOUT PAPAYA:

Type of polish: Cream (the bottle says Gelly but it's not even a crelly).

Colour: An orange peach.

Opacity: Very good! This is two coats.

Formula: Excellent! A very nice formula which is very easy to apply.

Brush: Very good! Very nice to apply with.

Shine: Very shiny on its own so I have no top coat in these pictures. It really is a high-shine polish as it says on the bottle!

Accurate colour, photo vs IRL: Quite accurate. Perhaps a bit brighter irl.

Grade: 3+/5 :)

I 'm not a big fan of these kind of colours but when my boyfriend got this for me in London I had to try it and I actually liked it more then I first thought! It's a really bright and happy colour (even though it's pretty close to plaster colour ;))
The formula is great and perhaps it will look better on tanned skin...? I'll probably never know because I have already given it away to a very happy lady ;)

Do you like Papaya?

Have you tried any of the other Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine polishes?

Lucky Necklace Nail Art - swatches

It's Nail Art Sunday today! :D My inspiration for this manicure is a Moomin card I got from my lovely brother. You can see it below. It shows the Snork Maiden with a pearl necklace and that triggered my creativity :) This is the result:

I used Barry M Papaya, Essie Stylenomics, dotting tools and stickers

My source of inspiration :)

After the base polish Papaya I applied the four leaf clover stickers and then dotted the strings of pearls with dotting tools and Stylenomics. I sealed the mani with one coat of Seche Vite. It's a really easy and straight forward manicure! :)

How do you like this manicure?

Are you familiar with the Snork Maiden from the Moomin characters? :)