I have been wanting to try to some polishes from Candy Coat for ages and I finally got three and wanted to share my swatches of them. The formula of these polishes are quite thin and sheer on the first one or two coats, but the shades are beautiful once they're opaque and I love all three of them! The three shades are pale, muted, pastel colours... which are perfect for spring! I applied very thin coats so the pink and blue took three coats and the yellow took four, but if you applied thicker coats you might be able to get them opaque in less coats.

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You can buy these polishes from Candy Coats website -- lovecandycoat.com -- for £6 each.

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I recently tried three of Essence's new Shine Last & Go! polish collection. The three shades I'm swatching in this post are Millennial Pink, Razzle Dazzle, and Legally Pink. All three of these polishes have a great, gel-shine and quick dry formula. 

04 MILLENNIAL PINK

A lovely pale pink shade. Two coats.

28 RAZZLE DAZZLE

A metallic, shimmer silver. Two coats.

13 LEGALLY PINK

A bright and vibrant red/pink shade. Two coats.

The formula on these polishes are great and I absolutely love both of the pink shades. I can't wait to try more shades from Essence's Shine Last & Go! range.

Essence's website has these polishes listed at £1.60 and they are definitely worth trying. Find out more about these polishes and browse all of the shades at HERE.

- N :)

I was recently gifted three stamping polishes from Born Pretty and they are beautiful. The polishes are Dim Light, a beautiful copper/bronze metallic shade. Bright Yellow Sprouts, a bright yellow shade. And Blueberry Macaron, a spring, pastel blue.

DIM LIGHT

 Two coats, no top coat.

 Stamped over Cotton - Barry M. Plate: Pro 19 - Moyou London.

BRIGHT YELLOW SPROUTS

 Two coats, no top coat.

 Stamped over Barry M's Cotton. Plate: Tropical Punch - Born Pretty.

BLUEBERRY MACARON

 Two coats, no top coat.

 Stamped over Damson - Barry M. Plate: XL-001 - Beauty Big Bang.

Product IDs: 42855, 42861, 42860
You can buy the polishes here...
DIM LIGHT - £2.26
BRIGHT YELLOW SPROUTS - £1.20
BLUEBERRY MACARON - £2.26

Oh, and don't forget, if you want 10% your Born Pretty order to use my discount code: NMYX31 at bornpretty.com

- N :)

[GIFTED FROM BORN PRETTY]

 Stamped over BBB's Pink. Plate: BBB XL-042.

 Two coats, no top coat.

 Stamped over Barry M's Rhubard. Plate: BBB-017.

 Two coats, no top coat.

 Stamped over Barry M's Lemonade. Plate: Moyou London Pro 19

You can buy these polishes for £2.29 each here...
BROWN
PINK
PURPLE

Oh, and don't forget, if you want 10% your Beauty Big Bang order to use my discount code: NIME10 at beautybigbang.com.

- N :)

[GIFTED FROM BEAUTY BIG BANG]

I have tried a few black and white stamping polishes from different brands. Black and white stamping polishes are an essential thing to have for me because they are the colours I use the most, so I like to try any that I can to see how they perform.

I realised that I hadn't tried Born Pretty's black and white stamping polishes, so I decided to change that.

Born Pretty sell stamping polishes in seemingly endless shades and I've tried a few and really liked them so I wanted to try their black which is called Throne and their white which is called Pure.

The polishes are super opaque, as you would expect with stamping polishes. When applied like regular polish Throne is a one-coat polish, which Pure did need two, because one coat looked a little streaky (it was super close to being a one-coater though).

Using them to stamp was great, the designs pick up really well and clearly and they apply perfectly opaque designs onto the nail.

As they are really opaque they do tend to like to cling to the skin around the nail... Which is the case with pretty much all of the stamping polishes I own. So I would recommend using a liquid latex barrier when stamping with these two.

The bottle are 6ml each and are only £2.26 a bottle, which technically makes them the cheapest black and white stamping polishes I have in my collection... Which is awesome!

Swatches:

Designs:

You can buy these polishes for £2.26 each HERE.

Oh, and if you want 10% off your Born Pretty order... use my discount code: NMYX31

- N :)

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Today I have swatches of two stamping polishes I recently got sent by Beauty Big Bang which I'm super excited about! I really enjoy trying out Beauty Big Bang's products, and BBB's stamping polishes are becoming my go to's when I do stamped designs. Until now I had only tried their solid colour stamping polishes (black, white, green & yellow), so I was excited to try a couple with different formulas.

I tried one of their duochrome stamping polishes and one their holographic stamping polishes. I own a lot of duo chrome and holographic polishes, but they're not formulated to be used for stamping so I was excited to try ones that are.

The duochrome collection and the holographic collection each have five shades (you can buy them as a set of individually). I decided to try a blue/purple shade from each collection - because I'm just automatically drawn to blue shades. (Both are 9ml bottles)

Duochrome

First I have 005 from the Duochrome collection, which is a darker blue shade that shifts to purple (it also has a gold shift in the bottle, but that doesn't show up as much on the nails are the purple and blue tones). Unlike the creme formula stamping polishes from BBB it is not a one-coater, it did take two coats to be opaque on the nail. The shade is a lovely medium-dark blue and is a great winter shade and I will probably wear this more as a base shade than a stamped shade.

I stamped this over a white based and absolutely loved the result, it doesn't stamp as opaque as the creme shades (which I guessed would be the case based on it needed two coats in my swatch), but over white the design was completely visible but had an almost translucent look to it, which when I put a matte top coat on looked grainy and beautiful.

Holographic

Next is 005 from the Holographic collection and I was instantly in love with it. It's a kind of blurple shade (somewhere between blue and purple, I can't decide which it's more of so it's blurple). The shade is vibrant and is a linear holo. It took two coats to be opaque on my nails. It has a shiny finish (though it looks just as beautiful with a matte top coat).

It stamps great on both dark and light shade base polishes. It does have a different look depending on the light or dark base, but I love it both ways. On the white base the base of the polish was super vibrant, on the dark base the colour was less vibrant but the holo glitter came through about better than on white.

Both of these polishes are absolutely beautiful and if you are looking to add some variation to your stamping polishes collection then both of these polishes and I'm sure the others in both collections would make a lovely addition to your nail polish collection.

You can buy these polishes individually for £3.45-3.49 from Beauty Big Bang: HERE

Or in the sets for £15.20 per collection

Oh, and if you want 10% off your Beauty Big Bang order... use my discount code: NIME10

- N :)

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