Please stop biting your lip- OPI " 50 Shades of Grey" Collection

Ok admit it, you’ve at least read or been intrigued about the whole “50 Shades of Grey” saga?
Hey with 100 million copies sold there is bound (get it “bound” sorry that’s a 50 Shades inside joke) to be someone that has.
Shhh don’t tell anyone but I put my hand up very timidly but I do have to admit that I may (OK yes I do) own the 50 shades series of books and I secretly want to see the movie (coming out in Feb conveniently on valentine’s day) BUT I will never actually say the above words out loud so please be kind and humour me :-)

So when I heard and saw that OPI brought out the “50 Shades of Grey” collection you can just imagine my reaction, and yes I did do a silent jump for joy (cue the sad sad music). Even if you’re not into the whole “50 Shades” thing you have to admit these look damn good:

The lovely peeps at COTY Australia sent me the collection to test out and yes I just can’t wait to try these babies out and try to come up with some “50 Shades” nail art and maybe start re-reading the books just in time for the movie to hit cinemas so hit me up with your ideas so I can steal them :-)

They are available from MYER, David Jones, Sephora stores NOW!!
$19.95 RRP for each 15ml bottle or
$29.95 RRP for the 6 mini pack 

more to come but signing off
Kim

Who doesn't like the luzury of 18k Gold hey... Sally Hansen 18k cuticle eraser and hardener

Just look at this sparkly goodness...

Got sent these pretties last week and have been testing them ever since.

Cuticle Eraser
I have to say I do like a good scrub of my skin so when I saw a nail scrub I knew this would be right up my alley, and it didn't disappoint. The application is easy, you take the lid off and squeeze a small amount of gel out for your nail and I actually used my other hand to rub my cuticle then rinsed it off.
I couldn't really see much difference but my cuticles did feel less dry so maybe with a couple more weeks of testing more results could follow.

Nail Hardener
Now at the moment I don't have to do a lot of maintenance on my nails as I did the hard yards for a couple of months and looked after them like they were my children but now I just spend a couple of minutes a day on them and they are as good as gold (get it... sorry had to say it)
In the past I have tried heaps of things to make my nails harder and better (shhh don't tell anyone) I use to have really bad nails... shock horror I know. I use to have splitting nails, brakes all the time and just looking at them I'd get a hang nail so when I decided enough was enough it was time to do something about them I did go out and buy dozens of products that would magically fix things over night. But guess what, shock horror it didn't work like that. Unfortunately it takes time and effort.
If you want to improve your nails but a) don't have the time b) don't like naked plain jane nails then this nail hardener product is for you.
With speckles of gold throughout the clear polish you get some bling while helping your nails.
I applied this under my polish and then tested them over different colours and this is the result:

Now I will confess there was one slightly annoying thing about this product and that was, once you removed it (with nail polish remover) the flecks of gold stayed behind, like seriously stayed behind.
I haven't resorted to using the cuticle scrub yet but even with 2 goes with nail polish remover they are not budging. I have applied polish over the top and you can't see the flecks through new polish so it isn't really a big issue but it does kind of look unusual that you have twinkly plain nails haha.

Apart from the above slight issue these products are well worth getting for your maintenance routine.
Sally Hansen 18K Gold Hardener, RRP$16.95 and 18K Gold Cuticle Eraser, RRP$12.95 are available from February 2015 at Priceline, Chemist Warehouse, Target, Coles, and select pharmacies nationally. For stockists please call 1800 812 663

signing off

Kim xoxox