Barry and his M had a little Baby Pink

BARRY M – Baby Pink

Hi Goddesses

Baby Pink is not a colour I would ever wear in real life.  I am just not *that* kind of girl.  I tend to avoid super girlie stuff and pukey pastels, so this is quite a hard one for me to evaluate for you.

Baby Pink is a pastel pink, but built on a peachy cream base rather than a white base, which reduces the starkness, and makes the colour more appealing.  Like most of the other pastels, this needed 3 coats, but as you might be able to see, it’s still a bit streaky.

This is super girlie on the nail as you would expect, and also subtle.  There is nothing in your face about this colour, and you’ll either love it or loathe it for that very reason.  I do like the fact it has some peachy warmth though, and a little more than you can detect in the photos.

For the glittering, we have –

Thumb – CG Snow Globe

Index – CG White Cap

Middle – SH Rockstar Pink

Ring – SH – Strobe Light

Little – NYX Super Funk

I love how a pink base allows the orangey warmth of Snow Globe through – I think this is a really pretty combination.

I also like how Strobe Light dances with this pink – subtle, with a dash of bling.

Enjoy J  xx

J

Top Tip – if you’re ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give you plenty of contrasts and compares.

Getting Girlie with Barry, his M, and his pale pinks

BARRY M – Pale Pink Skittle

Hi Goddesses

Today I have for you 3 pale pinks from Barry and his M – Baby Pink, Bright Pink and Strawberry Ice Cream.  Whilst I don’t really like this look on me, I am quite taken with this mani – there’s something about the sugary simplicity of it that just makes me smile J

Baby Pink is on the middle finger – a super girlie pastel built on a peachy (rather than white) base.  This needed 3 coats.

On the thumb and pinkie we have Bright Pink, which is more of a Bright Pale Pink. This is your classic Barbie pink – sweet, pale but intense.   This only needed 2 coats.

On the index and ring fingers is Strawberry Ice Cream.  This is very similar to Baby Pink, but probably one tone deeper.  Again, it has a cream rather than white base, which makes it more palatable.  Personally, I think real-life strawberry ice cream is darker than this – well, it always has been in the ice cream parlours I’ve bought it at!

For a bit of fun I had another dance with Konad the Barbarian and this went a LITTLE better.  Following advice, I filed my plonker a bit, and this certainly helped.  The hindrance this time was that I used Barry M Silver Foil as my stamping polish and it dried *ridiculously* fast.  Whilst it did transfer perfectly to the stamp every time, I only got it onto the nail half the time!  There really was NO time at all to look at the plonker, check you had the pattern and decide where to plonk.  So, if you’re going to use Silver Foil for stamping it’s dab, swipe, plonk, plonk.  Preferably within 0.7 seconds.

So there you go – that’s Barry’s sugary pinks.

Enjoy J  xx

J

Top Tip – if you’re ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give you plenty of contrasts and compares.