This is a swatch of OPI Muir Muir On The Wall, from the San Francisco collection of Autumn 2013. The final effect of this polish is of an auburn brown with bronze shimmer. In make-up though, it’s a copper/bronze shimmer in a sheer black base. It is supposed to be, according to OPI, a plum […] Read more
Today’s swatch is of Nella Milano Chantilly Cream. I have been reviewing one Nella Milano polish a week for seven months now. But this is the final one of the 32 coloured polishes. Chantilly Cream is a pure white, with good coverage. I needed two coats for full opacity and it painted on beautifully smoothly. […] Read more
Today I’m wearing Nella Milano Raspberry Razzle. It’s my favourite Nella Milano pink. It’s a deep, rosy pink. Some raspberry polishes are more red. I classify Barry M Raspberry, for example, as a red. But Raspberry Razzle definitely sits in the pinks. It’s perfect at two coats and looks shiny and gorgeous. It’s such a […] Read more
This is a swatch of OPI OPI … Eurso Euro. It comes from the Euro Centrale collection, from Spring 2013. It’s a deep blue. But it’s at the “about-to-become-purple” end of the blue spectrum. It’s not a dark blue like navy, but it has a rich, deep colour to it. It’s beautiful and I absolutely […] Read more
Today’s swatch is of Nella Milano Raven Wing. It is a jet black creme that is perfect in two coats. If you have short nails and paint a thick coat, then it’s possibly even a one-coater. It’s my new favourite black nail polish. Previously, I used to love W7 Black, and thought it was pretty […] Read more
Nella Milano Vintage Violet is my Nella Milano nail polish swatch this time around. It’s a bright purple, in the middle of the purple range. It’s a very cheery colour, probably not very seasonally appropriate – unless you’re in the southern hemisphere – but I’m rarely one to stick to the “right” colours for the […] Read more
Nella Milano Cabaret Charm is this week’s Nella Milano swatch. It’s a medium red with a very slight hint towards pink. It certainly looks slightly pink-leaning on the first coat, although in most artificial lighting it just looks red. I used two coats, which both dried quickly and had a lovely high shine. This is […] Read more
Today I have a swatch of Nella Milano Pinky Ponk. What a fab name! I love it! It’s quite a difficult shade of pink to describe. It’s sort of salmon-leaning. I didn’t think I would like it, but I really love it. I think I’ve loved al the Nella Milano pinks. If I didn’t have […] Read more
Yesterday I reviewed Modern Craftsman, and today I’m wearing another polish from the same collection, SpaRitual Eye For Detail. It is a pearlescent, shimmery pale gold colour. The official SpaRitual information describes it as a cream colour. But I think it has too much sparkle and glow to be considered a cream. It is definitely […] Read more
Today I’m wearing SpaRitual Modern Craftsman, which comes from the new Pause collection for autumn 2015. It is a lovely regal purple colour, with red micro glitters. This manicure was perfect in two coats, but definitely needs a top coat to smooth out the glitters. I used just one top coat and although it felt […] Read more