Butter London Pimms and Lynnderella Connect The Dots

Butter London Pimms

Here's a self indulgent post about some of my favourite things - yellow polish and black and white glitter! My newest yellow polish and my oldest black and white glitter, to be exact. This is Butter London Pimms. It's not a new shade, I think it was from BL's autumn 2013 collection, but when I saw it in my local Boots last week it just seemed so bright and perfect for summer I had to buy it! I don't have a yellow quite like it - I usually go for paler, lemony yellows, greenish yellows, mucky yellows or mustard yellows - avoiding primary yellows because they look kind of 'eggy' and I don't like them on my hands. But this is perfect! The application was fantastic too - this is two coats with Seche Vite topcoat. Much as I love yellow, many yello polishes can be a real pain to apply.

Butter London Pimms

So I wore it on its own for a couple of days then I added black and white glitter. I love black and white glitter, and I have quite a collection of them now - hexagonal ones, mixed shapes, tiny glitters, some with bar glitter, dots, squares, some with highlights of other colours, or background shimmer, or bits of holo - you name it, there's a variant of black and white glitter out there somewhere and chances are I own it, lol! But this is the one that started them all - Lynnderella Connect The Dots. I was amazed when I first saw pictures of this - I'd never seen anything like it before. This was back in the day when Lynnderella sold direct from her blog and people got together for group orders... lot of water under the bridge since then. But this was my first black and white glitter, and my first indie polish in fact! There are other black and white glitters I probably like more now, but this is the original, and I still have a soft spot for it.

Butter London Pimms with Lynnderella Connect The Dots

One coat of Connect The Dots over my existing mani with BL Pimms, with a coat of Gelous to smooth and Seche Vite to finish.

Butter London Pimms with Lynnderella Connect The Dots

All products in this post are from my personal collection and were purchased by me.

Dark Metal Lacquer True

Dark Metal Lacquer True

This is the second of the polishes I bought from Dark Metal Lacquer recently -True. A beautiful cornflower blue scattered holo! I'm just going to let the pictures speak for themselves... first, on a sunny day, but not in direct sunlight:

Then in strong, direct sunlight:

Dark Metal Lacquer True

And in the shade, still a very, very pretty shade of blue....

Dark Metal Lacquer True

And finally, artificial lighting...

Dark Metal Lacquer True

I love this, and holo is probably one of my least favourite finishes. Application was easy - this is two coats with Seche Vite. There was no pulling or dragging and the topcoat didn't spoil the holo, like it does with some of the fussy holo classics. I'd definitely recommend this polish to all holo fans!

I purchased True from Dark Metal Lacquer Etsy shop (using a blogger discount) - I also got a purple holo shade, Havens, which look super-pretty in the bottle - but I'm saving that one for a special occasion. Since I got these some very pretty pastel holo shades appeared in the shop too - I might be tempted by a couple of those in the future!

Dark Metal Lacquers Heurt

Dark Metal Lacquer Heurt

This is the first polish I tried from the relatively new UK Indie Brand Dark Metal Lacquer. Heurt is a vampy jelly with tiny copper holo glitter. I just happened to be wearing Butter London La Moss (a dark burgundy shade) when this arrived in the mail, so I made good use of the undies I was already wearing! This mani is two thin coats of Heurt over the vampy base with Seche Vite topcoat.

Application of Heurt was smooth and easy; the jelly finish has lots of depth and my nails make me think of glittery blackberry jam! I believe heurt is french for collision!

Dark Metal Lacquer Heurt

I purchased Heurt from Dark Metal Lacquer's etsy shop (blogger discount given).