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It seems that me and my girls have officially been bitten by the nail polish bug. Everyone’s into nails right now and we’re even spree-ing on nail polish purchases.

I recently picked up my first Rimmel nail polish in Green With Envy (#819), which is a shimmery green with hints of blue. It looked more blue in the bottle which prompted me to buy it, but when applied it looks very straight up green until you see it in daylight. It then turns into a beautiful shade of sea green with bluish tints. Think mermaids and wide oceans!

Here the photos are taken in daylight (no flash) with 2 coats. No base coat and no top coat. Although it applied evenly and is pretty much opaque, if you look closely you can still make out a bit of the nail bed beneath. So after I took this picture, I put a third coat that really enhanced the depth of the color but was too lazy to retake the pictures.

Unfortunately, I’m very hard on my nails, so by the end of the first day, I was already seeing slight signs of tip wear on my index fingers even with top coat applied.

What I love most about this polish is Rimmel’s 1 second brush. The brush is made to be flat and wider than normal brushes and it makes application simply awesome! I’m done with each nail in two strokes because of the width of the brush and I find that I don’t muck up my polish so much because I’m not going over it repeatedly.

Rimmel also dries almost instantly – they claim that your nails will be done in 60 seconds and honestly, it does work. I should know, since I went and hung out my laundry like 5 minutes after applying the second coat. No chipping, no scratching/hatch marks and no smudging!

In a nutshell, Rimmel is awesome and I’m definitely going to do my nails more often with polishes like this.

I have forgotten the price of this polish, but I do remember that I got it for 20% off at Watsons so wait around for sales.

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