Hello beauties! Today I have a post that I never thought I'd be writing. For a very long time I had been adamant that I didn't like Barry M nail polishes despite everybody raving about them. Because of that, I don't actually have very many of them but recently GlamLifeGuru mentioned that when she uses their Gelly formulation , she leaves her nails for about five minutes before applying a second coat and so, I decided to give them another go, heeding her advice. Obviously, it worked.
Regular Formulation
Barry M Nail Paints in (L-R) Lemon Ice Cream (available here), Lime Green (available here) and Blue Moon (available here) - £2.99
I can't find Lime Green on the Superdrug website, I'm not sure if that means it's been discontinued or what but you can still get it on Amazon, so no biggy. Also Blue Moon is called Pale Blue on the website.
These regular formulations I wrote off as being too thick, but very sheer meaning that you have to build colour up with a lot of coats, which then makes them very easy to smudge and take ages to dry. However, after watching that GlamLifeGuru video I decided that, despite the fact that she was talking about the Gelly formulations, I'd try it out with these seeing as they're such beautiful colours and they're just going to waste. So, I did one coat, left to dry for (probably more than) five minutes and then did a second. I found that this really helped with the way they dried and actually I don't think they're as thick and sheer as I originally did. I needed three coats of Lemon Ice Cream to get bottle colour and I haven't re-tried the other two, but I'd imagine it's the same. The thing I'm most impressed about though is how long they last on the nails. I used a crappy top coat which came in one of those huge kits of nail polish and, they've lasted better than any of my other nail polishes!
Magnetic Formulation
Barry M Magnetic Nail Paint in Neptune Sea (available here) and Cosmic Glow (available here) - £4.99
I have to say, I'm really not a huge fan of these. Mainly because I don't like the finish. It's quite grainy and textured and I just really don't like my nails to look like that. It's also a sort of metallic finish which I'm not a huge fan of. As for the actual magnetic pattern thing, I don't like the pattern of the wavy magnet on the right. Mainly because my nails are quite narrow, so it basically just looks like I messed up my nail varnish. The diagonal stripes one, I do think looks quite nice. However, these aren't nail polishes that I reach for very often or will probably ever reach for in the future.
Nail Effects Formulation
Barry M Nail Effects Nail Paint Black Croc - £3.99 available here
I have only ever tried two of these type of 'shatter' effect nail polishes. The other one was from ASDA's makeup range and it was crap. So, when I got this free for buying two other Barry M products, I wasn't expecting much. However, it's (obviously) a lot better than the ASDA one and does give a nice croc effect. However, it's still not something I'd reach for often, only really when I wanted a change.
Unfortunately, due to my past dislike of these nail varnishes, those are the only ones I currently own. However, Superdrug are currently doing 3 for 2 on all nail products in store, so I think I'll have to pick up some new colours and I'll definitely be trying out their much raved about Gelly formulation.
I hope you've enjoyed this post, I'm considering turning this 'Change o' Heart' thing into a series considering that there are quite a few products (almost all of the products in my Disappointing Products post, link here) which although I initially disliked, have found a use for in my routine. So perhaps there will be more posts like this to come!
Have a fabulous day,
Nikki x
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