This weekend has been the perfect balance of fun and relaxation. Friday night was spent chilling out - blogging, bath time and an early night. On Saturday I went to Brixton Village with my friend and experienced Honest Burgers for the first time (more on this triumph below) and in the evening I went out with some of my netball team. I've woken up this morning not only deeply hungover, but with a sore throat, and I think I have finally succumbed to illness having managed to avoid the winter bugs to date. Damn.
My week's greatest discovery, was OPI RapiDry Top Coat. I have rubbish nails, always have and probably always will. I was a nail biter as a youth, and as an adult I've been a fairly regular acrylic nail wearer. This has left me with badly shaped, thin and weak nails. Now that I play netball, I'm not allowed acrylic nails so I'm having to work with what my mama gave me, and that means I've had to go back to painting them myself, something which I hate doing. I find this such a loathsome task because I can NEVER manage not to smudge my nails before they're dry.
Having discovered OPI RapiDry, painting my nails has become what I've always wanted it to be - a pleasure.
After painting my nails with two coats of my nail varnish of choice, and waiting around 90 seconds for it to part dry, I popped the RapiDry over the top. Instructions suggest waiting 5 minutes for the RapiDry to fully dry your nails, but I found in about 3 minutes I was completely dry (this was using a BarryM polish, other polishes may vary) - for me, that's completely genius. The other benefit, was the lovely gloss finish it provides - two birds, one stone.
At £13.25 from Boots, this isn't the cheapest of polishes around, but I personally think the price is warranted. It's going to last me a while and anything that makes painting my nails the enjoyable task I've always wanted it to be, get's my vote.
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On another note, Honest Burgers (Brixton Village/Soho) is a great London burger restaurant that gets my recommendation. Their burgers were juicy and full of flavour and their house chips with rosemary salt were the stars of the show. They don't take bookings however, and are very popular so I'd recommend some strategic pre-planning if you want to go.
What did you get up to this weekend?
I've seen those rapid dry polishes and wondered about them. I've started using shellac though, it could help you with your nails because it lasts a few weeks gives them a change to grow without breaking.
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livinginaboxx
Hey! I just found your blog and started following after the lbloggers chat tonight on twitter :)
ReplyDeleteI've been looking at OPI topcoats for a while and I'm torn between this one (I'm very impatient and get easily distracted so rapid dry makes sense) and the strengthener one. I got a chanel nail polish from my little brother for christmas and I find it chips off really easily so I need a good topcoat.. how do you find this one for chipping?
Hannah xx
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That burger looks amazing! I'm still trying to find THE best one to have in London :) xo
ReplyDeleteHonest burger looks seriously amazing. Probably even more so because I can't have bread at the moment (silly thing to give up for Lent!!!) I've also recently succumbed to a winter cold- SO annoying, I've done so well at not getting ill recently!! x
ReplyDeleteAnd Alice, I cannot tell you how much I wish I had an honest burger right now!
ReplyDeleteI'm just about to sit my fat ass down on da couch to watch the tourist. I have a glass of iced water and a bowl of muesli.
BURGER PLEASE.
Take care darling. Xxx
ooh the burger looks so good!
ReplyDeleteI've recently discovered brixton village! Must check Honest Burgers out :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post :)
Rachel
xo