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?!

W7 - The Fab Four Elegant Collection Minis - Fuchsia

Fuchsia pink shimmer with micro sparkles  

Fuchsia is a mid/dark fuchsia with micro sparkles that are really only visible in sunlight

Swatch is 3 coats with no top coat.  It's pretty but nothing too exciting.

This is another TK Maxx bargain, I think this was £4 for a collection of 4 mini polishes.  And as you can see the W7 mini bottles are the same as OPI's minis.

Rest of the collection to follow...

W7 - Metallic Jupiter

Dark plum foil duochrome   

The last of my W7 metallics - Metallic Jupiter

Jupiter is a return to the foily metallic finish from W7.  

Jupiter is a dark plum with a hint of copper duochrome

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

I also tried this one out with a pinky gold crackle from P2

Without topcoat

With a coat of Seche Vite

I'm not really a fan of crackle but this one intrigued me with its mixture of pinky lilac base and gold foily shimmer.  It definitely looks better with the Seche Vite in my view!

W7 - Metalllic Venus

Purple/plum shimmer   

Venus is another of the W7 Metallics but this time there's no foil in sight. There is still a hint of duochrome, though not massively visible in my pics I'm afraid.

Venus is a shimmery purple/plum colour with a darker plum and brown/copper duochrome that's much more visible in the bottle.

Application was good, swatches shown are 2 coats, no top coat.

They might not be super innovative colours but I do think W7 make some great polishes for their price point.

W7 - Metallic Mercury

Plum foily duochrome   

Metallic Mercury is one of a number of W7 polishes I picked up in TK Maxx last year for a bargain price.  TK Maxx seemed to get a lot more nail polish in last year, long may it continue!

Metallic Mercury is a warm blackened plum foil with a hint of greeny gold duochrome.  The duochrome isn't super obvious though.

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

IIRC this is similar but not a total dupe to one of the Orly FX collection.

W7 Pewter

The last of my small but very impressive collection of W7's

This is Pewter


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Pewter is a mid grey shimmer with fine sparkles
Great application with this polish, it was almost a one-coat-wonder.
This is 2 coats + top coat

Overall I've been very impressed with my W7's - for a cheap polish you get a large amount of good quality polish - result!

W7 Cerise Pink

Another old swatch of a W7


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This is Cerise Pink, a sheer raspberry with gold microglitter

Unfortunately a little too sheer - this is 4 coats and I still have VNL. Shame because it's very pretty

Of course I should have layered it over a similar colour - if you want to see that head over to Nikki's blog where she helpfully shows you Cerise Pink layered over nails inc Hampstead Heath

W7 - Blue Lagoon

Another W7 for you gals - I found the old photos I took, no mean feat as I have over 2000 images (multiples of each colour) in my unsorted swatches folder - eeek!

Boy this one's a beaut!


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Blue Lagoon is a wonderful blurple with silver glitter

Perfect coverage in  2 coats, no topcoat.  Again I'm very impressed with the quality and coverage of a pretty cheap polish - nice!

W7 - Fluorescent Blue (that isn't)

I picked this up on a recent trip to TJ Hughes (a discount retailer in the UK) - I'd tried some W7 before (which I haven't posted yet - bad blogger) and the colour intrigued me.

W7 are a low cost cosmetics brand that I've only seen in discount cosmetics & perfume places. They make a full range of cosmetics but of course I've only bought nail polish! I thimk the price was around £3, maybe less

The bottles are a good size and pretty dupey for OPI bottles.





I didn't realise till I logged the swatch in my text file that it was called Fluorescent Blue - it's not fluorescent, not even a little bit. In my book it's a
sky blue pearl.

This is 3 coats, no topcoat as usual and surprisingly brushstroke free.

I must admit I like it a lot more on the nail than in the bottle - what do you lovely ladies think?