It's March already, and although the UK has been experiencing a 'blizzard' this week, I'm super excited that it's almost spring again. Spring is the perfect time of year for pastel colours and I love pastel nail polish shades. I have a lot of pastel polishes that I love to wear during spring, but these are my top 5 pastel shades from Barry M:

Sky Blue

A pale pastel blue shade, this colour just screams spring to me. I own A LOT of blue polishes, and although I usually prefer either brighter or more muted blue tones, this is a lovely subtle blue that works great as a light base colour for spring nail art designs. 2 coats, no top coat.

Prickly Pear

A perfect pastel purple. I wear this polish a lot, all year round, but especially in spring. I don't have any polishes similar to this, I don't have enough purples in general to be honest, but this is a purple that is cooler and has a more blue-ish tint that the majority of purples I own. But this has been a spring favourite of mine for a few years now. 2 coats, no top coat. 

Raspberry Sorbet 

The most recently release polish on this list, part of Barry M's recent Candy Culture collection, this is a purple shade, that leans heavily towards a more pink tone than the previous purple shade on my list. It also has a lovely raspberry scent, although the scent doesn't really impact my opinion in one way or another, it does add a cute quirk to it. Watch my full swatch and review video of this collection here. 

Lemonade

I love yellow polish. And this is currently my favourite yellow shade that I own. It's part of Barry M's Coconut Infusion collection, which I love the formula of all the ones I've tried. And for a pale yellow it covers perfectly in 2 coats, which isn't often the case. I don't know what else to say about it. I just love it. 2 coats, no top coat.

Full Throttle

Now I adore lemonade, as you could probably tell. But it is not at the top of my list from pastel spring shades. That's because I am completely in love with this unique shade, Full Throttle. Part of the Speedy Quick Dry collection, it's a pale orange shade. I don't own anything else close to this in shade, and I love how the peachy-orange colour looks against my skin tone, which I don't usually feel for orange polishes. 2 coats, no top coat.

Nail designs using these shades & Enchanted 09 plate by Moyou London...

What are your favourite spring polishes? Do you prefer pastels on your nail during spring? Let me know in the comments or tweet me @nimynails.

- N :)

My latest nail polish collection: Four Spring, is out now and so I wanted to post swatches and a bit more information about each of the polishes.

With this collection I wanted to create some creme polishes, because I hadn't made any until now. I made these shades based of the kind of colours I love to wear on my nails during spring.

So without further ado...

Blowing Bubbles

2 coats with top coat

Sky blues are a classic spring go-to shade for me, and so I knew I wanted to create one for this collection. This name is inspired by a really silly old YouTube video of mine from almost 11 years ago, of my brother singing about blowing bubbles while in the bath (it's probably the most pointless video I've ever posted on YouTube, and I've posted a lot of complete nonsense: there are 4 parts, but this is one of them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRVETwixxdo, I warn you that you'll never get back the few seconds you waste of your life watching this stupidity).

Mama Likes It Taupe

2 coats with top coat

This is a taupe-nude shade, this was originally a custom shade that I made for my Mum for Christmas. I feel in love with the shade and decided to make it a part of this collection. The name is based on the fact that my Mum is obsessed with taupe shade nail polishes.

Margarita Pool

2 coats with top coat

This is a pastel spring green creme that is perfect for the spring and summer months. I think this is a also a great colour for some beautiful spring nail art designs. The name is based on a scene from the tv show The Last Man On Earth, where Tandy (one of my fish's namesakes) is laying in a paddling pool full of margarita.

Apricot Smoothie

3 coats with top coat

This is my favourite of the four, it's a peachy-yellow shade. I love this colour and I wanted to create it because I didn't own anything close to it. I love peach polishes but I don't own very many and I wanted a new peachy shade to wear this spring. The name is based on the fact that when I was pouring the first batch into bottle it looked like a smoothie that I wanted to drink (obviously I didn't haha)

You can buy each of these polishes for £5 on my website: www.nimynails.com