Rimmel Lash Accelerator

Hello again! I felt compelled to write a post about the Rimmel Lash Accelerator mascara. It's been available in stores now for a couple of months and after seeing Zooey Deschanel on the display I had to try it. Zooey Deschanel is a style icon to me. I pretty much want to be her....hahah. She's gorgeous. Rimmel did a smart thing by making her their spokesperson. CoverGirl is doing a similar thing by featuring Taylor Swift in their ads/displays. Man...their products will probably sell like crazy now. A lot of people love Taylor Swift.

New Rimmel display featuring Zooey

Another display with Zooey :)

Anyway, let's get on to the review. First off, the packaging is really nice. My favorite color is green so the neon green on top of the black really stood out to me. The brush is great because it has actual bristles...not the weird plastic-y applicators that I see so much of. I find that the natural bristles really grab my lashes better. On the Rimmel website they claim your lashes will "look up to 80% longer, but then after 30 days of continued use, they’ll appear up to 117% longer!" I will definitely agree with the first part of that claim! This mascara lengthens your lashes like crazy. As far as volume goes...not so much. However, it really grabs onto every little lash making them look fanned out and full. The formula was a little wet for my liking though, but after about a month of use it was less wet and I liked it a lot better. The next part of Rimmel's Lash Accelorator claim is that after 30 days your lashes are 117% longer. Well, me and boyfriend have a long standing joke with this because how can something be more than 100%? Isn't 100% complete? I guess they are trying to say if your lashes were completely as long as they could possibly be they will now be 17% longer than that...? I don't know!? But anyway, so after about 4 to 6 weeks of continued use I could tell me lashes were stronger. I noticed less lash loss and some of the smaller lashes towards my inner eye were growing in. I think it was most noticeable on the bottom lash line. I personally don't think it "grows" your lashes, but rather strengthens them...thus allowing them to grow. I would definitely purchase this mascara again, but I'm also curious to try the L'oreal Million Lashes mascara. If anyone has tried that let me know what you think of it!

Rimmel Lash Accelerator packaging

Rimmel Lash Accelerator mascara wand

Revlon Top Speed Nail Polish

Hi again! I can't stay away from blogspot! It's just too addictive. This time I want to talk about a Revlon nail polish I bought at Walgreens the other day. As you know, I work at Walgreens so I actually put together the Revlon Top Speed nail color display. I get first dibs on all of the colors! hah...Well, a little side note, I'm in the process of applying for jobs and interviewing with companies so I'm trying to stay away from crazy nail colors. I normally wear a lot of purple, hot pink and coral. This time I had to pick a nice neutral color that I could wear to interviews. It's time for me to be practical! I picked the color Sheer Cotton, but I was soooo close to buying Lily or Jaded. I have to admit, Revlon makes some of the best drugstore products. I have a lot of their nail polishes and I was curious to try out the Top Speed nail polish line. I think this is a line that's been around for a while, but they may have revamped it with new colors. The Top Speed nail polishes are about a dollar more than the regular Revlon polishes. I think the price difference is due to the fact that the Top Speed polishes dry extremely fast and supposedly have a built in top coat. I painted two coats of Sheer Cotton the other day without a top coat and they were already beginning to chip by the end of the day. This time I painted three coats and did an additional top coat using an OPI top coat. We'll see how that holds up!

***Update: I worked all day long and was really rough on my nails...yet not a single chip! Good polish, but use a top coat.

Revlon's Top Speed Sheer Cotton. A very pretty neutral color

Revlon Top Speed display

My Revlon nail polish collection

From left to right: Revlon Liquid Quick Dry, Revlon Top Speed Sheer Cotton, Revlon Grey Suede, Revlon Power Walk Pink, Revlon Bubble Gum, Revlon Passionate Fruit, Revlon Rock (purple, not blue) Revlon Plum Night
As I mentioned I love Revlon products and their nail polishes may be the main reason why. My Revlon polish collection mainly consists of limited edition colors so I don't know if you can find all of those colors, but I figured I'd share anyway. I love how Revlon always keeps up with nail color trends and I love the size of their brushes. The colors all go on so smoothly and dry without bubbling.
So, because I am going on job interviews and trying to look more professional I went through my nail polish collection to try and find some wearable work polish. This is what I came up with:

Work Appropriate Nail Polish

From left to right: Sephora by OPI Dear Diary..., Revlon Sheer Cotton, Revlon Grey Suede (I actually wore this on an interview last week), Rimmel Steel Grey, Rimmel Sweet Heart, Rimmel Promiscuous, Maybelline Timeless Pink, and Maybelline Timely Rose.
I personally think nudes, mauves, greys, and light pinks are great for work...but let me know if you all agree that those are work appropriate colors.