Beauty Bible Weekend Steal: Nails.I NC It's Topless (new spring shades)
After Jo’s Japanese Manicure at Swanky (read review here), she’s enjoyed impressively strong, flake-proof nails – which also weirdly seemed to grow faster – for a couple of months. Honestly, a first.
But when a bumper fun pack from Nails.INC of fab spring shades lands on the desk… well, it’s honestly easier to resist a bag of sweets. Especially when they don’t need the faff of a base coat OR a top coat, but just paint straight onto a naked nail. And especially when it happened to be International Women’s Day/Week/Month/whatever, and looking that bit more pulled-together is really the order of the day.
The pic above doesn’t really do justice to the shimmery shades. The banana yellow, pale blue and soft pinky-coral are solid colours, but the rest are shot through with gleam and glimmer, shimmer and glow – and are just so flattering, having the same effect on hands as pearls do near the face.
We waited a week to write this review, meanwhile, because we wanted to see what the wear was like, without a top coat and base coat (whaaaaat????) – and honestly? Barely a chip, after seven days.
The arrival of these also happened to coincide with Jo listening to a podcast recorded last November with Nails.INC founder Thea Green on Holly Tucker’s ‘Conversations of Inspiration’ show. It isn’t just fascinating for anyone building a brand (beauty or otherwise), but a real insight into how to juggle work and family, stay engaged, why it’s not a bad thing to embrace naivety – and so, so much more. (Note: journalist Thea started her brand at the age of just 23. GULP!)
A strong recommend that you can listen to here…
Millie (metallic coral/orange)/£8.99 – buy here
Giselle (shimmery pale blue)/£8.99 – buy here
Heidi (pale yellow)/£8.99 – buy here
Paloma (apricot)/£8.99 – buy here
Remi (rose gold shimmer)/£8.99 – buy here
