'insert name' holo bar glitter franken?!?!

Hey everyone! Hope you're all having a nice weekend. With my dissertation handed in this is my first weekend in ages where I have felt a little bit more relaxed! I went for dim sum today and then ventured into Oxford Street to look for a new outfit for some upcoming job interviews but I couldn't find anything I liked. I even came away from Topshop with no nail polishes so all in all it was a pretty rubbish day shopping wise but I guess I've saved myself a few pennies.

I'm sure UK folk will agree we've been having some pretty awful weather lately. We're almost in May and I still put my central heating on and I'm still wearing my down coat or as I call it my sleeping bag coat! With the sun playing hide and seek I've also not felt much urge to take pictures of my nails and so I'm pretty behind with swatching new polishes.

I still have to swatch the new Barry M's but in the meantime I want to show you a 'franken' I made using holographic bar glitter I picked up when I bought the microbeads a few weeks back for the fish egg mani.

I don't really want to call this a franken because all I did was put all the glitter I bought into an unused Boots 17 glittery top coat I had lying in my drawer and hoped for the best. Thankfully the colour didn't bleed from the glitter so the clear base remains and I can layer it over difference polishes.
Here it is two coats over CC's Bluetopia. What do you think? What shall I call it?

IRL it is very sparkly which I've failed to capture!

And if you were wondering what this looks like matte...

This has definitely inspired me to try more frankens but the hassle of finding good glitter makes me think I should leave it to the people who are good at it...

Barielle Myrza's Meadow

Taking a quick break from my dissertation and just found this in my drafts and thought I'd upload it as I've not done any swatches since my middle nail broke! I wore this a few weeks back and if I remember correctly the formula was a bit naff and the overall finish without a top coat reminded me of mushy peas and my lecturer of baby sick (nice!). There are little bits of holo glitter throughout and these really came to life in the sun. Still love it though because it's quite unique.
Have you got this? What do you think?

Vote for me! Please :-)

I've just entered my MMM nails

in to Avon UK's Perfectly Polished Nailwear competition! If you like them please please vote for me! You can vote here. I'm number 130. When you vote you'll have to enter a name and an email address, obviously for marketing, so if you don't want to give these details I understand! Thanks muchly!!! xxx

Blue Jeans White Shirt....Barry M Denim

No wordy post from me again, my dissertation is making me lose the will to live and to write! I promise once it is handed in next week things will change! Anyway just a quick swatch of Barry M Denim I did before I broke my nail. The important things to say about this polish is that it dries to a matte finish and the formula is uh-maz-ing. What you are seeing on my fingers is just one coat! And also I guess it does look a little like Denim. Enjoy.

Blue with silver flecks!

With a glossy top coat

NOTD

Last night I painted my nails using a Color Club polish I picked up as part of a set in TK Maxx. After applying a coat of Seche Vite I went to bed only to find the polish had receded quite badly by the morning. Receding is nothing new especially when using Seche Vite but I do find Color Clubs suffer the most. So not wanting to remove it all I decided the easiest way to remedy the problem was to paint some funky tips.

I used some nail guides I bought from eBay and painted the tips using Ch G For Audrey. It's quite Summery don't you think?

Enjoy your day!