It feels like I haven’t banged out a proper nail post for a long, long time!
The blogging world has quite rightly gone stir-crazy over the Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine Nail Paints. Not only is the range of colours fantastic, but they’re bright, cheap and give a super-glossy gel-like finish.
Now, me being a huuuuge Barry M fan, I had to raid Boots and pick up a few bottles. I walked out with a nice mixture including Lychee, Greenberry, Pomegranate and Blueberry. We’re all amazed at the lasting power of Barry M’s Original Nail Paints, but sadly I was a little disappointed with these. I painted my nails the night before a house party, only to arrive with chips all over my nails!
On one of my wanders through the city centre, I happened to drift into American Apparel. I tend not buy clothes from there as they’re usually pretty basic, expensive and the colourful rainbow displays make everything look better than it actually is. A bit like during wintry nights, you have those people selling multi-colour, flashing novelties. Altogether it looks cool, but if you buy one it just looks a bit meh by itself.
I find it difficult wearing just one nail polish on a hand as I have far too many polishes, I usually add 2 or 3 colours onto the same hand. In this case, I went with the one and added some Camden Lock glitter from the Nails INC Graffiti range, it’s almost like they were made for each other.
American Apparel Sheer Nail Lacquer in Summerland Beach is a peachy colour with a dash of rose giving it a strawberry milkshake appearance, the formulation is quite runny, but that makes it super easy to apply in thin coats. I have to say that it’s also quite sheer so I needed to apply three coats to attain this look, after the second coat the nail line was still visible, but the third covered it. It dries to a glossy, high shine finish quite similar to Barry M’s Gelly Hi-Shine. The big difference between these two is the longevity, while Barry M chips after a day, American Apparel was still going strong after three days (as shown in these photos!).
Nails INC Graffiti in Camden Lock is an explosion of glitter in a clear polish. The glitter comes in all different sizes, shapes and colours giving it that edgy graffiti look! I find that just one coat gives a great finish and as with the American Apparel, the longevity of this fantastic!
Back to the American Apparel Sheer Nail Polish though, I do believe this is a great alternative to Barry M’s Gelly Hi-shine Nail Paints as the available colours and finish closely resemble each other. The only issue is price, Barry M is priced cheerfully at £3.99 whilst American Apparel looks a bit more daunting at £9. In my opinion though AA beats BM as while it may be 2½ times the price, it does last at least 4 times longer.
Jodie Melissa
April 4, 2013the graffiti nail polish looks amazing!:-)
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Katie
April 4, 2013Love this! xx
Unknown
April 4, 2013In love with this combo! Camden lock is gorgeous. I love glittery nails! Haha
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Carol P.
April 4, 2013Wow this combination looks amazing!
Truly Madly Beauty
April 4, 2013Eeeee nail post! 😀 Oooooh that combo is just so divine I want to eat it! How frickin ace is that glitter?! I think I may have a seizure just from looking at it. You're right about the Barry M's, I love his polishes muchly but the gelly's were chips galore! ILY
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Nicola
April 4, 2013I love this – all the colours together look amazing. I NEED that glitter polish! x
Jessie Xiong
April 4, 2013The top coat is amazing!! Love it 🙂
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April 4, 2013Beautiful nails! I have to buy a special nail polish like that 🙂
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April 4, 2013great ring!
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Anonymous
April 5, 2013Very pretty! I love the glitter! 🙂
Namiko
April 5, 2013beautiful finger lovely nails:D
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April 5, 2013Very pretty, love this 🙂
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Jenny
April 5, 2013I love this so pretty xx
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Imogen
April 5, 2013Absolutely perfect, definitely my style.
Anonymous
April 5, 2013LOVE how you put the polishes together! American Apparel sells a great line of polishes 🙂
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April 5, 2013Great post, love your blog!
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Sami
April 5, 2013Your ring!! Where's it from?! I love it! xx
Anonymous
April 5, 2013This is a really fab combo, love the AA colour. xox
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April 7, 2013gorgeous nails!
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April 7, 2013That is a beautiful combination my dear! I wish I could apply polish as neat as you do! <3
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misselisak
April 15, 2013That ring is just dopeness on 1 million! lol Thanks for reading my blog! I love yours also!
LaaLaa
April 15, 2013Got to pay the price for what you get sometimes. I too can't do the AA shopping, the clothes are too basic and the price tags are ridiculous, how that company has been kept afloat. I've wanted to get a few of their polishes before but never remember when I'm in London. Just love that peachy colour, sometimes colours like that are the only time I feel 'girlie' lol. Beautiful combination xo