Review

Hey everyone! Bit of a long post today, so grab a cuppa! Rimmel were kind enough to send me the whole new Rita Ora Collection, which is super duper exciting for me!! Rimmel are always fantastic for creating staple shades which look great alone or as underwear for a glitter, so they are must-haves in my eyes, and this collection is no exception. I have to confess to not knowing a lot about Rita herself, other than that she’s a British singer songwriter with a much-envied style! She apparently created these shades and named them which is pretty cool 🙂 the names are a little risqué, but you know how I like raunchy polish names! Such fun, in the words of Miranda’s mother!

These polishes are all in the 60 seconds range, which means they should be touch dry within 60 seconds. Great if you’re in a rush, as long as it does actually dry in that time! I have to mention the packaging quickly – I just adore the pop-arty stamps on the brush handles, and I especially love the fact that the background on each stamp matches the colour of the polish in that bottle, as well as the nails on the stamps too… it’s the little things!

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Hey chickas! I have a thermal polish to show you… I’ve been putting off this post for a while – you will probably notice that my nails are still quite long in these pics, that’s because they are from at least 2 weeks ago! The reason I’ve been putting it off is because I took about a gazillion photos to try and capture the thermal shift. I also realised halfway through these gazillion pictures, that as I was heating and cooling my nails in water and drying them off, the towel I was using to dry them was shedding black fluff all over my fingers. So it’s been a bit of a mammoth task sorting through the pics! However, I’ve got there in the end!

Thermals are so much fun to wear but I have a really hard time capturing them on camera due to my funky body temperatures. A lot of the time, my nails had bright blue at the very tips where they were cold, white in the middle of my free edge where that was warm, and blue over the rest of my nail where my body temperature was low… and no about of heating or cooling would change that, so I had to be quick to capture!!

(Cold).
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Hey everyone, how are you all today? I was looking back over my old blogposts the other day, and I realised I never put anything much of my life in these any more. Is that something that you liked or something you don’t miss? In case you’re interested, I’m still looking for a job to no avail… I’m trying hard not to let it get me down but every few days it does get on top of me! I’m really glad to have my blog to create some consistency in my life… at the moment it’s mostly job-hunting and keeping the flat tidy, it’s very boring! Anyway, hope you’re well. I’m going down memory lane tonight and listening to The Eagles – Hotel California 🙂

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Hey chickas! A while back I picked up two GOSH Frosted Sand Look polishes… and promptly forgot about them. I’ve worn this one once already and adored it, so when I decided last night that I needed something glittery but not too OTT for my interview today, this sprung to mind.

The cap on these is sparkly and slightly textured too… it’s the little things! It promises a “glittery matt finish” – which is certainly accurate! You know what I’m like with textured polishes… there aren’t enough of ’em in this world…!!! I can’t get enough!

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Hello lovelies! Today I have another pretty nail varnish from Jacava London. As I said in my review of Regent Street, my favourite thing about this brand is their great ethical values. They are 8-Free, which means they are free from  DBP, Camphor, Formaldehyde, Toluene, Formaldehyde Resin/Tosylamide, Parabens, Phthalates and Animal Ingredients. They are also cruelty-free and vegan… there’s no blotting that copybook! I do love when a brand takes the initiative to forge forwards with good ethics, it makes a nice change from all the ones that just do it for compliance.

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