When it comes to bad beauty habits I am the first one to admit that one of my worst is picking off my nail polish. I am just so lazy when it comes to digging out some cotton wool and Cutex. So the lazy girl's nail polish dream? Colour that lasts but comes off easily and quickly - introducing the solution: the Little Ondine range of peelable polish.
Little Ondine have created a formula composed of natural resin, organic colourants and water that is not only peelable, but doesn't have that chemical smell that normal polishes do and is in fact completely odour free. I have the shades True Love which is a gorgeous, plummy red and New Year's, a sparkling, gold glitter, which look perfect when paired together. The polish applies smoothly and evenly, made even easier by the wide brush and each layer dries extremely quickly. Definitely no risk of the dreaded smudging here! True Love took about 3 coats to become fully opaque and 2 coats of New Year's gives an almost solid block of glitter.
Although you can peel off the nail varnish at anytime, to make it last longer before naturally peeling, Little Ondine advise not allowing your nails to come into contact with water for at least an hour after application - ideally 3 hours. I'd personally recommend the latter or as long as possible, as when I left it just an hour I got about two days wear before it really started peeling at the sides and one nail fell off of its own accord! I will point out though that I didn't apply any base or top coat as you can't use any other brand of nail polish with Little Ondine, which would have also made a difference. If you keep your nails drier for longer (the formula is designed to harden and stabilise over time), then you can get an extra 1-2 days wear. But I love how easy it is to remove any time you want - it peels off all in one go with minimal effort and doesn't leave any residue on the nail.
Little Ondine nail polishes cost £8.40 each, so are in the mid range price bracket, but I will definitely be indulging in my lazy side and picking up a few more of their stunning shades, including the top coat. You can view the full range here.
Have you tried Little Ondine? What do you think of the concept of peelable polish?
Beauty Bird xx
These are next on my list of brands to try out and I've actually spent quite a while on their site today trying to decide which colours I'm going to go for! x
ReplyDeleteBecky @ The Little Blog of Beauty
Which colours did you decide on in the end?xx
DeleteOmg this sounds great since I'm always running out of nail polish remover! It's a shame they don't last very long though x
ReplyDeleteTR's Thoughts
It's difficult with polish though, wear time is subject to so many variables xx
DeleteI love the sound of these, would be ideal for glitter polishes that are especially difficult to remove xx
ReplyDeleteIoanna | Hearting.co.uk
Absolutely! Glitter is such a pain to remove xx
DeleteI've been reading amazing reviews of these, they look wonderful! Great post!
ReplyDeletexo Kiki
http://colormekiki.com/
Thanks Kiki! xx
DeleteThe glitter looks great, I'm thinking I might treat myself to one of those :)
ReplyDeleteI love a good glitter! You definitely should treat yourself xx
DeleteThis sounds like a great product, though I'm a picker and theres nothing better than nail polish coming off in a oner, so I think this might be wasted on me applying just to peel!
ReplyDeleteHannah | Granite City Girl
I know what you mean there! Once you start picking you can't resist! xx
DeleteThis is a really nice polish and it's good that it is peel-able too!
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I will have to pick up some more shades xx
DeleteSo genius. I want to try the glitter ones!
ReplyDeleteTara x
Agreed! They have a really good selection xx
DeleteThese look so good! & I really love the colours they remind me of Christmas :D
ReplyDeleteAbiee xx
http://www.abieelucas.com
I agree, they're fab colours for winter/Christmas! xx
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