Leighton Denny - Not Tonight

Dark chocolate brown creme

Not Tonight is a deep, very deep chocolate brown creme.  It's so deep it looks almost black in these pictures!  And apologies for the big bubble on my middle nail.

The Leighton Denny site describes it as a rich, deep charcoal brown

Application was good, swatch shown is 2 coats with no top coat.

Leighton Denny - Sophisticated

Cool toned pink creme with blue secret shimmer

Close up to show the secret shimmer

Sophisticated is a slightly muted cool toned pink creme with a silvery blue secret shimmer.  The pink here almost leans lilac.

And according to the Leighton Denny site it's a pale purple creme


Swatch shown is 2 coats, with no top coat but the finish is v. shiny

Fantastic formula on this one.

Andrea Fulerton - Matthew

Pale nude shimmer with pink flash

Eeek - this polish does not work with my skintone and was a bit of a mare to apply and looks patchy in some of the pics.  That makes it a total fail for me.

Matthew from Andrea Fulerton is a nude shimmer with a mild pink  flash.

Application was mildy tricky and streaky.  Swatch shown is 3 coats and you can still see some VNL.

Yuk.

W7 - Metallic Saturn

Green/olive metallic shimmer

I featured the other W7 Metallics earlier this year but somehow this one missed out.  Although part of the same collection this one isn't anything like as duochrome as the others.  You can just see a hint of duochrome in the first pic

Instead Metallic Saturn is a gorgeous, lit from within, green/olive/gold metallic shimmer

Application was good, swatch is only 2 coats with no top coat.  And look how shiny it is?!

Barry M - Turquoise

Turquoise creme

Sorry for the hiatus, I scheduled posts for while I was away in Madrid for a week (no polish shopping sadly) but then was on a weeks work project and then developed a horrible lurgy which is still hanging on...

Working my way through my extensive back stash of swatch pics as my nails are still pretty stubby after growing out a few low nail bed splits.

Barry M Turquoise is a actually more of a bright blue with a hint of turquoise rather than a true turquoise which to me should lean a little more green.

Swatch shown is 2 coats with no top coat.  Application was good.

Sally Hansen - Delphinium

Smokey lilac creme   

Most people would probably think of Delphiniums as blue and I think that is the more common colour but the colour range of the flowers can go all the way to this subtle lilac.

Swatch shown is 2 coats, no top coat.  The formula was ok but unfortunately for me and my tiny nails the Sally Hansen polish has a big fat/flat brush - I just about made it work but grrrgghhh....

GOSH - Prima Donna

Orange/rust with pink shimmer   

The last of my GOSH Special Editions (I think there was also a dusky green in this collection but it was sold out)

Swatch shown is 2 coats with no top coat and  great application.

Surprised that this actually looks ok with my skintone

Again a slightly unusual colour - well done to GOSH for doing something a bit different with these Special Editions.