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Layla Polishes Review/Swatches

Hey everyone! Today I have a selection of Layla polishes from Look Fantastic and Sally Magpies to show you, there's another holo polish, a mirror effect polish, some ceramic effect polishes and a soft touch effect polish (which I think is my new all-time favourite polish). I hope you like it! Full review will be after the jump


First up is N.33 Metallic Blue*, the polishes dont have names on the bottles so I'm using the ones from Look Fantastic's website, hopefully they're all correct! As the name suggests, this is a dark metallic blue. I'm not usually a fan of dark blues, but I've found myself using this quite a bit recently. I used it here, and I have a design coming up using it too. This was 2 coats with no top coat

Layla - N.33 Ceramic Effect 'Metallic Blue'
Layla - N.33 Ceramic Effect 'Metallic Blue'
Next up is Red Hot* a mirror effect polish. I swatched this at night so unfortunately I'm not going to be able to give a great review of the effect in sunlight, but from what I've seen this is pretty impressive. This was 1 coat with no topcoat and it's ridiculously opaque as you can see

Layla Mirror Effect - Red Hot
Layla Mirror Effect - Red Hot
Next is N.73* (I cant seem to find a name), which is a gorgeous turquoise blue, this was 2 coats with no topcoat

Layla Ceramic Effect N.73
Layla Ceramic Effect N.73
Next up is another Ceramic Effect polish, this time N.11*, a brown with a very faint pink shimmer to it, which unfortunately doesn't show in the pictures. This was 3 coats but I could have easily got away with 2

Layla Ceramic Effect N.11
Layla Ceramic Effect N.11
Next is one of the Holographic Range, N.13 Purple Illusion*. This was 2 coats with 1 coat of top coat as it dried matte

Layla Holographic Polish N.13 Purple Illusion
Layla Holographic Polish N.13 Purple Illusion
Finally is my absolute favourite polish of the lot, a softouch effect polish called Marshmallow Twinkle*. This was 2 coats but 1 would easily have been fine, and whilst it looks textured it's true to the name and is indeed soft to touch

Layla Softouch Effect - Marshmallow Twinkle
Layla Softouch Effect - Marshmallow Twinkle
And that's the lot! What do you think? Let me know in the comments
If you have time I would also appreciate it so so much if you could vote for me for 'best new beauty blog' in the Cosmopolitan Blog awards here
Alice

*some of the products in this post were provided to me for review but all opinions are entirely my own and were not influenced in any way

Holographic Geometric

Hey everyone! Today's post is my first ever holographic polish, and I absolutely love it. I intended to post these a week ago for Digital Dozen Does Tape Manis, which I completely forgot about and therefore missed. But I promised the lovely ladies that I would do a post, and so I did, I just put off writing it for a week. 


The holographic polish is Layla - Red Taboo*, from the wonderful Sally Magpie's, the blue is Barry M - Blueberry and the green is Barry M - Key Lime, all topped off with a coat of Seche Vite*


Here are some pictures of Red Taboo alone:


These lightbox pictures really don't do this polish justice. It's AMAZING, and I definitely feel I've been missing out on the holo front. 


What do you think? Let me know in the comments!
If you haven't already I'd love it if you could vote for me for 'best new beauty blog' in the Cosmopolitan blog awards 2013, you can do so here
Alice

*Some of the products in this post were provided to me for review but all opinions are entirely my own