Barry M Nail Gelly's. Top L-R: Grapefruit, Blue Grape, Lychee. Bottom L-R: Greenberry and Mango. £3.99 each.
Hello beauties! Happy New Year, I hope you had a great 2013 and that your 2014 will be even better!
Today I want to review the Gelly formula of Barry M's nail polishes. I know these are super popular in the blogging world but I wanted to get my 2 cents out there (and I already had pictures taken).
Firstly, there is a pretty great colour selection, ranging from dark wintery colours, pastel spring colours and bright summer colours. Obviously the selection isn't as good as the regular line, but it's still quite diverse.
The formula of these nail polishes is much thicker than the regular line, as you would expect from a gel polish, and they do take a while to dry. Actually, I would recommend leaving as long as five minutes between each coat to avoid messing the polish up (a tip I learnt from glamlifeguru).
However, if you're worried that this will make painting your nails take an unbearable amount of time, these polishes are opaque, bottle colour in two coats so you needn't worry.
They claim that you don't need a top coat with these as they'll be shiny enough by themselves, and although that's true about the shine I would recommend putting some kind of top coat on to prolong the wear. These polishes last nicely on the nails but they'll still chip within a couple of days if you don't put something on top. If I wear one of these gelly's with Seche Vite on top, they last without chipping for longer than any other drugstore nail polish I have (aside from maybe Essie).
All in all, I really like these polishes and I think they live up to their hype. My only bug bear with them is that they do take a little longer to dry. But seeing as they last so long, they come in great colours and they're so inexpensive, I can overlook that. Plus, Superdrug often do 3 for 2 deals on these so look out for that!
Total score: 4/5
I hope this review was in some way helpful and I'll hopefully be back with more posts soon.
Have a fabulous day,
Nikki x
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