Nails Inc November - Arlington Street

Purple shimmer  

For the last day of a somewhat sporadic Nails Inc November I've chosen something with a hint of glitter.

Arlington Street is a gorgeous purple shimmer with lots of blue and pink micro-glitter.  In the bottle there's a hint of duo-chrome but as you can see nothing that shows in my pics!

Application was ok, swatches are 3 coats and I do still have a couple of baldish patches.

Again I think this might've been a QVC exclusive but from a bottle comparison it looks to be very similar, if not a dupe of, Franklin's Row.

Vintage Varnish - Sparkle & Fade Black glitter

Black creme with sparse fine glitter  

More Sparkle & Fade...

This polish is a nicely opaque black creme with fine, flakie silver glitter.  The glitter isn't massively obvious but does add a little interest to an otherwise regular black creme.

Swatch shown is 2 coats, no topcoat

Revlon Colorstay - French Roast

Brown creme with fine coloured glitter

Here's another of the Revlon Colorstay polishes, this time the mildly unusual French Roast

Bottle close-up

It's a dark rich brown and unusually has a fine copper, pink and blue micro-glitter scattered throughout.

To me that's an unusual combination of glittery stuff to find in a brown creme, but it works and lifts the colour out of the ordinary.


Unfortunately given the terrible Spring we're having in the UK (coldest in 50 years they're saying!) there wasn't any sun when I took these pics , so you can't see much of the glitter but it's there.

Formula was good and application pretty good, even with the wide(ish) brush.

Swatch shown is 2 coats with no top coat and it's nice and shiny.

Models Own Beetlejuice S/S 2012 - Tropical Sun

Peach shimmer with gold shimmer and silver glitter

The last of the Spring/Summer 2012 Beetlejuice colours is Tropical Sun

Tropical Sun is a peach with masses of gold micro shimmer and some slightly unexpected fine silver glitter, best seen in the 4th swatch pic.

Again the swatch is 3 coats with no top coat.

I think this one will look gorgeous on toes or with a bit of a tan (fake or otherwise!)

This one is definitely the least duochrome

Overall I'm very happy with these new colours.  They're suitably summery colours to reflect that it's a Spring/Summer collection.  They're still not massively opaque but they're pretty fast drying and for me all the colours are worth the time to do 3 coats.  I haven't done a wear test yet, will report back if the wear is extreme, bad or good!

What do you think of the collection, will you be making a home for them?

George - Jester

Red sparkly jelly 

A lovely sparkly red quick dry jelly from supermarket brand George at Asda.

Jester (46) is a pinky red jelly which is packed with a fine microglitter in what looks like gold and pink.

As this is a jelly it never reaches opacity but it's still yummy.

Swatch shown is 3 coats, no top coat.

George Quick Dry polishes are pretty dinky at only 5ml but are also cheap at £2, from your local Asda of course.