Review: Butter London Scuppered

My first encounter with Butter London with Knackered wasn't the greatest. Application was incredibly difficult and just didn't look right. I thought it deserved another chance though, mostly because Scuppered looks so amazing in the bottle. I don't think "bespoke" nail polish is actually a think, even though it claims to be, but whatever, pretty polish. Man, I'm all over the shop today with this intro but can't be bothered rewriting it.

Scuppered is a beautiful bronze sparkly foil polish with green glitter and pink sparkles. I certainly don't have anything else like this in my collection. Application was good - you could get away with two coats but I prefer three. Because I can't just do a normal mani, I added a fancy french with Nicole by OPI Razzle Dazzle. Perfect name for a black! Anyway, this isn't too hard to do, just cut a triangle out of a piece of tape, stick it on your palm first then make sure it's stuck down evenly on your nail. If there are bubbly bits, you'll get seepage (that was not a good word to use) like on my middle finger. If you're impatient like me, add a coat of Seche Vite before you tape to make it dry faster.

The Verdict: I really like Scuppered and am now fully on board with Butter London. I'm still bitter about Knackered but I'll get over it, one day. Apologies for the weird colouring here, I messed up my white balance. The polish colour is accurate, just not my fingers.

Review: Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles is Accurately Named

It's amazing what you can find when you wander around at night. My favourite time to go shopping is ridiculously late and I'm extra happy when it pays off. I've been looking for Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles for a while now at that couldn't be more up my alley if it tried. I finally managed to find it in a Shoppers last night and it really does live up to its name. A Million Sparkles is a predominately blue glitter that has an amazing ability to look like a foil after a couple of coats. Combine that with gold, silver and pink bar glitter and you have a winner. It's seriously so sparkly I got distracted from what I was saying at lunch today. Application is decent but you really need four coats to get completely opaque coverage. That's ok, glitter dries fast. It's a little rough too but nothing Seche Vite can't fix. The Verdict: Yay glitter! If, like me, you like sparklies to the point where it's the biggest tag on y

I'm a Proper Mermaid This Time Beeeeaches

Ermerger guys, I don't have any glitter on me! Well, I do, just on my nails. I always have glitter on me. And cat fluff. It's funny how often my bf comes home with glitter in his beard. That means it's been there all day... Anyway, new nail vinyls mean something a bit different. I swear I'm not actually obsessed with mermaids, it just seems like it... Anyway, again, shall we?

Overlaid Red, Black and White Gradient Nails!

Ever since I did this mani recently I've been wanting to do a better version. The colours seemed like they would work together but it just didn't turn out how I wanted. I wanted to try again and decided to learn from my original mistakes. For example, make sure you use a super opaque creme polish on your top layer, don't bother with horizontal stripes and using thicker lines looks cool too.

Polish All the Nails

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