Nails Inc Beaded Polish - Belgravia (White) and Chancery Lane (Blue)

Afternoon!

I bought these a few weeks back, not too sure what I was expecting really. I thought they would be similar to the Barry M Sequin polishes (which, were for me at least, a massive pain in the arse to use). I've only bought two so far and this is my second time testing them. The first time around they were a complete pain, were big and chunky and just horrific. This time, though, I've gone for thinner coats and the white at least seems to have come out a lot better. The blue is still very chunky. I'm not sure if I would wear these much though.

Application can be troublesome, they can bunch together and end up a hot mess. Thinner coats is definitely better if you do try these. That, or layering one or two thin coats over a cream polish.





Belgravia is a textured sheer white with medium white and holographic shimmer. I used three coats for the photos below.

Chancery Lane is a textured sheer cobalt blue with small and medium holographic glitter. Again I used three coats.

Nails Inc Battersea Emerald Glitter Polish

3 in one day? Yeah, making up for months of nothing haha.

Battersea is a full coverage emerald green glitter - though it does have a blue undertone. For me, it's opaque in two coats and actually appears to look better without a top coat.

These pics are with one coat of Battersea over Queen Victoria Street

 

 

These pics are with two coats of Battersea on their own on my middle and ring fingers

 

Nails Inc Queen Victoria Street - Emerald Polish

Queen Victoria Street is a vibrant, rich medium green polish. It's opaque in two coats and flows over the nail beautifully. Cannot fault this at all - plus, emerald is the pantone colour of the year, yay!

Note: I have tried several different camera's with this, and the colour is still coming out the same. It's pulling towards teal in photos, but in person it is absolutely a vibrant rich green with no touch of teal in sight. Very frustrating!

Nails Inc Ladbroke Grove and Dalston Leather Effect Polishes

Aha'! I'm actually blogging again!


It's been SO long since I've actually done a blog post. I miss it so much, but life has been a little crazy the past few months. I screwed things up massively with my fella but hoping I get another chance, ended up in a very dark place and started a new job. All very mentally draining really. ANYWAY...

nails Inc released two new springy/summery leather effect shades - Ladbroke Grove and Dalston. I don't know if it's just me, but the leather effect doesn't seem so...leathery this time around. They're textured, but don't really mimic leather to me, unlike the other leather effect polishes we've seen from nails Inc (the black and red, especially). I've had a few issues with these - I wore them both a few weeks back and found that they were patchy and needed three coats. Re-swatching today and they seem less patchy and have only required two, but my nails are significantly shorter at the minute, so I'm putting it down to the length of my nails (I often find that I have more application issues with polishes in general when my nails are longer). Anyway, onto swatches!

Ladbroke Grove is a bright creamy coral.

Dalston is a light creamy blue.

Hopefully I'll be able to fully get back into blogging. I really do miss it, so let's see this time if I can keep it up!

Nails Inc Belsize Park Swatches

See...I'm actually getting back into it haha!

Belsize Park is a very bright yellow. Probably as bright as you're going to get without it turning neon. It was mostly opaque in two coats, but it felt a tad bit patchy, so I opted for three. No other complaints with the formula though.

Nails Inc Spring/Summer Trend Shade Swatches - Kensington Palace Gardens, Royal Botanical Gardens and Chelsea Physic Garden

Well...after a massive hiatus, dealing with personal issues and illnesses...I'm back! I've actually really, really missed blogging, so hopefully I'll be able to get back into the swing of things again. Thanks to my amazing boyfriend I have a new camera, which I'm still getting used to. Gonna have to break out the manual at some point. Anyway, less details, more polish!

Today I have three of the four spring/summer trend shades Nails Inc recently released. There is another, St James Park which is a hot pink, but I figured I probably had enough of those to avoid picking it up. What I do have, however, is Kensington Palace Gardens (salmon pink), Royal Botanical Gardens (mint) and Chelsea Physic Garden (pastel blue).

Kensington Palace Gardens is a light, creamy coral pink. It's mostly opaque at two coats, but I felt it was the slightest bit uneven, so ended up going for three. Initially, it reminded me a lot of Butter London's Trout Pout, so I did a comparison, and Trout Pout is a touch darker, perhaps a little more pink too. If you're a sucker for coral's you will love this!

Butter London Trout Pout on middle and ring fingers

Royal Botanical Gardens is a light, creamy mint, but it does have a definite blue tone to it. Two coats for this one and no issues with application.

Chelsea Physic Garden is a light, creamy blue. Again two coats, and no issues!

There. My first post in god knows how long. That actually felt pretty good!!

Nails Inc Feather Effect polishes

It's a surprisingly sunny Sunday afternoon! After all the rain and snow we've seen the past month it's almost a shock.  Anyway...polish...yes. I bought these a week or so ago. I loved the look of them, they look so pretty in the bottle, but I'm not too sure what I think of them on the nail. Full coverage seems to be a proper pain in the arse with these. All swatches are shown with three coats, and even then there's some visible nail line. They can tend to get a little clumped up too. I love the idea of them, but getting them to work in a manicure is hard. Still, I'll definitely give these a whirl again in the future, I just think I'll have to be more patient, and do little iddy biddy layers. Or just layer them over other polishes. If you don't like texture on your nails add top coat, but I think they look better without it.

There are actually four feather effects (feathers being matte glitter strands) Chester, York, Edinburgh and Cornwall. When I purchased these from the Nails Inc site I didn't see Cornwall listed. It popped up a few days ago, but is out of stock. I'm actually pretty pissed about that, since Cornwall looks like it would be my favourite (it looks to be cobalt blue and light aqua "feathers"...nom!). Still...

Nails Inc Bling It On Leather - Shoreditch Lane - Red Leather swatches

Yay! More leather!

I've been loving these ever since the black and tan shades were released around mid December. I haven't come across anything similar from other brands yet - actually, if anyone knows of other "leather effect" polishes, please let me know!

Nails Inc Concrete Texture polishes

The big thing for this year is texture. Every brand seems to be coming out with their own versions of textured polishes. OPI brought out their liquid sand which is amazingly pretty, I know Zoya are bringing some out that are similar to the OPI ones (matte texture with sparkly bits). Nails Inc released theirs last month, and so far I haven't seen or heard of anything similar.


The polish itself is very rough and textured - I can see why they dubbed it "concrete". It's not totally matte but it isn't shiny either. So far they have released four shades - London Wall, Monument, Marble Arch and Stonehenge. Two coats is all it takes for full opacity, and is also what Nails Inc recommends.


London Wall is a grey toned light-medium nude.

How I've "organised" my polish!

Hello! Long time no typey. Blog has been on a back burner for a long while now, and I'm going to try my damn best to not let that happen again. Lots of "real life" things going on, but anyways... This post is just showing how I've organised all my polish. It's not perfect and I'm already running out of space. It could be tons better, but I can't fit anything else in my room, so I'm kinda stuck.

I bought this unit in a sale off Very, it was around

£60. Turns out, I'm not too good at assembling furniture...it wobbles side to side :S But it does the job for now!