April 2021 Favourites

Part of my brain has already moved into May but then there is the part that thinks it's crazy that we are now at the end of April.  With the end of the month comes a new favourites post!  I don't know about you guys but it is nice looking back on some of the things I have played with.  So let's recap April.

  

Nail Art

I've finally gotten around to doing some nail art this month.  Yay!  I actually grabbed quite a few stamping plates from Hit The Bottle so I have been playing around a little.  Definitely a little rusty but I love the manis that I have done this month.  Hopefully May will bring some more nail art from me.

 

Stamping Plates

Like I mentioned before I recently purchased some new plates which means I should have more nail art happening AND more plates to add to my favourites post.  Yay!

Lina Nail Art Supplies Make Your Mark 09

At this stage I am pretty sure that all of the Make Your Mark plates have ended up in my favourites posts.  I do love the designs on these and the 9th plate is no exception.

Image from Lina Nail Art Supplies

Uberchic Beauty Business Chic 02

I will forever be a big fan of Uberchic's stamping plates.  They are just so good!  I love the images on the Business Chic 02 plate.  I'm also pretty sure that their first plate from this range I loved too.

Image from Uberchic Beauty

Indie Polishes

This month again has been filled with all the stunning polishes from our indie girls.  

Emily de Molly January Release

This month I finally got around to swatching the collection that was released back in January.   I love the whole collection but have managed to narrow my favourites down to Hold Me Close, It Never Ends, Raise The Stakes, Steadfast and Ugly Mood.

  

Emily de Molly April 2021 Releases

This month's release from Hayley was also amazing!  So many amazing polishes.  I am going to hate trying to narrow them all down at the end of the year.  But I did manage to narrow this release down a little.  My favourites are Taking Over, Begin At The End, It's Never Enough, Might Be A Scene and Cloud My Vision.

 

Emily de Molly Limited Edition Polishes April 2021

The LE's from this month are definitely very Tracy like polishes.  I love them all!

 

Grace-full Nail Polish Mother's Day 2021 Trio

It's been a little bit since we have had a collection of polishes from Grace-full but OMG!  Does it get any better than this trio?  I think not!

  

Grace-full Nail Polish Skipping Beauty (Polish Pick Up April 2021)

This month's Polish Pick Up shade is definitely another Tracy polish.  It's seriously amazing!

  

That brings us to the end of the favourites for this month.  April has brought us soooo many amazing polishes but based on my swatch racks, May is going to be just as amazing.  Or maybe more.....I guess we will have to wait until May to find out.

April 2020 Favourites

Here we are at the last day of April.  What an interesting month it is has been.  I have officially lost track of days and times - I have to constantly check my calendar to know what it is I am doing.  I am sure I am not the only one that is looking forward to some normalcy but for now I am happy that most people are staying home (if and when they can) to help flatten the curve.  Anyway, before officially moving into May I want to wrap up April (like I do ever other month) with all of the things that I have been loving.

Nail Art

April has been a good month of nail art for me.  Well at least I think it has.  I did go a bit back and forth about the flame mani because I didn't like how the stickers don't lay flat on my nails but I really do like the look of the mani which is why I have included it.
     

Stamping Plates

This month I have been playing with quite a few new stamping plates which has been fun.  I also have some more plates to play with in May which I am also excited about.
     

Uberchic Beauty Business Chic 01 and Simply Organic Stamping Plates

This month Uberchic released two new plates and I am in love with them both.  They are both full of really cool full nail images that there are sooooo many options of ways to use it that it's kinda hard to decide where to begin.

Image from Uberchic Beauty

Image from Uberchic Beauty

What's Up Nails Geo-Radical Stamping Plate

This plate is so cool!  I have never used so many images in one mani before but this plate makes it so easy to do and the result is awesome!  I think this plate also has a really good mix of geometric images.

Image from What's Up Nails

Stamping Polishes

It has been a hot minute since I have played with some new stamping polishes.  I was lucky to be sent a lot of the stamping polishes from What's Up Nails and I am so impressed.  They all stamp beautifully and work over both white and black (although some that are a dark colour don't look the greatest over black).  They also have a great range of both colours and finishes.
     

Indie Polishes

Every month without fail I have Emily de Molly and Grace-full Nail Polish in my indie polish favourites.  Until this month....oh who am I kidding here?  Of course we have Emily de Molly and Grace-full Nail Polish in my favourites for this month.

Emily de Molly April Releases
Really I should be including the full release because I don't love Enjoy The Fall but I do think that this might look really cool with some nail art over it.  Stay tuned for that at some point.  I do LOVE the rest of this month's releases though.  So awesome!

Grace-full Nail Polish Beauty Of The Sea (Polish Pick Up April 2020)
Ok so this polish is seriously amazing and I am totally in love.  It's definitely a very "me" polish.

Grace-full Nail Polish Drag Queen Collection
This month Grace-full teamed up with MckFresh Nail Attire to create the Drag Queen Collection.  I haven't tried the MckFresh polishes so I won't comment on those but there were definitely a couple of favourites from Grace-full - It's Not Personal It's Drag and I Need An Adult.

It's only a small favourites post this month.  Hopefully that will help me come December when I try and narrow down my favourites for the year.

April 2019 Favourites

I don't know about you but April has well and truly flown by!  I feel like we have only had one week but clearly that is not the case.  I think it's the fact we had school holidays and Easter this month that has made it feel like it's gone so quickly.  I always think that this first half of the month goes slowly but this year is definitely proving my very wrong!  Anyway, I'm starting to babble here.  Let's take a look at all of the things that I have loved this month.

Nail Art

I'm both embarrassed and shocked to say that I have done no nail art this whole entire month.  I did do one nail art post (which was swatches and a review of Uberchic's Far East 01 stamping plate) but the manis in that were ones that I actually did in 2016 and 2017.  Oops.  I also don't count swatching stamping polishes as nail art either.  I'll definitely have to dust of the nail art skills for next month.
  

Mainstream Polishes

Aside from my untried polishes I haven't actually played with any mainstream polishes.  I do have the new China Glaze collection on it's way to me so that will be on my blog next month.  Woohoo!
   

Indie Polishes

Ok, now I have some favourites to actually discuss!  Emily de Molly, Grace-full Nail Polish and Hit The Bottle always come through with the goods for me.
   

Emily de Molly LE146

I swatched the four limited edition polishes from March and I fell in love with LE146.  It is the reason I purchased the limited edition polishes and it didn't disappoint me at all.

Emily de Molly May 2019 Releases
I am always a sucker for EdM releases each month and May's release is no exception.  There are so many gorgeous polishes.  I have managed to narrow down my favourites to five *pats self on back* but I really could put more in my favourites.  My favourites are City Of Light, Out Cold, Speculation, Well Suited and The Outsider.

Grace-full Nail Polish April Polish Pick Up
Monet Changes Everything was this month's Polish Pick Up release and it is absolutely stunning.  Hopefully you all managed to get your hands on a bottle.
   

Grace-full Nail Polish Shimmer And Shine Collection
The Shimmer And Shine Collection is gorgeous!  I really could put the whole collection into this post but I'm being tough.  I honestly need to really cut down my favourites or at the end of the real I'm going to have a million polishes in my end of year favourites.  So my absolute favourites are Supercalifrag, Shim Shim Sher-ee, Spoonful Of Sugar, The Perfect Nanny, and Sister Suffragette.

Hit The Bottle Magenta At Your Own Risk 2.0 Stamping Polish
I probably should have put this stamping polish earlier in this post (ie under the nail art section) but it's still an indie polish and it is awesome so it can go in the indie polish section.

Basically this month's favourites post is really a "Emily de Molly and Grace-full Nail Polish favourites from April 2019.  I'm not mad about that.  They always bring out some amazing stuff.  Next month I will definitely have some new nail art....well I hope.  I definitely will be a little rusty.

 

April 2018 Favourites

Usually I start off my monthly favourites posts with some comment about how the past month has gone really quickly and how I can't believe that it's time for monthly favourites again.  Well this month is a little different.  April hasn't gone by really quickly, but it also hasn't gone by slowly either.  I think April has gone by at a good pace.  Hopefully the rest of the year goes by at a nice pace and not too quickly.  Anyway, today I have my favourite things that I have been loving this month.

Nail Art

This month has been a good month for me and nail art.  Well at least I think so.   I have done quite a lot of nail art (probably because I haven't been swatching as many polishes and have been playing a lot with stamping plates instead).  I definitely struggled to narrow down my favourites again.
 

Stamping Plates 

As I mentioned, I have played with quite a few stamping plates over this past month and there have been a couple of stand outs for me.
 

Lina Nail Art Supplies Totally Negative 02

Full sized images are always my favourite type of images to use and negative space images always make for great manis.  I loved the first plate in this series and I love this one just as much.
 

Image from Lina Nail Art Supplies

Uberchic Beauty Collection 25

I really like Uberchic's collections.  They are always full of fantastic images and Collection 25 is no exception.  You know a plate is good when you struggle to decide what to use first and have a bunch of mani ideas for other images.  That is me with these plates (particularly 25-02 and 25-03).
 

Image from Uberchic

Indie Polishes 

Oh indie polishes have stolen my heart again this month.   Although come to think of it, I don't think I have played with any new mainstream polishes in April.  How interesting.  Anyway, so many stunning indie polishes in April!
 

Emily de Molly April Releases

Emily de Molly killed it with their release this month.  Seriously, there are soooo many amazing polishes in this collection.  It's probably one of my favourite releases that they have done...maybe.  Hayley really makes my job of deciding favourites hard!
 

Emily de Molly Created By Man (Polish PickUp April)

I'm slowly becoming obsessed with thermal nail polishes and Emily de Molly make some amazing thermals.  Created By Man is easily one of my favourites.
 

Picture taken in light box (cold state)

Emily de Molly Limited Editions March

I am a little late in swatching the Limited Edition polishes that were released in March but better late than never.  I do love LE90 and LE91.  Both are such awesome polishes.
 

Grace-full Nail Polish A Day At The Beach Collection

We all know that I am a sucker for bright coloured polishes and Grace-full have released a collection full of them which I love.
 

Dance Legend Enigma Polishes

I'm really not sure if Dance Legend are considered as "indie" or "mainstream".  Some people say indie, others say mainstream so your guess is as good as mine.  What I do know is that there are two polishes that I have fallen in love with this month - Mea Tulpa and Meanwhile.
 

That's everything I have been loving this month.  Next month, I have a bunch of new things to play with from plates (which aren't really new but I still haven't played with them yet) to polishes (both mainstream and indie) and a new (to me) brand!  I am excited for May!  I don't plan on daily blogging next month but looking at my planner I will still be blogging five to six times a week anyway.  So until then....

April 2017 Favourites

Today is the last day of April which means that we are getting closer and closer to Winter and OMG it's getting so cold already.  I am not looking forward to Winter at all.  I'm jealous of everyone going into Spring/Summer.  Anyway, we aren't here to talk about the weather are we?  Let's talk about all the things that I have been loving this month.  April has been a massive month for me.  I have continued on with my daily blogging (I've been daily blogging since the beginning of the year - not that I really set the goal to that, it's just happened), I have swatched 106 polishes and done 35 nail art manis.  Those numbers may be a little off because so of the manis I may have done before this month started but I have also done some manis that are for next month's blog posts or random manis that I just haven't posted anywhere.  You can imagine that seems I have swatched a lot and done a lot of nail art that my favourites this month is going to be quite big.  I'm seriously going to struggle when it comes time to do my favourites at the end of the year.

Nail Art

I've tried really hard to cut back on the amount of nail art favourites but it's still quite big.  I'm really not sure how people can only pick 4-5 manis as their favourites.  Despite the weather being colder this month I have still been loving my bright and pastel colours.  And stamping!  I love stamping!

Stamping Plates

I have been playing with a fair few stamping plates with month and while I think there are some good plates the only ones that I am going to be adding to my favorites for the month are the three What's Up Nails stamping plates.  These are the first and only plates I have from What's Up Nails and I am so impressed.  The designs are great and quality is fantastic.  I definitely want to add more to my collection.  You can see the manis I did using these plates here.

Image from What's Up Nails

Image from What's Up Nails

Image from What's Up Nails

Indie Polishes

As I mentioned earlier I have done a lot of swatching this month, so naturally have come across some gorgeous polishes which have stolen my heart. 

Emily de Molly Limited Edition Creme Polishes

We all know that Emily de Molly is one of my favourite brands and that I love creme polishes, so when you have Emily de Molly making creme polishes you just know that they are going to land right here in my favourites post.  The colours are beautiful and the formulas are amazing!  You can find my original post here if you missed it.

Emily de Molly From Out Of Nowhere

Ok so this polish isn't exactly new, nor was it even released this year but I have only just gotten around to using it and I love it!

Powder Perfect Fatal Attraction Collection

Powder Perfect's Fatal Attraction Collection is gorgeous but there are two polishes in particular that I fell in love with - Dark Whispers and Linger.  Seriously gorgeous.  You can find more pictures of these polishes (and the others in the collection) along with my review here.

Mainstream Polishes

There have been a lot of mainstream releases this month, particularly from China Glaze.  China Glaze have had 4 different collections this month (or that's just when I got my hands on them - they weren't necessarily released this month). 

China Glaze Spring Pastels Collection

This is hands down my favourite mainstream release this month.  This collection is a perfect Spring Collection if you ask me.  You can find my original post on this collection here.

China Glaze Shades Of Nude Collection

Probably my second favourite collection that China Glaze released this month is the Shades Of Nude Collection.  I can see me grabbing for these polishes and a matte top coat all throughout these colder months.  After much back and forth I managed to narrow my favourites from this collection to these four polishes - Bourgeois Beige, Fresher Than My Clique, Head To Taupe and Minimalist Momma.  You can see my swatches and review of the full collection here.

China Glaze Summer Reign Collection

Now I was a bit disappointed with this collection as a whole (I was really hoping for something more along the lines of the Lite Brites Collection) but there are a couple of polishes that I love - All Glammed Up and Summer Reign (this polish is so much nicer in person than in my picture).  You can find my swatches and review of the Summer Reign Collection here.

Orly Coastal Crush Collection

Now this is a summer collection!  I'm going to say that the Coastal Crush Collection is my favourite Summer Collection so far.  The colours are fantastic.  My favourites from this collection are For The First Time, Summer Fling and Under The Stars.  You can find the original post here.

Your Favourites
This month it appears again that my favourite nail art manis are the same as yours.  There are a couple of different manis but the couple that are in my top nine most liked manis on Instagram were also in my favourites but I cut them as I thought I had too many.  Lol

The three most view blog posts this month are:

China Glaze Shades Of Nude Collection

Emily de Molly Limited Edition Creme Polishes

China Glaze Summer Reign Collection

China Glaze is definitely a very popular brand on my blog.  It also seems to pop up in the most viewed/popular posts.  No complaints from me about that.  I love China Glaze polishes!

Anyway, that rounds up all the things that I have been loving for this month.  I have quite a few new things to play with in May so stay tuned for those.  

What polish have you been loving this month?