Review: Barbara Daly Nail Polish in Starlight

Barbara Daly Nail Polish in Starlight - in natural light

With Flash

This is a gold metallic polish with a lot of subtle glitter.  It's a cool shade of gold, with tiny specks of iridescent glitter.  It's smooth unlike a lot of glitter polishes and is fully opaque after 2-3 coats.


This would be better suited to someone with a darker skin tone, I might use it for doing nail art.  This polish would be great as an accent nail to a nude colour like Grey Suede from Revlon.

Nail Art: Leopard Print with Bow

Not a good picture because I took it in the morning but anyway..:

Lilac nail varnish- Essence 72 Found My Love, Light blue- Essence 74 Fall For Me, outline is the Catrice nail varnish I posted about before.  I know the edges are a bit messy, took this photo before I fixed them up :)

How to do: Leopard Print Nails

Here's a tutorial on how to do your own leopard print nails.  First of all you will need three nail varnish colours, a light one for the base, another colour for the spots and a dark colour to outline.  You'll also need a thin brush (you can use a paint brush) to paint the outline.

Step One:

Paint your nails with your base colour.  I'm using 'Found My Love' from Essence.

Step Two:

Paint small splodges of your second colour on your nails at random.  I'm using 'Milan' from No7 which is a glittery pink.

Step Three:

Using a thin brush and your dark colour, outline parts of the second colour and do small dots in between too.  It doesn't matter if the outline is a bit messy because it gives a good effect.  I'm using 583 'Mystery Night' by Gosh which is a metallic dark purple.

Step Four:

Paint on a topcoat to make the design last longer and you're done! :)