Cirque Polishes - OMG

So whilst writing my Blog the other day and linking to Rainbow Connection, something caught my eye! Cirque polishes! For Sale! I've had my eye on these little babies for a while, and only found one site, Covet that was selling them in the UK for £15.

Well rainbow connection are selling these babies for £9.50 and it's £1 shipping if your order is over £20. Easily achieved when purchasing these polishes, oh go on then, I'll have to order as least three! Other wise I'd have to pay £3.50 and that could be put towards another bottle. Makes sense right?

This is the first one I've used called "Never Nude', a champagne nude with a rainbow holographic finish, most of these polishes I bought are linear holo's, can't get enough. This was bought specifically with the intension of doing this holo gradient from Chalkboard Nails.  

Obviously I needed to buy the darker polish called 'Fascination Street' in order to do the manicure and these other polishes fell in the basket too!

The boxes give them a little something else don't you think?

I shall get round to swatching the rest, the colours are so amazing on these polishes, it's not JUST the colours it's the depth and effect of the holo too.

Other news! As you can see from my last few posts I've been going polish crazy and this is only the tip of the iceberg, I haven't revealed the complete story of my polish purchases of late. I blame that Nail Polish Group on facebook, I may need to go cold turkey. People keep posting about polishes that previously was unaware of, and know I am, I need them.

So my Destash Swap buddy has invited the Group to an untrieds challenge. Total up your untried polishes and use as many of these as you can during the rest of the month. Also this is to encourage you to not buy new polishes. Really should be using the polishes I have before buying more. So no more polish purchases... for his month at least. What date is it?

Born Pretty Holo Polish

I have been searching for a Holo Polish similar to OPI's 'Original' from their first designer range and came across these Born Pretty polishes on eBay. 

This was exactly what I was looking for, and at the great price of £3.78 with free P&P all the way from Japan. I didn't realise until the polish came that it was a 6ml bottle. But that was my fault for not reading the description properly, I was probably distracted by the shiny things!

Any-hoo proper pleased with this polish, two coats and it looks marvellous. What is the likely hood of me getting though the 100's of ml of polish I already possess anyways! 

Born Pretty have an online store with all sorts of nail gubbins! Including all sorts of Holo Polishes in different colours, however they seem a little more expensive on the site than on eBay, so shop around.

Urban Outfitters W.I.P Polishes

Since last weeks manicure I've been scouring the Internet for Holographic OPI polishes from their Designer Series. Their most recent collection is somewhat lacking in the colour or holographic effects I so desire and eBay have but a few polishes that are listed, in the region of £18. Much, much more that I have ever spent on one single polish.

So at the weekend I went into Manchester and had a mooch round Urban Outfitters and their polish display caught my eye. Two polishes for a tenner and these two really stood out. The left is called 'Black Holo' and was exactly what I was looking for. A gorgeous dark grey polish, I would say, with a gorgeous linear holographic effect.

You can see it here, both in the bottle and on the nail, it loses nothing once painted, and this was one coat! Day two and so far no chips, and I've even washed the pots! I topped it off with a Color Club quick dry Top Coat and was ready to go.

The other polish I picked up is a very, very fine beaded polish called 'Blue Beaded'. I'm not usually a fan of these type of polishes, but my friend pointed it out saying it looks like static TV in a bottle.

The polish has a clear base with tiny white and blue beads. The picture below shows two coats and you really don't need a base coat to cover the nail with this polish. It's a little textured once painted on as you'd expect, and although it has no glitter, it gives off a real glisten. The swatch here is without Top Coat, so I can't wait to wear this polish next to see how the Top Coat adds to the effect. They had this polish in light purple and a grey also, but the blue really stood out the most.

P.S. The Black Holo wasn't included in the 2 for £10 deal, so I ended up paying £12 for the holographic polish and £6 for the Beaded one.