Tipwear and regrowth annoy me so much, especially when I’m wearing a polish I don’t have much of! Nailside’s rightly famous cloud mani is stylish and covers up the tips, but I want a bit of variety, so you’re going to be seeing a lot of my experiments!
Garrick St is in the artsy, theatre Covent Garden area of London, which is what I guess this polish is trying to capture. I got it as part of a giveaway prize from Viktoria, and I couldn’t wait to try this one on its own!
It’s a purple-blue duochrome – pinkish purple at the edges, with really blingy chunky blue foil shimmer flecks where the light hits. It’s really gorgeous – elegant but interesting. The formula is nice and smooth. This is 3 coats but you can get away with 2, I just bumped a finger and needed a final cover-up. Topcoat is Poshe.
The basecoat was Nails Inc Kensington Caviar, which was also part of the giveaway prize. I had a noticeable amount of tipwear after a couple of days (with lots of hair- and dishwashing), but I’m not sure which part caused it.
I covered the tips with ulta3 Envy, a gorgeous blingy foil, taping a little triangle at the end of each nail. I really like this pattern – it’s simple but bold, and very easy to do. What do you think? 🙂
i love this! great colors too
Thanks! I’m in love with Garrick St 🙂
gorgeous colors!
Thank you! I’m always surprised by the ulta3 one – it looks terrible on me as a full mani but it’s awesome for nail art!
I’m not a big fan of this pattern, I can tolerate it on my nails with triangle in half-moons place 😉 If I need to cover my chipped tips I do simple french line 😛
Haha – I hate doing French tips because I can never get them to be the same width, even with stickers!
That base polish is a beaut xxx
It’s gorgeous, you should try to get it – I wish Nails Inc was easy to get here! I would buy three backups 🙁
Great idea to extend your mani wear time. 🙂
Thanks! But it means I’ve gotten behind in my mani schedule 🙁 The dilemmas of a nail blogger!
Very stylish in it self and a nice tip-wear-hider too 🙂
Thanks! 🙂
I really like this! It’s a great way to cover up tip wear and make a great statement!
Thank you! 🙂