Swatcher - NYC - Top of the Gold!

Hey all,

It' Saturday (Stating the flippin obvious!) I've done nothing at all today, just been eating and depressed. Potato.

Remember the phase with gold top coat? paying up to £50 for that stuff! Well, I really wanted to try it, see what its like...is it like gold dust on my nails?! 

I bought a really inexpensive version of it, recently released by NYC  and its called Top of the Gold. Well...It's amazing! I love it! With only one brush stroke I can get full coverage of the stuff, I have to really be careful how much is on the brush! It's like an overdose of gold!

Dries really fast and perfectly smooth! Only down side is that the removal is a pain it the ARSE! It's like glitter!

Well, here are the swatches over Barry M's - Caramel

What do you guys think of this inexpensive alternative?

Thanks for reading

Bye for now

x

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Swatcher - Barry M Matte - Espresso and Caramel!

Hey ladies!

Almost Friday :D YAAAAAY! 

As you all know Barry M released some new Matte polishes a few weeks ago and I decided to buy two of them. The two that really appealed to me were Caramel and Espresso....Espresso because I was in the Halloween mood and that was such a fitting colour! I used it in my Vampire Bites post (HERE). And then I have been looking for a perfect skin tone colour and when I saw Caramel I just knew I had to have it!!!! 

I am EXTREMELY impressed by these Matte polishes! They are very Matte and very smooth and really great coverage as well as no chipping and fast drying times! Seriously perfect in my opinion :)

Here is a swatch of Espresso:

Just perfect!

Next up is Caramel:

REALLY matches my skin tone! My favorite!! :D

What do you ladies think? I really think they are worth the money :D

Thanks for reading!

Bye for now!

x

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Swatcher - Rimmel London Lasting Finish Pro - Violet Metal!

Hey ladies :)

Have a quick swatch post for you guys, I have this AMAZING purple nail polish my mum bought for me recently! It's an absolutely stunning duochrome polish, shifting from purple to blue to pink in natural light....really makes you go "oooOOooOo" and there's shimmer in it!

I think this is one of Rimmels really old shades from like 2010 or something :)

I like the square bottles much better than the rounded ones they have now!

Here are the swatches :) I have two coats on which is a plus!

Its just so pretty! What do you ladies think!?

Thanks for reading!

Bye for now!

x

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Swatcher - NYC Smokey Topcoat - Greenday!

Hello lovelies!

Whatcha all up to this Saturday?! I'm working on a new crochet project which I'm gonna keep a secret for now, when its done I'll do some nail art to match it! So keep your eyes peeled!

Today I have for you all a swatch of NYC Smokey Topcoat - Greenday. Firstly, I didn't even know this existed!! I went into superdrug to just have a look and just go "I wish I had money to spend on nail polish!" lol then I saw this beauty along with a gold topcoat on the shelf! I was like oh hell, I have to buy this! Picked it up and went to the till. I had no spare change, Nooooooo :( So I asked how many points I had on my Superdrug card and wow, I had enough!

(I'm not cheap, I spend about £150 a month on travel from my student loan which isn't enough to spend carelessly!)

My thoughts on this polish is that it is amazing, I knew it would be similar to the Smokey Muse I swatch a few months back HERE. It has amazing green hex glitters along with some duochrome little glitters which shine blue, green, gold and purple in the light from what I can see! They are all suspended in a black gelly :) My swatch is one thin coat and one thick coat which both dried averagely. This is definitely my favourite polish to date!

Here it is!

What do you guys think of this polish? :)

Thanks for reading!

Bye for now!

x

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Swatcher - Revlon Scented - GrapeFruit Fizz!

Hey lovelies!

Thank bloody goodness grief it is FRIDAY! I am tired of travelling with the train, Flipping Metropolitan here in London keeps getting delayed or terminating earlier than I want it to! Can you believe I took 7....YES 7 trains on Tuesday due to flippin signal failures!

Phew! Now onto today's postie post :) I have for you another Revlon Scented polish and it is GrapeFruit Fizz, another extremely sheer polish that took about 4 layers and you can still see my nail line. I love the sparkle it but I am really not a fan of the smell! It smells like grapefruit but more like those cleaning products that have the scent of a flavor! I don't like it at all!

Here it is :)

Overall, I am not a fan of it...glad it was for £1 and not the original price lol since I would have defo regretted buying it!

What do you ladies think?

Thanks for reading!

Bye for now!

x

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Swatcher - Barry M - Red Glitter!

Hey All!

I have a swatch for you all today :) it's some amazing red glitter by Barry M!!

I love how fine the glitters are and only takes 2 coats for full coverage! The glitter layers all dry really quickly which is always a plus! 

Here it is!

I also did a guest post over at PishPosh And Polish for Kerrie Black using this red as my base colour! 

Check it out HERE!!

What do you ladies thinkies!?

Thanks for reading <3

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Bye for now 

x

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Swatcher - Revlon Scented - Grape Fizz!

Hey Lovelies!

I have some great news! I popped into the Pound shop to buy some tissues and was faced with a bunch of Revlon polishes! :O *gasp!* But these polishes cost so much! how could they be here for only a pound?! 

As you do, you start picking out the ones you like and end up buying them all! Even the colours you don't want (I hope I'm not the only one that does that!) 

Today I'm gonna show you Grape Fizz :) It's suppose to smell like grapes and it does! The smell is so strong that I could smell it while crocheting! Even when I added topcoat I could still smell it, I thought that maybe the topcoat would take away the smell but it had no effect on it!

I absolutely love the little fleckles in it! They're like gold and so damn shiney!

I have to warn you all that most of the Revlon Fizz Scented polishes are so very sheer, Grape Fizz took about 4 coats to make it opaque and even then the nail line was visible. I didn't mind this!

Here is the pics!

What do you guys think?! :D

Thanks for reading!

Bye for now!

x

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Swatcher - Sally Hansen - Strike A Pose!

Hey ladies!

Today I  have a swatch post for you all today! Been to the Pound shop again and found this Sally Hansen beauty!

It's definitely not a colour that I would use but I got it anyway because Sally Hansens are expensive! And I knew that this polish would bee great for a jelly sammich!

I did a little research and Strike A Pose is from the Prabal Gurung for Sally Hansen Spring 2011 Collection!

The shade is described as an palescent pearl, but seriously when you have it on it like an amazing duochrome effect a kinda bluey-purpley undertone to it :)

You really have to layer this polish on, I have four coats on but to be fair it was worth it. They drying time was quick so I was able to layer on with ease! That's always a plus, right?

Nail line was till visible but that didn't bother me :) 

Here are the swatches!

I have a feeling this polish is more like a topper for plain effect polishes. What do you guys think?!

Stay tuned tomorrow for some stamping on this amazing colour!

Thanks for reading!

Bye for now!

x

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Swatcher - 2true Glitterati Shade 4!

Hey Ladies!

I have a glitter review and swatch today for you all! 

I'm sure you have all seen the Glitterati collection by 2true :) I have one of them today for you all and its Shade number 4. Would be nice if they had a fancy name, right!?

Anyways, I like this glitter...my nitty picks are that I wish the base wasn't so stinky and it just drags the base colour and makes it patchy :( I suggest painting a layer of topcoat and then waiting about 20 - 30 mins until it all fully dries and then add this glitter on top!

Other than that I love the glitters! It includes small and large hexes in the colours blue and pink! Makes any coloured base pretty :D I have it layered over O.P.I - Mediterranean Moonlight!

Here it is :)

You can really see that this glitter really adds another edge onto the base colour :)!!

What do you guys think?! I really want to get my hands on the other shades!

Thanks for reading :)

Bye for now!

x

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Swatcher - Barry M - Ruby Glitter!

Hey Ladies!

A few days off from blogging, Been busy doing errands and such! I have great news too!! I got my results for my science course I was doing! I achieved 3 Distinction* thats equivalent to 3 A* :D I am so proud of myself that I was able to achieve this....This means that I got my first choice University place! So coming September I will be starting Biomedical Science at Brunel University!! I am actually so excited! woo!

Since I'm loving glitter lately I bought Barry M's - Ruby Glitter! This is such a beautiful glitter full of pink and black hexes and micro bar glitters! :D I absolutely adore this! It's my new favorite!

I was able to get a great coverage with just one brush stroke. The glitter is so densely packed that one coat was enough! The base it was in dried super quickly and I am very pleased with this buy :)

My swatch is over NYC - Lavender Cupcake :) on my dominant hand (lefty!)

Do any of you ladies do this too!? I know Mina from Cubbiful does! :D lol

Annoying side note: seems like I posted this blog post earlier but blogger kinda effed up do it was saved in drafts as an empty post :( had to write everything again!

What do you ladies think?

Thanks for reading!

Bye for now!

x

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