What my nails are wearing #1

I'm a big lover of nail polish. It's hard sometimes to keep my hands looking nice (I work on a farm - hello dry hands covered in dirt and grime, cuts and grazes!) so I always try to keep my nails looking nice. Most polishes won't last the week so I change my polish most Sundays, if I haven't removed it prior to that! I can't take chipped nails for long...

As I adore done up nails so much, I thought I'd share the nails i'm wearing at the moment, Rita Ora's collaboration with Rimmel in colour 203 Lose Your Lingerie:

It is a lovely pearlised pink (very very light pink). I love light polishes like this, especially if they have that hint of sheen in them.

Note this does not dry in 6o seconds as the bottle might lead you to believe... More like 5-10 minutes. It also is not a one coat polish (as the bottle also tries to tell you). The above picture is 2 thick coats... and I'd still go another one (plus a top coat).

Just to give you an idea of the polish after 1 coat, here is a pic:



Overall it is an okay polish. I love the colour, but there are a few downsides to it. Firstly, the lasting power is not great. 2 days in and i'm already chipping. It also has an odd sized brush - it makes it a little difficult to apply. It also desperately needs a top coat, to keep it shiny and not so matte (for me, lighter colours tend to look a bit white-out-ish if they aren't shiny!). I have another Rita Ora polish which I haven't tried yet, but this polish didn't exactly make me want to try it out in a hurry!

On a side note, why is it that as soon as your nail polish has dried it turns out you need to open a plastic packet, or pick something open? Why oh why?

What do you think of this polish? What are your wearing on your nails at the moment?