THE FIVE DAY NAIL POLISH EXPERIMENT - KIKO

It's monday and I don't have to do anything. The best feeling in the world.

I've been wearing the Kiko royal blue nail polish I already mentioned HERE for the past 5 days. In that previous post I also highlighted what the brand says about the nail polish: "special ingredients intensify the adherence of pigments to the nail creating an elastic and resistant film, and that the active anti-wear boosts its durability and color vibrancy".
It is, as far as I know, only available in Italy, Spain and Germany.

In comparison with the Essence nail polish I did an experiment with HERE, you can see a clear difference. I again used 2 coats, no base coat, no top coat. The photos are a bit different in this post, because, for example, on the third day I wasn't home at all, but I got the chance to photograph the wonderful Sara L. (and you can check that out HERE) so I had my camera with me and took a photo right there, and on the very first day I totally forgot to take a photo, but on the first day the nail polish looks great anyway so I just added the photo from the previous post about Kiko.

I really do not know what the color number or name of this royal blue polish is because I cannot find it on the bottle and the Kiko website has SO many blue shades and shades in general that I don't know which one to pick.

REVIEW: BALEA SPLASHY WATERMELON

I'm healthy again. Review time.

Price & size:
I paid €1,45 in Salzburg where I got this. You receive 10 g of lip balm in a small metal dose, and it really is tiny and adorable.

What it says on the packaging:
"...your lips become soft and are protected from dryness." "soft care for your lips, fruity freshness for you."

Ingredients:
Since there are only 5 ingredients in this lip balm, which are vaseline (PETROLATUM), perfume, a substance that gives you shine (MICA) , color (CI 77491) and vitamin E (TOCOPHEROL), there is only one ingredient that I would point out as highly recommended and that is TOCOPHEROL - pure vitamin E, which is considered "an antioxidant superstar" and I have written about its various benefits here.

PETROLATUM, PARFUM, CI 77491, MICA, TOCOPHEROL.

My opinion:
I like this lip balm very much. I usually prefer lip balms packaged in sticks over doses because you have to use your fingers with these and your fingers aren't always clean, so I stick my lips into the dose and just twirl the dose to get a nice amount of lip balm on. :)
The lip balm really is nourishing, it smells very nice. I don't find that it tints my lips at all despite it's deep red color and it gives me a nice shine.
I specifically love Balea's products because the brand itself is very environmentally friendly, it states on the packaging that the paper comes from very responsible sources and that 70% of it is completely recyclable.

BERRY PURPLE NAILS!

I'm still sick. 7 days and counting. No nail polish experiments yet - oh well. I did my nails differently today, I actually used a nail cutter to trim my nails (I usually file them), even though I heard it causes nail splitting. Well, I'll see for myself.
I got this beautiful berry purple color from s-he stylezone, the number is 240. I hate numbers, and this company, even though they completely redesigned their whole line a few months ago, still didn't realize that names are so much more memorable than numbers, and so much more fun, too.
The bow ring is from H&M, it's a few years old. How are you doing? Hope no one else is sick.

ROSY TAUPE NAILS!

I've been sick for the past 5 days and today I also stayed home. I went to Salzburg on Saturday because I had already paid for the trip but I think that it only prolonged my sickness. I cannot do an experiment with nail polishes right now because all I do all day long is lay in bed. I really love this color. It's by s-he stylezone, the color is 324, and this might be my all time favorite nail polish color. I think I might have to stock up on these. :)

SUNNY YELLOW NAILS!

The color I have been wearing for the past two days is Catrice's 010 Don't feed the birds. It's definitely not expensive and you get 10 ml/0.34 fl.oz of beautiful canary bird yellow color. The fact that this reminds me of canary birds is the reason why I drew one on my hand in Photoshop. I know it's silly. Forgive me. :)

I don't like this nail polish. I do like the color, but I hate the pigmentation. I actually needed 5 layers of polish to get the real out-of-the-bottle-color to show up. You know what that means? 5-10 minutes of drying between each layer - and that sucks. With one or two layers your nails will look like you've been smoking for 50 years, no joke. After three layers I added two more to get the color from the photo above.

And since I had to put on five layers of it, it's not fair to compare these results to the ones from Essence's nail polish. That's why I most likely won't be posting the 5 day experiment photos, of course it won't wear off as fast as some other nail polish of which I only needed 2 layers. I really really really don't like getting sheer nail polishes after being so excited about the bright color that's in the bottle.