Forest, kelly, jade, mint, emerald, teal..

I am a green girl, not gonna lie. My car is green, I have a green phone.. generally, green is good in my book. Then I was trying to pick what colour to paint my nails the other day, and realised that nearly all my greens are from the high-street. As such, I thought I'd do a little post on some of my favourites, and ones that I think you should all buy!

Barry M Nail Paint in 290 Spring Green , £2.95

Another stunner from Barry M. I definitely love this colour. It's a nice, creamy, glossy green, on the pastel side, I suppose. In real life, I couldn't see any nail line, but apparently it showed in pictures. This was probably two or three coats, I'm not sure, but I love the consistency and finish of this one.

Barry M Nail Paint in 137 Lime Green , £2.95

This is a very wasabi-ish green, it's pretty awesome. However, it is crazy-sheer and stains pretty bad.. But, I will continue to wear it because it rocks. What you gonna do, hey? It took about 6 coats to get it like it is on my index nail, but although the coats go on very thin and quick, you can still see nail-line, really. I do love it, though.

Collection 2000 Hot Looks Fast Dry in 36 Ninja, £1.79 (I think? It's no more than £2!)

First off, I apologise for how sloppily I threw this on! I loveeeee this colour! It's a genuinely lovely, grass-green. Makes me feel very summery. I have to say, I have about 4 or 5 of these Hot Looks polishes and I adore them all! Well played, Collection 2000. I wish they were a tad larger though because I've gone through a bottle of another colour already, they're teeny, only 8ml. Goes on pretty smoothly, contrary to these pictures, and would probably by fine with one coat, but I used two.

Revlon Nail Enamel in Minted, £6.29

I love the colour of this polish, but I hate the formula and the price-tag! I bought this before the Barry M Ice-Cream Nail Paints were released because I was desperate for a pale, minty green. I was willing to pay the price for it, cause you do get almost 15ml, which is about the same as you get in a China Glaze/OPI. Unfortunately, every time I have used this, lots of tiny bubbles have appeared, on the surface! I hate it! I thought at first it might be that I shook it up by accident. No, I think I just have a bad bottle! Because I've seen other swatches of this and it looks fine.. Am I doing something wrong because I love the colour? I think I'll just buy the Barry M minty-green one, better formula!

There you go! A few different greens you might enjoy or want to check out. Hope you enjoyed this post! Some more nail swatches coming soon and some reviews.

New GOSH Nail Lacquers + A Drugstore Manicure!

So I was looking at holographic nail varnishes online the others day, in particular, OPI's and china Glaze's. Not really wanting to shell out £6-£10 on them in this country (or trying to find them online!) i tried searching to see if I could get get hold of any drugstore ones. I heard rumours of GOSH having a holographic polish, so i had to pop into town today so I wanted to see if I could find it. And I did!
Also, I swear these used to be £4.50? Or even cheaper? But they're now £5! Oh well.
Anyway, the colour of GOSH 549 Holographic is fantastic - a silver holo. However, this is definitely a summer colour, and definitely for those with patience. The formula is completely different to other GOSH polishes, wish slide on smooth and chunk-free. This one was gloopy and chunky, and honestly made me a bit sad! It did level out eventually, but the coverage was patchy.

One coat, bald patches clearly visible. One the bottle it advises you to use their base-coat, so I used my go-to OPI basecoat, and I don't think it liked that, it actually went on much better on a bare nail. A little bit of internet-searchin' tells me that this wasn't formulated for long-lasting wear, it was made for nights out and you're not supposed to use a topcoat. That's me told, I suppose.

Still, in the sun, it's damn amazing.

Check out that holo, haha. But like I said previously, I think it's definitely a summer-polish, when I'm out in the sun all day, because indoors it is a dull, plain silver with a teensy bit of shimmer, see:

Not good!

The other polish I picked up was 546 Rainbow. I've seen this before, but never really fancied it until now, for some reason. In any case, it's incredible!

As soon as I got home I whacked it on over the Revlon Minted I was wearing, and it looked pretty sweet.

Then I wondered what it would look like with China Glaze's Matte Magic over the top.. and let me tell you it's also excellent. The flakes seem to really glow when you do this.

I swatched it over a few different colours and found it looked great over pinks and purples. I got this colour at Sainsbury's a week ago, and contrary to what my camera says, Rimmel Blue My Mind is a definite blue-purple, just my camera wouldn't pick up the purple bit, loser.

On it's own.
And with Rainbow on top..:


I think this would look great over a black, and I want to try it over a hot-pink next! You can't really see it in all the pictures, but the flakes have a greenish blue flash to them, as well as the pinkish-orange that's clearly visible. It sunlight, they really glow, and the flakes are excellent, I can't keep my eyes of them!

Both are £5, and available from your nearest Superdrug, and I think you can even get selected shades on the Superdrug website. (:

On a note, yes, my nails are shorter! I broke three of them at work, and had to file them all ridiculously short. I'm not even going to show you my right hand, it's that atrocious!