Thank you immensely for tuning into my blog, it's just a little ditty I thought I might start writing in order to document my move from the big smoke of Adelaide to the noticablely littler smoke of Keith in South Australia's South East - a small puff to Adelaide's big smelter, if you will. I must confess I have a possibly unhealthy obsession with all things beauty-related, so I thought I might confide in this blog all of the products I love, love not so much, and the ones that make me sad and angry and disappointed because I had such high hopes for them (you know who you are Biotherm). So I hope you enjoy it, and that I don't come off to preachy, and that a lot of well-moisturised, well-manicured, and well-quiffed fun is had by all.
I thought I might begin by telling you about an illness I came down with about this time last week called 'omg I live 2 hours from the nearest Priceline and so now when I encounter one I go absolutely mental and buy up many many fabulous things that I love but really don't need-itis'. It's a heart-breaking disease, and in myself manifested itself thus:
Well, truth be told I also encountered a Target and thus the amazing polishes that have had me walking around for a week looking like multi-coloured Barbie are Rimmel London's Blue My Mind ($7.95) from the 60 seconds range:
b collection by Bloom for Target's Tokyo ($15.95):
And pulling it all together was the amazing Sally Hansen's Double Duty Strengthening Base & Top Coat ($12.99):
From a technical perspective, the Rimmel polish has some kind of new crazy flat-ish brush that I had never seen before, which did kind of make it easier to put on but as I am a bit of an uncoordinated wonder I found that twiseling the brush around so that the flat bit of the brush was facing my nail was a bit of a nightmare (I'm sure less coordinationally challenged people would find it very easy to use, however). The colour of Blue My Mind was a bit more purpley than expected and on closer inspection I'm not sure it looked very nice against my skin tone, but I had fun wearing it none the less.
The Bloom polish was one of my biggest revelations, the consistency, the colour, and the ease of application were all fantastic. I rarely ever apply nail polish without going outside the nail (uncoordinated as charged) but with this it was an absolute breeze. I think I may have to sneak back into Target whenever I'm next near it and buy the whole collection as this polish is absolutely amazing!
And last but not least, Sally Hansen, you're my hero. I've never had a base & top coat (cheeky little two-in-oner) that allowed me to forget about having to re-touch chips in my nail polish for an entire week! I applyed these babies last Tuesday night and only last night did one of my fingers chip - AMAZING. I've also tried the other Sally Hansen top & base coat in the silver bottle (Diamond Strength Diamond Shine Base & Top Coat) as well as OPI top and base coats, but this one absolutely rocks my socks right off.
Till we meet again.
xoxo
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