Ultimate Summer Nails

I made the decision to not have my nails professionally done before I go on holiday, instead I want to save the money for a splurge in Duty-Free. I'm just going to do my own french tipped nails, so that they are no fuss and I don't have to lug about ten bottles of nail polish away with me. This has led to my hunt for the perfect summer nail colour, which I think I have found!

I picked up two new Rimmel nail polishes on offer as 2 for £5. Rimmel have some of the nicest polishes in the drugstore which are great quality. The majority of the polishes I own are from Rimmel because I like them so much.

The first one I picked up was part of the Rita Ora collection and is called Bestival Blue. I originally thought that it would be quite similar to Too Cool to Tango, but it turns out that they are very, very different. Bestival Blue is a medium-deep cornflower blue creme nail polish. I has very good pigmentation and is completely opaque after two thinner coats.

The second that I chose was Rose Libertine which is just part of the normal 60 seconds Super Shine line. I own lots of pink coloured nail polishes but this one just spoke to me! Rose Libertine is a warm toned pinky-peach colour. It's pigmentation is not as good as Bestival Blue and required an extra coat to reach the same opacity.

It's not just that they are amazing colours on their own, but I think that they would also look great worn at the same time. I think that these will be the only two polishes that make it across the Atlantic with me.

Which is your favourite?

Louise x x

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