I’m Back! Things have been fairly crazy for
the past few months and I just haven’t been able to find the time to post. Now
that the uni year is winding down and summer is fast approaching I hope to be
able to start to posting much more again. I’m jumping back in with some of my
spring favourites for this year. This year I’ve been thoroughly sucked in by
conventionally spring-y pastel shades, but i've been mixing in a few of my brights that have been thoroughly neglected over the cold months.
Revlon 'Sheer Sunburst'
I do have to admit that this polish takes a
fair amount of work, and I didn't actually see the word sheer in the title
before I purchased it, I just saw it and thought DUPE FOR CHANEL HOLIDAY! MUST
BUY! As far as the colour goes it is actually fairly close to Holiday but it
has a different finish because this polish is obviously much more sheer. It
takes three careful coats but if you’re patient enough then this does give a
really beautiful finish, quite squishy looking.
Butter London 'Trout Pout'
This is the perfect light pinky coral shade and
I love it, I already know that it will be on my nails a lot throughout spring
and summer. A bonus is the lovely butter London formula, it applies like a
dream and dries to a lovely glossy finish, this is probably my fave polish for
spring and summer and I can’t see anything taking its place any time soon. I have a post on this from last summer that you can read here.
Essie 'Ballet Slippers'
I wear this on rare days when I want my
nails to look neat and polished but I don’t really want them to be a noticeable
colour. This is just the most beautiful very light, milky pink that applies to
the nails very sheerly and just leaves them looking very clean and
sophisticated, I know a lot of people like to use this as the base for an
at-home French manicure. I never really had too much of a problem with the thin
Essie brush but for this polish I definitely prefer the thicker brush that's on
the polishes in the Boots/Superdrug diffusion line, gives a much smoother and
cleaner finish.
Butter London 'Fiver'
This polish has replaced Essie’s mint candy
apple as my favourite light minty greeny blue! (I’m just fabulous at
descriptions, aren’t I?). This is a little lighter than mint candy apple, and
with a tiny bit less green, I just find that this looks a little bit more chic
on the nails, like a more grown up approach to a seafoam nail polish. Again,
this has an awesome formula that's opaque and ready to go in 2 coats.
OPI 'If You Moust, You Moust'
This came out last year in the vintage
Minnie Mouse collection and to be honest I bought it, used it once and then it
kind of just got lost in the shuffle and shoved to the back of a drawer until I
was re-organizing my collection about a month ago and came across it. Lovely
bright pastel pink with blue undertones, I find that it can be more forgiving
then pinks with more yellowy undertones which can sometimes make pale skin look
a bit funny.
Bourjois 'Adore-Bleu'; 2 coats of 'Adore-Bleu' in direct sunlight
This is the prettiest pastel blue that I’ve
found as yet and the formula is pretty nice. I loved ‘Bikini so teeny’ from
Essie’s summer collection last year, which was a similar shade of blue but I
found the formula to be quite streaky and hard to work with so I’m glad to have
found an alternative. This is what i've got on my nails right now for some of the first really sunny days here in the UK and I just love the way it looks.
Sinful Colours 'Boom Boom!'
This is not really a conventional spring
colour, but the weather is heating up and I think it looks really nice in the
warmer weather. It’s a darker bright pink that has some purple in it, very
pretty and very flattering, think it would probably look great on all skin
tones as well. I was ecited to see that they had started to sell sinful colours
in boots, and for only £1.99 a bottle, I may have squealed a little. I’m very
impressed with the formula as well, over all I’m a very happy camper!
Chanel 'Fracas'; Look at the subtle but beautiful shimmer when the light hits it!
As a very pale person, this is about as
bright as I can go without the colour making my hands look dirty. I’ve worn
this quite a bit already (although I think I’ll wear it the most during summer,
I’m thinking it’ll be an almost permanent fixture on my toes!) and just find it
to be the most lovely bright but not too bright pink with a tiny bit of a
sheen. Good formula too, which I’m glad of considering the high price point!
Bourjois 'Amande défilé'
This is the only colour that I really have
like this in my collection, I have so many light minty greens that have quite a
bit of blue in them but this is my only pastel green that's more yellow based.
I liked it a lot, I like this new Bourjois formula too, this isn’t quite as
easy to handle as the blue but its not too hard, especially considering pastel
crème polishes can be notoriously difficult. This looks very fresh on my nails.
Essie 'Cute as a Button'
I got this polish towards the end of last
summer so I didn’t really get a chance to wear it much before I started wearing
darker, more vampy colours for autumn and winter. A friend was looking through
my stash and re-discovered it and I’m so glad that she did! This is a lovely darker
pinky coral that happens to be really flattering on my skin tone (or at least I
think it is) and just makes me think of warmer months. The formula isn’t the
best that I’ve ever come across as it can be a little streaky but if you’re
careful then it should be fine.
