Ruby Hammer Nail Polish

Nail Polish from Ruby Hammer Recommends Total Colour Set 

Ruby Hammer nail polish leaves you with bold, even colour and seriously sassy nails. This shade was from one of her Total Colour Gift Sets [complete with lip gloss, eye shadow etc...]

The first thing you'll notice with this nail polish is the strange [but not necessarily unpleasant] smell of cherries and/or almonds when it's wet. It's pretty unusual but personally, I much prefer it to that same old acrid smell you get with just about every other nail polish on the market. It's almost edible...if you like that sort of thing.

This pink-red shade in particular is great, because it not only has 2 very subtle variations on the shade to give a deep colour; it has a subtle glitter element. Nothing too aggressive, just a nice added sparkle to it. It's super pretty when it catches the light and gives it that lovely freshly painted look. 

However, it chips. My god, does it chip. But then let's face it, all nail polishes do to an extent. As lovely as the colours from her nail collection are, Ruby Hammer could really have done with spending some more time working on the durability of this product. 3 coats, and a layer of clear gloss, and it stays on for the best part of a week provided you don't do anything to 'hands on' [you know - nothing more than doing up the zip on your jeans...]

If it's not gift sets you're after, then it also comes with The Ruby Hammer Nail Collection itself; 7 shades in purples, reds, pinks and a clear glittery little number that I'd advise coating whatever colour you're wearing with. While the polishes are all lovely hot shades, they're not for practical ladies or anyone who values the ability to do manual work whilst looking good. Nights out, presents for friends and experiments with new nail colours? Those are the sorts of thing that this product is best suited to. Vibrant and sexy, but alas, not the solution to chipping.

Ruby Hammer Recommends Gift Sets and Nail Collections are around £10. They can be found on Amazon, in selected Debenhams stores and quite often on eBay.

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