Schwarzkopf LIVE Color XXL Ultra Brights Purple Punk review

I've had purple hair on and off since about 2009. I first got it done when I was at my mums hairdressers and it was done over a layer of blonde through my hair so the top layer went a dark plum colour and the bottom was an amazing kinda royal purple (?), is that even a colour. It was closer to blue than it was to pink and didn't have any red tones in it. I loved that, and the bottom colour is what I've been trying to find without going to the hairdressers. Everything else I've tried always is a plum pink colour, always got red tones in it. This was it back in 09.

So, onto the review. I finally saw this purple punk, and it looks an amazing colour on the box. Before I dyed my hair I had the whole ombre thing going on so I was aiming for dark purple on the top and bright purple on the ends for a dip dye look. 

You've to use this on damp hair, and rather than faffing about with the creme in a tube then the developer bottle, there was only one tube to deal with. It came out an electric purple, so bright, but my god did it stain everything it touched! Make sure you wear old clothes and stay away from everything!

I covered my whole head, and I think I left it in for about half an hour, maybe a bit longer and rinsed it all out completely. It takes a while to get it all out. When it was dry, I was a bit disappointed, it didn't make any difference to the top section of my hair, but to be fair it did say it would be best on bleached hair. I did think it was give it a bit of a tint in the light but nothing. 

The bottom section I really liked. It looked nothing like it did on the box haha but I still liked the colour. It's more of a pink purple and really really bright. The box said it's only temporary and lasts 6-8 washes. I'd say that was about right. It faded quite gradually but then one day I realised it was almost a peach colour and just looked ombre again. 

Overall, I wouldn't but it again, not purple enough but if I was going for a pinker colour then I'd definitely go for it.

Barry M Gelly Blueberry!

I saw this colour today, and even though I'm going through a glitter phase, I had to get it. Such a cute pastel colour, which I don't have a lot of. And I have no blue pastel!
I used this in my last mani, using it on my ring finger with some sparkle over the top, then I decided to put my holo topcoat to see what it did and it was amazing.
So I ended up taking all the Goldmine glitter off (which was a complete pain) and putting this on my other nails, complete with holo topcoat.
The topcoat makes it go a shimmery cornflour blue, and in bright light it's super sparkly. I'll put two photos up, one with flash and one without. I just love it.

Barry M Gold Mine

Haven't posted in quite some time, since I've got a job with later hours I've not had much of a chance to do cute nails, but I went out today and got Barry M Goldmine, Denim and Gelly Blueberry.
So I decided to do Goldmine on all my nails except from my ring finger, which has the Barry M Gelly Blueberry on it, and I also used OPI Servin' Up Sparkle and placed a few of the larger hex glitters at the bottom as well as a one coat over the top.

Pink Silver Glitter!

I loved the last glittery Barry M polish I got, which was the Amethyst Glitter, so I had a quick browse and thought the pink silver glitter looked awesome.
Didn't even have to use a coloured base coat or anything because the glitter is dense and packed really close together. Two coats was fine but I went with three just to make it extra glittery! The colour is amazing and the texture is different to other glitters too, not as rough or gritty.
I'll put up two pictures, one with flash and one without, they both look awesome!
Any suggestions for which Barry M glitter I should get next?

Barry M Amethyst glitter!

I've been seeing this nail paint everywhere and absolutely loved it. Unfortunately I've had be careful with my money and decided not to get it till now. It was so worth the wait, definitely one of my favourites I own, favourite glitter one for sure.
I've got Barry M Bright Purple on underneath this, and to be honest after one coat of the glitter it looked gorgeous, but I decided on a second one just to make it more sparkly.
I'd recommend it, super pretty!

Multicoloured leopard print!

Haven't done my nails in quite a while as I was working in a restaurant over Christmas and wasn't allowed to wear nail varnish, but hurrah, I can now go back to having pretty nails!
So I decided I fancied failsafe leopard print, but instead of neutraly colours, I added some colour to it, and it looks super cute!

The colours are Cyan Blue by Barry M and Silver Foil, also by Barry M.
Still haven't got round to getting dotting tools but I just used a bobby pin and it worked pretty much the same.
Need to do my right hand now and I can't be bothered. Knowing me I'll just forget to do it and wander about with one done hand. Oops.

Nail art with tape!

I've been seeing a few of these cool manis online but didn't think I could do it as I don't have special nail tape.
TURNS OUT, you don't need special nail tape, sellotape works fine, so I used just that.
It's a bit finicky because you have to cut the tape up and try and get them roughly the same width, and when the tape is that thin it gets stuck to stuff and you can't find it. And the worst thing was when the sellotape took off part of the silver base, so I had to use a blunt toothpick to fill it back in, so it looks a bit messy.
All in all though, I love it, looks so simple and pretty, I also decided to just put glitter on the ring finger to break it up a bit.

The colours I used were Barry M Nail Effects in Silver Foil, Barry M Indigo and for the sparkle it's OPI's Servin' Up Sparkle.
Also I don't know why the picture isn't upright the way I took it... weird.