Nimy Nails: indie

Polychroma Polish UK Indie Swatch & Review!

— post contains gifted items —

I'm back!

I haven't posted on here in FOREVER... but now I'm back, and I have some gorgeous indie polishes to show you today!

Polychroma Polish kindly sent me 4 of their polishes to swatch, and I wanted to share my swatches with you on here!

If you haven't heard of Polychroma Polish, they are a UK indie brand and they have a growing selection of beautiful polishes. Plus, their polishes are vegan, cruelty-free, and 10-free!

(All swatches are 2 coats, without top coat)

Do You Want to Play Video Games

I love the name, I love the base shade, I love the flakes. I love everything about this polish. Do You Want to Play Video Games is a mint green crelly polish with magenta, gold and green shifting flakies. It was opaque in 2 coats, and the flakes distributed perfectly on my nail.

Oh, and the answer to this polish's name... yes, yes I do. I ALWAYS want to play video games.

The Botanist

This polish is a beautiful teal shade with scattered holographic glitter. It was perfectly opaque in 2 coats, and the scattered holo looks absolutely stunning. Teal is my favourite colour, and I until I saw The Botanist, I hadn't realised I didn't own a single holographic teal polish. Now, I don't know how I ever lived without one. This is a beautiful shade to wear any time of year, and it is going to be a go-to of mine now!

Oh My Squash!

Part of Polychroma Polish's Scary Tales Nails Collection, Oh My Squash is an orange crelly polish with matte black glitters. This is a beautiful orange shade, and perfect for the Halloween/Spooky season, and just fall in general. I was really impressed with this polish... often, lighter colour crellies can take 3 coats to be fully opaque, but this was completely opaque in 2 thin coats! Plus, the glitters distributed perfectly on my nail, and I didn't have to fish for the glitters! If you love orange manis this time of year, this polish is perfect.

Ectoplasmic

This polish is now officially in my top 5 favourite Halloween polishes of all time! Everything about it just SCREAMS Halloween! Ectoplasmic is also part of the Scary Tales Nails Collection. It's the perfect lime green shade that reminds me of slime, and it's packed with larger matte white hex glitter, smaller matte black hex glitter, and smaller shiny red hex glitter! It applies beautifully, the glitter distributes perfectly without the need to fish for glitter, it was opaque in 2 coats, and it's the perfect combination of Halloween colours! If you're not big into nail art, but want a seriously fun mani for Halloween, polishes like this are a great and easy way of adding a flare to your nails. I love everything about this polish, and I will definitely be wearing it this Halloween!

You can purchase these polishes, and lots more polishes, from Polychroma Polish's Etsy shop: etsy.com/uk/shop/PolychromaPolish

(Prices for Polychroma Polishes range from £6 to £9)

Follow Polychroma Polish:

Facebook: facebook.com/polychromapolish

Instagram: @polychromapolishuk

Thank you so much to Sam from Polychroma Polish for gifting me these polishes! <3

And thank you so much for taking the time to read this post! I hope you all enjoyed my swatch and review of these polishes... I'll be back soon with more exciting blog posts! <3

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3 Ways To Use Jelly Nail Polish // + How-To DIY Jelly Polishes

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I recently wanted to try a jelly sandwich mani, because shockingly I never had before. But when I went to try it, more shockingly I realised that I didn't own any sheer jelly polishes that would work for a jelly sandwich. I decided to make a few of my own jelly polishes.

DIY:

If you don't own any sheer jelly polishes then here are 2 super easy ways to make your own.

For both of these, you'll need a nail polish bottle full of clear polish and steel mixing balls. Having my own indie line of polishes I obviously have a lot of polish making supplies in my house, so for mine I used some of my Nimy polish bottle and clear suspension base. But most people probably don't have a bunch of suspension base laying around, but any clear nail polish, base coat or top coat will work fine.

The 2 ways to make your clear polish into a jelly polish are to either add in liquid polish pigment (like I did with my black), or the more common option, any creme nail polish. The process is literally as simple adding a few drops of regular nail polish (or liquid pigment) into the clear polish, adding less or more depending on what level of opacity you want the jelly polish to have.

Swatches of my 3 DIY jelly polish.

My favourite 3 ways of using jelly polishes...

Sheer Base

I love, especially with black, using a sheer jelly polish as a base colour for a designs. With sheer black, I think it looks beautiful and interesting the apply 2 coats of the sheer black then a apply a stamped full nail design over the top using a opaque black polish.

Jelly Sandwich

The classic jelly sandwich technique. (While usually you'd apply the jelly polish the base polish) I prefer creating a jelly polish using a polish I already own and then using the original creme polish as the base colour. Then apply a chunky glitter, and finish with a layer of the sheer jelly polish over the glitter. I LOVE the effect of this technique, almost like the glitter chunks are inside a bunch of jelly. (I used A Grape Affair by OPI as the base colour and Summit of Style by Essie for the glitter).

Mixing up your existing polishes

Probably my favourite thing about jelly polishes is the endless possibles that owning even just one has. Especially when it comes to using jelly polish to adjust the tone and/or tone of a polish you already own. A great example of this, that I love, is apply the turquoise jelly I made over Space Glam by Essence. The rose gold glitter polish gets a completely new look when you add a layer or 2 of a different colour jelly over the top.