Barry M ~ Pacific and Mediterranean

Barry M ~ Pacific and Mediterranean

From the Aquarium collecion

Today I’m going to show you the two polishes I picked from Barry M’s Aquarium collection. There are actually six polishes in the collection but only these two spoke to me, I’ll get back to that later in the post.

Let me show you Pacific first. It’s a lovely duochromatic shimmer that shifts between teal and blue. It hasn’t got the strongest colourshift in the world, but it’s there. The polish is easy to work with and covers well in two coats. The drying time is pretty good too.

Here’s what it looks like, two coats and no topcoat:

I love that this isn’t prone to brush strokes!

Delicious, I like this!

Mediterranean is up next. It’s a pink to orange-y duochromatic shimmer and the colourshift in this one isn’t shy at all. Two coats, no problem with the formula, and this is just prettiness in a bottle.

Here’s a picture that shows the orange side the best.

And here’s the colourshift. Isn’t that lovely?

I love it when duochromes aren’t shy!

Bonus picture, just for fun: I dapped a couple of drops of Pacific and another couple of drops on Mediterranean on the nails and swirled it around with a dotting tool. I topped it off with topcoat, and here’s the final mani:

That didn’t at all turn out the way I wanted it to, so here is a picture of the polishes:

Like I mentioned there are four more polishes in this collection. There’s Mermaid, which is golden khaki to green duochrome, but that’s too golden for me. There’s also Arabian, which is green, blue and gold shredded glitter, which I’m just not a fan of, sorry. Caspian was another polish I didn’t get, mostly because it’s a pink to gold duochrome. The last one I didn’t buy is Treasure Chest, which is a mix of gold, rose and iridescent shredded glitter. Shredded glitter often sticks up and you all know I’m a picker so that doesn’t work for me. Never mind.

Did you get any from this collection?

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Average

Finish: Duochromatics
Overall impression: Barry M makes awesome polishes!

Buy again: Yes to both