The 24-piece Ciaté London tiny Mani Month set ($59; a $199 value)
There are so lots of pretty, pint-sized bottles of nail polish in the utterly charming Ciaté London Mani tiny Month set, and they’re all leading me to completely fail at my attempt to NOT hoard things.
From the left: Raspberry Collins,Rom Com Rouge, tiny file and Purple Rain-Bow
From the left: Hutch, Pom Pom, double Bubblegum and Heirloom
There’s a long-running joke among my Filipino friends and I that Filipinos are hoarders, and, well…at least in my family, it’s absolutely true. Seriously, my folks never get rid of anything! On a trip home a few months ago, I found this one cheesy poster that hung in my room when I was a teenager. pertained to find that it had been living in my parents’ garage for a lot more than 20 years!
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I tend to hold on to things a long time, too, but I’ve been working on it. I recently read Marie Kondon’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, which has a lot of great tips, but it’s hard to resist the urge to hoard everything under the sun.
Especially when faced with something as hoard-worthy as this 24-piece set…
Knight in Shining Armour, Cutie Pie, miracle on 24th and Bloom Bloost
A List, Chalet Chic, Cookies & cream and birthday Blue
Originally, I planned break up the Ciaté London Mani tiny Month set, which is set up like an development calendar, with 24 little products hidden behind closed “doors,” and give them to the ladies in my life as Christmas stocking stuffers.
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It comes with 19 tiny 0.17-oz. nail polishes in…
Heirloom, a duochrome with purple and gold
Check Mate, a monochrome with square glitter
Pom Pom, a coral
Cutie Pie, a sheer pink
Snow Globe, a holographic glitter
Ahoy Sailor, a turquoise
Life’s a Peach, a peach
A List, a duochrome purple
Double Bubblegum, a lilac
Raspberry Collins, a fuchsia
Birthday Blue, a chrome blue
Miracle on 34th, a golden glitter nail topper
Shady Lady, a gunmetal chrome
Purple Rain-bow, a purple holographic glitter
Dangerous Affair, a deep red
Prima Ballerina, a greige
Hutch, a classic red and
Cookies & Cream, a cream nude
(2) bottles of Chalet Chic, a holographic white loose glitter nail topper
Szintén…
A 0.42-oz. full-size bottle of Rom Com Rouge (a red glitter)
A 0.17-oz. tiny bottle of nail gym nail Strengthener Treatment
A 0.17-oz. tiny bottle of Bloom improve nail Illuminator Treatment
A 0.17-oz. tiny bottle of Knight in Shining Armour Overnight nail Mask Treatment
A tiny Glass nail File
Check Mate, Shady Lady, Snow globe and nail Gym
Ahoy Sailor, hazardous Affair, Life’s a Peach and Prima Ballerina
But the thing is just so darned cute that I don’t want to break it apart, and whoops! — a few of the shades inadvertently ended up on my nails. how the heck did that happen?!
These are some of my favorites…
Ahoy Sailor
Life’s a Peach
Pom Pom
Raspberry Collins
Rom Com Rouge
Other than the colors, I also like the large brush and the shiny finishes. and the formula, which dries fairly swiftly (only takes about five minutes), holds up reasonably well. I wore Ahoy Sailor, the creamy light blue shade, with a base coat for a couple days earlier this week, and it did OK. I saw a small chip on one of my nails at the end of the second day, which isn’t a great sign, but I spaced out and forgot to apply a top coat, so that may have contributed.
I haven’ used Ciaté London polishes before, but I anticipate mediocre wear time without the help of a base and top coat. The brand is based out of London, and their formula is complimentary of formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin, dibutyl phthalate and camphor.
The outside of the box…
Have you used Ciaté London polishes before? What do you think about the brand?
Doors unopened!
When you open up the doors, there’s quotes inside
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If you frequently find yourself battling the temptation to resist hoarding massive appeal product sets, be careful around this one. It’s available now at Sephora and online for $59, which is $2.46 per item. Not bad in any way considering that Ciaté London’s minis normally choose $8 each.
A barátságos környéki fellebbezési addict,
Karen
