OPI "Nothin Mousie Bout It" Review & Swatches!

Hello everyone!

Today I'm reviewing another limited edition OPI polish. This one is from the Vintage Minnie Mouse collection from S/S '12, and it's one I've had my eye on for a while. I tried to get a bottle in many different shops, but even Selfridge's in London were sold out by the time I had money to spare! It's a very popular polish, and it doesn't help that the display rack for this collection only has 2 or 3 spaces for bottles of this polish at one time! No matter, because this weekend I took a trip to Debenhams in Southampton (which I thoroughly recommend visiting - it's never busy and there is so much choice of stuff, they have all sorts of brands including Benefit, YSL and even some lesser known ones, and of course a biiig selection of OPI) and sitting there were the last 2 bottles in the shop of NMBI! I immediately bought one and here we have some swatches that I've done below - I've swatched 2 coats of NMBI over 1 coat of OPI's Rosy Future.

As you can see, NMBI is pretty darn sheer. It's a jellyish pink flakie (flakes are goldy-orange, pink and purple, very very pretty in the light!) with pink heart glitter. You've got to fish this out of the botte with the brush and place them yourself, but to be honest it's not too much of a bother for me and I like being able to be exact with where the hearts are. If you tip the bottle gently to the side for a second the hearts should stick to the brush and you can place them as you want.

In these two photos, I used 1 coat of a hot pink jelly polish (name has rubbed off the bottle!) by 2True. It was free with an offer, but usually retails for something like £1.99. It's not super bad quality, but even so, it's going to chip quickly because it's cheap. Oh well! :) Anyway, this is one coat of NMBI, again heart glitter placed by hand with the bottle brush, on top of the pink.

I really do love this polish. It's not exactly cheap at £11, but I adore the flakie effect and the hearts are just adorable! I can get plenty of use out of this polish and the flakies are extremely pretty even on their own! It's not great to wear on it's own but I love it over Rosy Future as you can see the bluey-pinky-purple sheen of RF underneath the flakies, which makes the most beautiful shimmery effect in the light!

Later today I'll be doing a biiiig nail look roundup post, so stay tuned and I hope you like this post! :)

Pink Crystal Nails Tutorial / Barry M Jewel nail paint Review

Hello! ♫ ~ (◕‿◕✿)

One of my best friends works in Superdrug, and so I usually get to know when they have new things coming in as far as nail polish is concerned - this is really great as you can imagine because I can look forward to getting all the latest stuff!
So I was delighted to hear that Barry M have a couple new bits and pieces out. These include a Jewel nail paint range and a Gelly Hi-Shine range. The Jewel range is a gorgeous, very inventive selection of glitter polishes - the diversity of colours and textures is just amazing, and at £2.99 a bottle I was so so excited to get down to Superdrug and buy them! I have to say, the combinations of glitter are perfection in my opinion, and for such a cheap price it seems like Barry M are way ahead of the rest of the drugstore polish brands in my town. ♫ 
The Gelly Hi-Shine range is really cool too, there's about 9 shades if I remember correctly, and all the polishes dry to an extremely glossy, shiny finish, just like a gel manicure (hence the name!). These Gelly polishes are £3.99.

Anyway, today I'm going to be showing you 2 of the Jewel polishes - I've used them to create a pink crystal-themed look. (I also bought a gorgeous bright red-toned pink from the Gelly range, but I'll be reviewing that when I next do my nails!)

Firstly, here are the two polishes that I picked up:

This one is called Pink Sapphire Glitter. It's a clear base chock full of hexagonal pink glitter, super small round pink glitter, bar-shaped holo and hexagonal holo glitter. It goes on very easily, is quick drying and has a great fomula - not at all gloopy, which is surprising considering the amount of glitter in it! The bar glitter is especially beautiful in the light.

This is called Rose Quartz Glitter. It's a mix of tiny round holo and hexagonal rose pink glitter in a clear base. Again, formula and drying time are excellent and the fine holo glitter gives a lovely sheen to the nail.

Here we have photos of the finished look and what I used to achieve it:

L-R: OPI Rosy Future, Barry M Rose Quartz Glitter, Barry M Pink Sapphire Glitter, Paul and Joe Sprite

The method is very simple.

1) Put on 2 coats of Sprite. Sprite is a pale apple green and rosy pink duochrome. It's one of my most treasured polishes for a few reasons - the bottle, the very unusual colour and the price (£10.50, ouch!). In one light it appears to be an apple green pearl on the nail, in another it's a rosy glowing pink.

2) Next, apply 1 coat of Rosy Future. This is a pale, milky purple-pink duochrome, it's more sheer than Sprite and is more purple tinted. I just used this to make the colour underneath lean more towards pink in general than green to match the glitters.

3) Put on a coat of Pink Sapphire Glitter. Make sure you spread the pink hex glitter around evenly!

4) Apply a coat of Rose Quartz Glitter on top. Again, try and keep application even to get a good texture.

5) Finish off with topcoat. I personally use 17 Lasting Fix nail polish in clear - it's honestly the best I've ever used, it dries so quickly, isn't gloopy and is very very shiny. It's also £2.99!

I hope you liked this tutorial, it's very easy to do but is so lovely on any length of nail from short to long due to the gentle prettiness of the pinks used. The glitter also makes nails look a bit longer too! ♫ 

(P.S. - Just for your information, I've got a couple of photos of Sprite and Rosy Future with just Pink Sapphire on top for you to see - it's a less blingy but still very very pretty combination!)