Pages

Showing posts with label Ciate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ciate. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 July 2010

Nail Glam O'Boy + a bit of Ciate + animal testing

In this weather this polish passes for mannequin hands as my skin takes on the colour of a Dickensian street-urchin after a hard day rifling through the city's effluent


I'm very fond of Pop Beauty products
Just scored a Glow & Highlight by them which I'll show you tomorrow



C0cked-up and had to do what I do - add a coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust
See how I much of this I use. This is with added Seche Restore. You may deduce something about the level of c0ck-uppery that occurs in my nailiverse from the declining bottle-contents.

Oh, a postscript on Ciate Sienna
Had more chips after 24 hours than you'd expect to see on a Friday night down Harry Ramsden's.
Not just that!
Bigger chips than they put in a pack of McCain Frozen Rustic Giganto-chips for Registered Fatties.

Tomorrow?
POP Beauty 2 products
Illamasqua 2 products
Calvin Klein 1
Lancome 1

Not all nail stuff

See ya
Jen




Sunday, 11 July 2010

Ciate Sienna + animal testing (not suggesting that the 2 are linked btw)

Under normal circumstances I wouldn't buy a polish from a range named after slebs (overpaid and underworked airheads for the most part) but this was £3 from asos. So there go my principles. See them? Fast fading into the distance. They'll be back.


It's a good colour. Greyish. Mauve-ish. Purple-ish. Generally rather on the -ish edge of the spectrum.


Brownish.


With a bit of added -ish.
This is 2 coats after 24 hours of wear.
I like it.

Animal Testing.
I can't say much about this other than that I deplore it. Kind of a "duh" statement.....
I really had assumed it no longer goes on. But Green Fairy brought it up in a comment yesterday with reference to Rimmel. I have 3 dogs. I may love my nail varnish but I love animals far more and if the nails have to go naked then so be it. I plead guilty to ignorance of this issue. I will have to rectify this forthwith. So my question is this?

A Does it bother you that cosmetics companies still animal-test?
B Do you want me to do a load of research (thanks, google) and publish my results?
C Do you want to do your own googling with reference to your own stash?
D Please don't leave comments that support/argue the case for animal-testing for cosmetics because I've done the devil's advocate thing in my own little head and I can't find a single valid reason in favour of aforementioned testing. I'm not remotely sentimental about animals but if they need guinea-pigs for cosmetics then they can ask me. If I have to suffer in the cause of vanity then so be it. I don't see why a chimp, beagle or rat need suffer on my behalf.

Watching dear little baby birds from my window and feeling guilty about my cavalier disregard for the welfare of critters

Jenni