The Christmas Holidays have arrived! But despite it being the most wonderful time of the year, I have been very busy with school and University Interviews up until the 17th December. However, now I have a lovely ten days of rest, relaxation, pressies and good food and will return to school in January ready for the beginning of the exam term and hopefully up to date with all my nail polish reviews.
Whilst in Leeds for an interview, I discovered that one of the biggest pulls to Leeds is the almost unimaginable amount of shops all crammed into such a small space. Of course it was impossible for me to walk past the Nails. Inc counter without having a look, and as a early christmas present my mum bought me these 5 special effect top coats, 3 of which in the 'Winter Wonderland' box and the other two the 'Snowflake' collection.
Nails Inc have merged with Alexa Chung for this season's polishes and one of the big 'things' this Christmas for them is cool shiny topcoats to put on top of normal polishes. Instead of reviewing each of them individually, I will review the box of three then the two snowflakes separately.
In the box of three was a brown and gold glitter, white glitter with lovely holographic shine, and red glitter. They go well on almost any polish, but the brown goes especially well on dark purple or dark red polishes, the red goes well on , well, red. And the white suits white polishes, duck egg blue polishes or anything with a lighter hue to it.
I especially like to use them just at the top of the nail or just at the bottom, as if the glitter has melted down the nail. This means you get a nice shine effect but it isn't too overwhelming. As with most glitter polishes they can be awkward to get on the nail as you have to make sure there is glitter on the brush and that it is going in the right place and can potentially take a while to perfect the 'imperfect' look.
I love these top coats as they add so much fun to your mani, and make it undeniably Christmassy, I think they, along with any of the new Alexa polishes, would make a great Christmas present. Hint Hint to any family members reading this stuck with what to get me ;).
Here are my ratings for the Nails.Inc 'Winter Wonderland' top coats;
Chipping: 3.5
Shine: 5
Colour: (doesn't really apply here) 1
Classic-ness: Makes for a classic Christmas Mani so 4
Overall; 4.75!
Love,
Tash
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