Furless Cosmetics Nail Polish Review

A little while ago I received some beautiful nail polishes from the Australian brand Furless Cosmetics. Furless is a cruelty free and vegan make up brand and their nail polishes are long wearing, fade resistant and is free from toluene, formaldehyde, carmine, and dibutyl phthalate. It's a fantastic brand and I was very excited to review for them.

Furless Cosmetics Nail Polish

The four nail polishes I received are Clouded and Blah from the Discrete Collection and Baby Cakes and Attention Seeker from the Fun Times Collection.

First of all, let's have a look at how beautiful and unique the bottles are. They're amazing! I think they look very expensive and high end, even though the nail polish only retails for $12! Very clever packaging.

Furless Cosmetics Baby Cakes

Baby Cakes is this bright sky blue and part of the Fun Times Collection.  It's such a vibrant nail polish that's perfect for bright sunny days. It looks like such a fun colour and this is my perfect shade of blue. I used two coats for the swatch and the formula is very easy to work with, it just glides onto my nail.

Furless Cosmetics Attention Seeker

Attention seeker is the second polish part of the Fun Times Collection. The whole collection consists of 5 colours: a blue, purple, pink, green and red. This is a pink toned purple, leaning more magenta. In the photos they look more pink than in real life. It's another incredibly bright in your face colour. I used 2 coats for this swatch, and although you can see my nail line in the photo, I couldn't see it in real life. The formula, again, was amazing.

Furless Cosmetics Blah

The first one from the Discrete collection is Blah.  I love the discrete collection. Nude or "Discrete" shades are my favourite to wear all year round. Although I love my brights, I'm more likely to grab a subtle shade. I think Blah is the perfect name for this polish, it is a bit blah! I feel like it's an ugly pretty colour. It's a very pale green khaki type of colour. A year ago I would have hated these types of shades, but I can't get enough of it!

Again, I used 2 coats of this polish, it's a little bit more opaque than Baby Cakes and Attention Seeker. It's very unique in my collection but it reminds me of OPI's Stranger Tides, which I don't own.

Furless Cosmetics Clouded

Finally is my favourite: Clouded. I think I have fallen in love! I don't own many greys and I have no idea why not! This is beautiful! When I wore it I couldn't stop looking at my nails. Who knew a grey could do that?!

I used three coats for the swatch, but with careful application you could get away with two. The formula was just as great as the other.











I love the colours I was sent, they're so gorgeous!! And look at the bottles. It's such a unique bottle, it'll stand out in any collection. The nail polishes retail for only $12, which is very cheap here in Australia. And the quality you get is fantastic. I definitely recommend this brand, not only because of the great nail polishes, but also because they're cruelty free and Australian made.

OPI Haul

OPI is my favourite brand (tied with Kester Black). I first started getting into OPI last year when I found out they had a Holland collection. Seeing as I'm Dutch I had to get my hands on the whole collection… obviously. Every since then, I fell in love. Now OPI is the brand I have the most nail polishes of.

Living in Australia is pretty expensive, regular retail price for OPI here is $20. I know if I convert that back to pounds, it'll be the same as what they're sold for in the UK, but $20 for ONE nail polish is a bit excessive! Another thing you need to know about me, I rarely pay full price for anything. I will do anything and everything to find discounts, so that's exactly what I do for OPI's. I found a stole in Melbourne that sells OPIs for $10! Score! Most of them are from older collections, and they don't have a huge selection to choose from, but I have found some amazing colours there including Just Spotted The Lizard, Pink Friday and My Very First Knockwurst. 

Anyway this post isn't about that haul, this is about a haul from eBay. Buying OPI's from eBay can be a bit risky, there are a lot of fakes online so in the UK I always steered clear of that, but desperate times call for desperate measures. I did a lot of research on how to spot a fake OPI (which I'll blog about later), but I found a few sellers that sell the real deal: Alwaysyouthful, Jojammy1 and becc1874. 

My recent order is from Alwaysyouthful. The nail polishes retail for around $11.50 and shipping is $6.95 and stays that price no matter how much you order. I ordered the following nail polishes: 

Koala Bear-y, I Saw…U Saw… We Saw… Warsaw, Nein! Nein! Nein! Ok Fine!, I Love Applause, Baby Please Come Home 

The OPI names seem to be getting longer and longer! I will be reviewing each nail polish individually and will compare them with similar colours. 

Kester Black Architecture in Helsinki 2

This is part two of the Kester Black limited addition nail polish where I'll be showing you 4EVA. The collection is a collaboration with the band Architecture in Helsinki. Their new CD is called NOW & 4EVA, and that's what the two limited addition nail polishes are called. If you want to see swatches of NOW, click here.

4EVA is a beautiful bright pink colour, not quite neon, but almost there. Like I mentioned in the previous post, the new Kester Black nail polishes have a new wide brush, which makes application very easy. However, the formula of this nail polish wasn't as fantastic as NOW. With NOW I could easily get away with just applying one coat. It had great opacity and wasn't streaky at all. For 4EVA I ended up applying three coats, and even though the nail polish was very smooth and even, it wasn't as opaque. After three coats I could still see my nail line, which was slightly disappointing. It wasn't very obvious, and the super easy application kind of makes up for it.

The colour isn't as unique as NOW either, the photo above compares it to Kester Blacks Dragonfruit. They look identical. Sometimes I feel like Dragonfruit looks slightly darker, but that could just be me trying so hard to see a difference I just make something up. The brush is different though. Dragonfruit has the original brush, and 4EVA has the new thick brush.

Kester Black Architecture in Helsinki 1

Kester Black is my favourite brand (tied with OPI). The unique thing about Kester Black nail polishes is that they're 100% Australian made! Not only that but they are also 5 free, cruelty free and vegan. All in all an amazing brand. They retail for $17 each and are definitely worth the price. All the polishes I have tried - I own 16 - are extremely opaque and have great colour pay off.

In this post I will be discussing the first new limited addition polishes for Architecture In Helsinki. This collection contains two nail polishes: NOW and 4EVA, the title of Architecture In Helsinki's new cd. They're an Australian indie pop band, and the only band my boyfriend and I BOTH like. That doesn't happen too often!

NOW is a vibrant medium sky blue. It's such a beautiful colour and very unique in my collection. The only similar looking colour I own is OPI No Room For The Blues but that's a little darker and much more muted true blue, whereas NOW leans more towards cyan. The photo doesn't show the difference is colour as well as I'd like.

The new Kester Black nail polishes have a new type of brush. It's a thick flat brush so it makes application very easy. For the swatch to the right I used two coats. As I applied the first coat I noticed quite a bit of streakiness, but as it dried that evened out nicely. With careful application you can easily get away with applying one coat, I decided to add a second coat anyway. The result is beautiful, I took the photo when the nail polish was completely dry and didn't use a top coat. You can see how shiny it is!!

I would say this is more of a spring/summer colour and seeing as it's autumn in Australia right now I won't wear it as often. That being said, I am super excited about this colour and because of the easily application it'll be a great colour for my travels!