Philly Loves Lacquer - Summer Down The Shore Collection

Hello everyone! Today I have a fab new collection from Philly Loves Lacquer to show you (the polishes were sent to me for review). I had been waiting patiently for these to arrive only to find out that they had been held up in Customs (grrrrr!). But they finally arrived at the weekend so I could get swatching! 

Starting with the glitter bomb that is Meet Me At Morey's. This has so many different kinds of glitter in it I wouldn't know where to start. Its shown here as two coats over Love Those Wildwood Days (more on that one later!) and with one coat of top coat.

Next we have the colour I used for the base above, Love Those Wildwood Days. Its a beautiful light sky blue scattered holo. I loooove the tone of this blue. Its poictured here with two coats and no top coat.

Wildwoods By The Sea is next and I love this sea green, teal-esque (yay, new word!) scattered holo. I rarely find polishes that I'd be happy to wear on their own without nail art, but this is one of them. The pictures show two coats and no top coat.

Next up is the champagne frosty goodness of Island Beach, another fab scattered holo. This one needed three coats, but the finish was excellent.

This next polish, On The Way To Cape May, is my favourite of the bunch (along with Wildwoods By The Sea). This surprises me as I'm not usually a huge fan of reds. But this red is full of strawberry-toned, juicy awesomeness and comes with a side of red and silver shimmer. This again was three coats and no top coat.

Last but not least from my selection, we have Watch The Tram Car Please. A fun yellow crelly with blue and green glitters. Shown here is three coats and one coat of top coat. I usually get annoyed applying this kind of polish, but this one was surprisingly easy.

Overall I love the collection, and the only reason I wouldn't wear the crelly is that yellow is not a fan of my skin tone! The stand out shades for me are On The Way To Cape May and Wildwoods By The Sea, plus there is another colour in the collection called Under The Boardwalk that I think would probably have been my absolute favourite (a charcoal grey with a purple shimmer). I'll be stalking the shop until the collection is released for that one!

The Summer Down the Shore collection will be available from 1st June at the Philly Loves Lacquer shop. Full size bottles will retail at $11-12. The entire collection will be available at $85 for full size bottles or $42.50 for the mini size bottles. You can also buy a "4 pack" (your choice of any four from the collection) for $42.50 for full size, or $21.25 for minis.

Sam xx

New Moyra polishes - Gel effect, Sand Effect and Holo

Hello everyone! After a massively busy weekend, I have a lovely pile of polishes to swatch my way through for you over the next week or so. There will also be the usual dose of nail art, but I hope you're ready for some super colours coming your way. 

I'm starting today with some more polishes from Moyra. I recently was sent some for review and as I was impressed with the colours and formula, I thought I'd go back for some more. This time I chose some polishes from their other ranges - a holo, a gel look and a sand effect.

Starting with the holo. This has the catchy title No 254 (!), but don't let that put you off - this is a super polish! A lovely silvery blue to start off with, the light catching rainbow from the holo effect it stunning! This is two coats with a coat of Seche Vite.

Next up is the Sand Effect polish, this one is Sahara. I'm not sure why it appealed to me so much in the website picture as its not the sort of colour I would normally go for, but I had to have it! It is a beautiful sandy colour with a lot of gold, but it manages not to be sparkly. The texture is very strong and these photos show two coats and obviously no top coat.

Last but not least, we have the Gel Look polish (and my continuing quest for the perfect green), Marion (No. 933). I had a nightmare trying to get the colour to show properly and I'm still not happy. Its a mid green that's just slightly sagey, creamy and opaque at two coats. It also has a lovely gel shine and is shown here without a top coat.

I stamped over this one and have been wearing it for almost 5 days now. I have had no chips and only very minor tip wear which after setting up the garden for a kids party and hosting said party is a minor miracle!

These polishes offer amazing value for money and having tried at least one polish from most of the ranges, they seem to be fairly consistent. There is a website coming soon, but if you would like to buy in the meantime, check out the Moyra UK Facebook page and take a look at what they have to offer :)

Sam xx

Tri Polish Tuesdays and NAILS Mag 31DC "Holo"

Hello everyone! I am totally in love with the nail art that I have to show you today. I realized that I always seem to work with plain backgrounds and usually add the glitzy detail over the top, but decided to work it the other way around for today! I've used all three colours in my other March Tri Polish manis si went with just the blue and purple this time round

I started with a base of Nails Inc Motcomb Street and topped it with Cacee Nails Sapphire Dazzle which is a simply stunning holo glitter topcoat (glitter toppers are allowed!). I then added a freehand painted a floral swirly design (technical term for you right there!) using a blend of China Glaze Spontaneous and Barry M Gelly Prickly Pear before finishing with Seche Vite.

I know I may have cheated slightly with the two purples, but hopefully you'll let me off for this one!

We have our new April colours starting next week - yellow, pink and blue, so there will be some new Tri polish looks popping up as of next week. Here are the colours I have chosen for the next three months:

Don't forget to check out everyone else's fab designs via the Inlinkz below!

Sam xx

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