Magnetic Nail Paint
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This was the first product I actually tried from Barry M, which is surprising because when I first got this I wasn't very impressed with it. When my order from boots came (this isn't Barry M's fault!) the magnet from the star shaped one wasn't attached! I got a full refund but to this day I'm still not able to use the star one because I don't want to buy the same colour nail polish again just so I can get the magnet! Rant over.
When I first got this product I was excited because my friend who's also Barry M crazy had done it on her nails in the horizontal striped magnet (I don't own this shape!) and I loved it. It looked really nice on her purely because she has really nice long healthy natural nails, but I thought the nail varnish looked so pretty I wanted to give it a go. At this point I had acrylic nails too so I though "ooo it might look nice on my unnatural long nails!" I was wrong... on my first go I couldn't get the magnet to make the pattern over my whole nail. The magnet kept touching my nails and ruining the pattern in the wet nail polish, it would only make the pattern in the middle of the nail etc. so I gave up for a few weeks.
After that I decided I'd watch a video on YouTube to see how they did it, and a lot of the videos on there they had slender nails that would fit under the magnet anyway so I became a bit disheartened until I came across a video of a girl with quite wide nails - just like my own! She used the magnet like normal but rotated it from side to side - duh! I couldn't believe I hadn't thought of doing that, it seemed so obvious!
After I tried that I loved it. My only worry is, is if I got a pattern that shouldn't be stretched round a nail it might not work so well with rotating it across my wide nails - but the two I have that at the moment definitely work!
The nail polish gives you a really nice even pattern across your nail, and it's much easier than doing proper nail art (although I love doing that too!). The finish look of the nail varnish is really pretty. The colours are metallic and I think they look quite nice, even without a magnetic pattern on them. I think they only need one coat, but the instructions say to apply a base coat of it then apply another to use for the pattern so I haven't tried doing a pattern without doing a base coat of it so I couldn't comment on that.
Overall I think this is a great product and I think you'd enjoy the patterns it makes!
*One point to mention is that on the boots website I couldn't find out what the magnets were that came with each nail varnish, so you may have to do some research if you're ordering online, these were just pot luck I didn't know what I was going to get - only the colours!*
The colours I own are: "magnetic burgundy", "magnetic dark silver" and "magnetic blue".
Favourite colour? "Magnetic blue"
Best thing about this product? Once you get your head around how to use it you can make really pretty patterns really easily!
Worst thing about this product? Unless you're really good at nails you're probably not going to be able to pick up this product and get perfect nails each time, practice makes perfect!
Overall rating? 4.4 / 5!
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