Monday 30 July 2012

Glitter nail polish - as an adult

So, I have this crazy obsession with nail polish. I must admit, my favourite brand is OPI and I currently have over 30 colours (which trust me, is very few).
Because the bottles are over $20 each here in Australia I try not to buy too many as I know what I can be like.
My friends and I have discovered this amazing website in the US where the bottles are about $7.00 each, so we order crazy amounts (my first order was 16 bottles) and then we pay split the postage per bottle. Unfortunately we end up waiting 2-3 months for the order to arrive, and inevitably there are some missing and then it's the annoying flurry of emails back and forth trying to figure out where the bottles are, or who is lying bout either sending or receiving.
Anyway, I fell in LOVE with the Muppets range, which pretty much consist or ridiculously bright colours and lots of glitter, so I ordered five bottles from the range.
One colour in particular was so amazing, it's called Gone Gonzo. I didn't take a photo of it on, but you can see it here. The colour is amazing, it's this really fine blue glitter with little silver glitter hexagons in it. Super bright and fun, just my cup of tea.
So I wore this colour for a little over a week. That's pretty much the life-span of all my nail polishes, even with the two layers of base coat, 3 layers of colour and two layers of top coat. However instead of chipping like the majority of my manicures would do by this stage, it hadn't done anything. AWESOME! I thought.
So tonight I decided it was time for a change, so I got out my nail polish remover and the cotton wool pads and off I went, however as much as I love the nail polish colour and concept, I was not very impressed with the removal of it.
Glitter nail polish as an adult is not fun to remove. Every single piece of glitter was glued to my nail and it took me 20 minutes just to do one hand. At which point I gave up and started peeling it off the other hand.
So from now on, I think I will be sticking to block colours, maybe with some sparkle and teeny bits of glitter. Which is such a shame as I really loved the glitter polish on...
Or, I could just forget the whole awful removal side of it, and wear it again in 6 months time :)
Have a good night, I'm off to paint my nails!

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