BARRY M BLUE MOON & STRAWBERRY

Barry M Blue Moon & Strawberry I/C (ice cream?) - £2.99 each

Today I opted for a pastel themed nail look which originally was intended to be just Strawberry I/C on every nail but somehow ended with Blue Moon on my ring fingers! I just love both of these polishes as they apply really well - two coats gives a perfect opaque outcome - and Blue Moon in some lights can be mistaken as a white shade so went perfect with the soft pink. 

As with most of Barry M polishes, the finish is rather glossy and a top coat isn't always needed; though I usually do as I like my nails to be extra shiny. A quick thing I found was that if you paint all your nails with the main colour and then paint the ring fingers over that, it turns out a much more vibrant and complimenting shade (or at least it does with these two colours). I suppose it's basically like painting your nails with a white base coat just with a colour instead?

Anyway, I really love both of these nail polishes and I forever stick by the fact that Barry M is amazing! If you've tried Barry M, which is your favourite nail polish? Do you like the different coloured ring fingers 'look'? 

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BARRY M SHOCKING PINK

Sticking with the ever so great Barry M nail polishes, I picked up Shocking Pink the other day after realising I didn't actually own any bright pink polishes. In the bottle it looks nice but on your nails it looks amazing; it's so bright, almost Barbie pink bright and the finish is super shiny that a top coat really isn't essential (although I always like to apply one anyway). It took me two coats to achieve a real opaque look but you could get away with just one in all honesty. As with most Barry M polishes, it applies smoothly and with ease but i have found they seem to take a lot longer to dry than other brands...maybe I'm doing something wrong?

After I'd done my nails I thought they needed something else so decided to use my newly bought glitter polish from a brand I've never heard of before called Saffron London. This polish has a mix of fine glitter and larger hexagon shapes which I much prefer in this case to smaller, more closely packed glitters. I chose to stick with just painting the one nail on each hand because I thought it'd be too much otherwise, this way it just adds a subtle bit of sparkle...

Are you a fan of Barry M nail polishes? Would you add glitter or go without?

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BARRY M 'SHIMMER' COLLECTION

So, you may have seen my previous NOTD post where I wore a Barry M polish called 'Teal' and I expressed my confusion over it seemingly not being available anywhere! Anyway, today I went into another Superdrug store and low-and-behold a whole new collection...

Aren't they just beautiful. I already had 'Teal 334' and picked up 'Silvery Lilac 324' and 'Denim 325' today but in the collection it seems that there are two other colours; a bronze which I believe is called 'Copper' (I didn't like this as much) and a mixed glitter which I am yet to see. I have only actually tried on my nails Teal (read that here), but I did swatch the three I have for you to see and wow there is some serious shimmer going on in this collection! Teal is the least shimmery of the three with only a subtle glimmer and more of a metallic look whereas Silvery Lilac (original name!) and Denim are both super shimmery. 

Obviously because I haven't tried out these two I can't really comment of how good they are but from swatting them I can tell that Denim is a very opaque polish and may only need one coat, whereas Silvery Lilac barely showed up at first. Teal needed two coats. 

I am loving what I have seen of this collection and will probably go out and buy the other two to take advantage of the current 'buy two save £1' offer. Which is your favourite of these three? 

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BARRY M TEAL

Reading the title to this post you may be thinking, Barry M doesn't do a nail polish in 'Teal', well, this is exactly what I thought until I came across this beauty whilst browsing Superdrug. The second I saw it my exact words were: 'this needs to be in my life' and so it now is...

From this nail polish you can expect an easy application of two coats (I personally think this is best), and then an amazingly amazing 'psychedelic' as my mum put it, colour on your nails. It is very, very bright and has a slight shimmer to it, so is very shiny even without a topcoat. I just love this colour, from the minute I saw it to the minute I put it on my nails I knew it would become one of my top nail polishes on my collection. These photos really do not do it justice at all, it's a really intense and vibrant colour.

One thing that has left me somewhat confused is that after scouring the internet in search of this nail polish, I have come to the conclusion that it pretty much does't exist. I looked on Barry M's own site and then tried a google search and both came up with only eyeshadow results :S So, is this a new collection to their line I wonder? 

Have you tried or even seen Barry M's Teal nail polish?

***Since writing this I have discovered that Barry M have in fact released a new line of polishes along with their magnetic effect polish which are only available in a select few stores for the time being. I'm unsure of the details of any of the other polishes***

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BARRY M MUSHROOM & SPARKLE

Barry M Mushroom & Miss Sporty Transformers Sparkle Touch

This Barry M nail polish is amazing! It is the easiest application ever (as to be expected from Barry M) and only needed one coat (although I applied two just to be on the safe side) to be opaque. I had heard so much about this polish but was always reluctant to buy it as it just looks really dull in the bottle. Oh how I was wrong to doubt it; the colour is perfect, a very dull but soft brownish shade with hints of grey tones.

I initially just had mushroom on my nails but then I wanted to jazz it up a bit so decided to paint just my ring fingers with this Miss Sporty glitter polish. This glitter has tiny flecks of blue and pink which really do compliment the mushroom colour well and so I ended up painting all my nails with it haha.

Have you ever tried Barry M Mushroom? Are you a fan of glitter nail polish?

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