Barry M Candy Culture swatches & review 🍬🍬

*PR samples sent to me for review. All opinions stated are my own*

Hi everyone

So I’m really excited because I have some lovely new Barry M polishes to show you!

Candy Culture is a new range of gorgeous pastel cremes for Spring/Summer 18. What is most thrilling about these polishes is that they are all scented.

This isn’t the first time Barry M have released scented polish – do you remember the Lolly Gloss gellies from 2016?

They were a real hit with me so I was really happy to see these new ones!

The packaging on these polishes are absolutely adorable- the neon pink fruit and sweeties on the caps look so cute.

Similarly to the Lolly Gloss scents, these Candy Culture pastels all smell like sweeties and their names give a clue to which candy they will smell like.

Barry M do say that that you have to wait for the polish to dry before you can properly smell the lovely sweet treat inspired fragrances.

So in order to test this I wore all the polishes on my cindy hand for a couple of days without topcoat.

I’ll talk about the different scents when we get to the swatches but I will say that they lasted about 2 days before I couldn’t smell them anymore.

As a Mum I’m constantly washing my hands and washing up bottles so that probably lessened the staying power of the scents. But it was fun to have yummy smelling nails for a while!

All the polishes have a similar formula in that they are opaque in 2 coats and dry to a semi-matte satin finish.

While easy to apply, they do have a fairly runny consistency so I’d advise against loading up the brush to much when applying.

So moving onto the swatches – I used 2 coats for all shades and my swatches are without topcoat.

First up is Blueberry Bonbon. I would say this is my favourite of the 4 shades. It is a dusty, grey leaning powder blue and really reminds me of blue bonbons!

I think this one definitely smells exactly like the chewy little candies and it has the strongest scent of the collection.

Barry M Blueberry Bonbon

Next up is Strawberry Laces. I loved those sweets as a kid and still do now!!

This is a gorgeous, classic baby pink which looks slightly chalky in the bottle but this doesn’t transfer to the nail. For a pastel pink, it applies really nicely.

Scent-wise it did smell sweet once dry, but I couldn’t really catch the strawberry laces smell.

Barry M Strawberry Laces

The third polish in the collection is Raspberry Sherbet. It’s quite an unusual cool violet shade. So pretty.

To me, this one smells a bit like Raspberry yoghurt. Which I like, so all good there!

Barry M Raspberry Sherbert

Finally we have Coconut Cream. This lovely lilac toned taupe shade smells so delicious.

I’d describe the scent as sweet and creamy with a hint of chocolate. It’s really very nice.

This one is office friendly and will go with everything.

Barry M Coconut Cream

So that’s it for the swatches. The Candy Culture collection is perfect for Spring and the added scents make this a really fun release from Barry M.

I wonder if BM will make some more shades for this collection – a nice pastel lime (chocolate lime scent?!) would be a nice addition.

The Candy Culture Collection is available for in Superdrug and on the Barry M website. They are priced at £3.99 each.

Let me know what you think of this collection, are you a fan of scented polish?

Thanks for stopping by!

LLx

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