Rimmel Matte Finish Topcoat

This topcoat is one which has been in my collection for ages but it's woefully underused because I often forget just how much I love the effect it creates until I use it again.

 

A while ago now it seemed like almost every brand was bringing out a matte top coat, keen to try the look I picked up a bottle of this Rimmel Matte Finish topcoat in Superdrug to see what the hype was about.  I decided to go with the Rimmel as it was significantly cheaper than the other versions I had easy access to at the time and I didn't want to shell out on something I wasn't sure I would use much.

 

In the end that was a good decision because although it's one of the less expensive versions on the market (it's £4.49 in Boots or Superdrug) it works beautifully for me.  It does exactly what you would imagine a mattifying topcoat would do, gives whatever polish you put it over a lovely suede matte look to it.

 

It can really transform the look of your polish and it's so simple, you just slap it on like a regular clear topcoat and wait for it to dry.

 

For today's manicure I simply put a layer over my camouflage manicure from Monday.

 

 

I love how this turned out, it's only a subtle difference but it really adds to the camouflage look and makes it look a bit more authentic, although I'm not sure a city dweller with camouflage nails can ever be authentic, but I'm sure you know what I mean. ;)

 

 

 

I've been rather lax with my blogging this week for no real reason other than I rather fell in love with my camouflage nails and didn't want to take them off and all the exciting beauty and nail things I have ordered recently haven't arrived yet.

 

I'm off to Spain to visit my parents next week so hopefully the polish haul from that trip and the parcels due to arrive will mean more interesting posts in the near future!

Camouflage Nails

 

 

I decided to try this look after a friend's son asked to see some Camouflage nails.  I did a quick Google for inspiration and decided it should be simple enough so gave it a go.

 

I think the most important part of this look is choosing the right colours, obviously camouflage colours vary depending on environment and who is wearing them but there is a general look and set of colours which seem most common so I decided to stick with them for my first attempt.

 

I originally chose 4 polishes but after applying the first three I though it was best to stop, here's what I used:

 



Kiko 349, Kiko 347, No7 Beanie 20 and Bourjois Noir de Chine 17 which didn't make the cut.



First I applied the lightest shade, Kiko 349, all over my nails then I used a dotting tool to add random blobs of Kiko 347 over the top, it's surprisingly hard to get blobs to look totally random, I found.

 

 

Next I added No7 Beanie over the top, some of the blobs I overlapped others I just put beside the darker green shade, again, it seemed hard to make it look random and stop myself making a pattern.

 

 

At this stage I was going to add further black blobs on top but I decided it might be a step too far and rather than ruin the effect I had already created I decided to go with a 'less is more' mantra and just tidy up what I had so far.

 

Here are some final picture, post clean up:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overall I'm pretty pleased with how this turned out, I quite fancy trying the blue version at some point, despite not really knowing why or where you would use blue camouflage material.