Manic(ure) Monday: Spring Reverse

When I saw a lovely reverse French manicure on Instagram yesterday, I knew it was time to get one on my nails asap, too. First I wanted to take the classic colours, white and nude, but then I thought of my new lilac nail polish from p2 and I wanted to see whether the manicure would look good with that colour, too. I started with a white base coat and then used reinforcement rings (I've used more of those for manicures than actually for sheets...) to create the half moon effect.

What I used:

ESSIE 1 Blanc

P2 030 Sweet Darling

Oh, and when we're already talking about the p2 polish, there's something else I wanted to show you. Remember that I said I wasn't sure whether there was a big difference between the p2 Sweet Darling and the Barry M Berry? Well I put the nail polishes on some display sticks and also tried a third purple nail polish in order to compare them and here's the result:

What do you think of the differences? In my eyes they are quite different shades as what I wanted is a lovely lavender colour with more blue than red percentage which I found with the p2 nail polish. The Barry M is a lovely pastel, too but it comes closer to pink than to purple. The Youstar nail polish is a bit too dark to be a pastel even if it looks much lighter in the bottle. All in all the p2 is definitely my favourite! Which is yours? And what do you think of today's manicure?