Review: Beyond the Nail Mermaid Tail and Peppy Leopard!

Alrighty, swatchy-swatch time! The lovely ladies over at Beyond the Nail were kind enough to send me some polishes to review and were even patient enough for me to get around to actually doing said swatches. They must know me well as both Mermaid Tail and Peppy Leopard were both very sparkly, which is about all I need from a polish. Let's take a look, shall we?

First up, let's take a look at Peppy Leopard, a mix of micro silver and purple glitter, accented with pink matte hexes. I started by applying two coats of American Apparel Neon Violet, then added Peppy Leopard as a glitter gradient. This is one of those glitters that looks best as a gradient. It does build up to full coverage well enough but you need quite a dark polish to contrast with the lighter micro glitter. I do like the matte glitter though. Very leopard-like.

Second, we have the very awesome Mermaid Tail, a mix of green, teal, blue and purple glitter with a hint of pink shimmer. Love this not only because it's all holo and sparkly, but also because it's nice and full coverage. Here, I started with two coats of each coloured polish, added a coat of Seche Vite, waited for all that to dry then added my Nail Vinyl Lightning Bolts. I added two thin coats of Mermaid Tail over the top and bam, sparkly lightning bolts. I really like polishes that just use the one size of glitter, especially when that builds up consistency so nicely.

The Verdict: Both Mermaid Tail and Peppy Leopard are really nice polishes. Mermaid Tail probably wins for me, because of the sparklies, but both are good. You can find these polishes here.

These items were sent to me for my honest review. All opinions are my own.

Review: Sephora X Outburst

As you can imagine, I was pretty excited when the new Sephora X polishes came out. Not only were there a million of them, but I could go see them in person, circling the huge stand and singling out my prey. I'm not the most happy that the good ones are FIFTEEN dollars each but what am I going to do, not buy any?? That's silly. I have few now but my favourite so far as to be the incredibly Outburst. LOOK AT IT:

All the ILNP Ultrachromes! Like Shiny Beetles!

Guess what guys, it's not glitter today! Instead, I have the incredibly amazing ILNP Ultrachrome polishes to show you! I saw a picture of these on the ILNP site and gasped out loud when I saw the colour shift. I totally didn't sit for an hour at work, refreshing the page when the preorders went up. That would be silly. I was so excited when they arrived as they looked as amazing in the bottle as they did on the site. I swatched each polish over black, took the photos, but no matter what I tried, I couldn't get the finish to a place where I was satisfied. I'm sure it's something about the way I was applying it, but there would be little bumps or inconsistencies in the finish and it was annoying. So I didn't post them. I gave them another shot in a taped mani and YES THIS IS BETTER LOOK:

Pink Mega-Sparkly Nails!

It's hardly a secret how much I love sparklies. If it were at all practical, I would make my middle name Sparkly. Laura Sparkly Tucker. That does have a nice ring to it. Anyway, this adoration of all the sparklies means just about my favourite thing ever is dazzle glitter . It's like a bunch of tiny pieces of glitter were smushed together into a larger piece. And oh, so sparklies. I've done red and silver manis using this glitter before so that's the perfect excuse to use the pink. That makes sense, right?

Polish All the Nails

Search This Blog