Reader's question and request - Rimmel's base coat

LightPinkPearl asked me some questions about the Rimmel London Base coat.

I did my nails today again, and applied the base coat again. 

She asked me how the color turnout was. Unfortunately the color does not show at all, so I did not even take pictures, because you'd see a nail with clear polish on. It's like I would have applied a top coat. No difference in appearance. So if you wanted to buy the base coat because of it's color, I suggest you don't. It applies like a clear polish. The little shimmer's that you could see in the bottle are not visible. Even if applied 2-3 coats, it's a clear polish. 

Her other question was that does the nail polish have any bad ingredients such as toluene or formaldehyde. And I do not have an answer to that. The nail polish bottle does not have an ingredient list. Rimmel London's webpage does not have an ingredient list for this nail polish. I looked at my other Rimmel polishes and they don't have ingredient lists either, on the bottles at least. Okay, shouldn't there be mention of the ingredients?  Isn't that in the law? I looked and looked the bottle over and there is nothing. They only mention the polish is "Enriched with calcium and keratin." In five different languages. 

My Orly nail polishes say they do not have toluene, formaldehyde or DBP in them. Rimmel's polishes make no mention about these or any ingredients unfortunately. Safest bet would be to try Orly, or some other brand that clearly states the polish does not include these ingredients.

Nail polish haul and review. Fruity smelling polishes.

I bought a few nailpolishes a while ago...

I got Rimmel London's new fruity smelling nailpolishes. I only found two of the four polishes - Apricot Punch and Cranberry Zest.

The nailpolish smells like nailpolish when it's wet, but when it's dry it's a very fruity scent. It's quite strong actually. On the first day it gave me a little headache, but the next day it was better, smelled less strongly. 

The two colors I have smell different, but not by much. I put one color in one hand and the other in my other hand, except I switched the polishes around for my ring fingers.

I don't like Apricot Punch, the peach one. It doesn't look good for my skin tone. I'm too pale. Cranberry Zest is way better. and it smells nice, though they smell very similar.

Under the color polishes I put this, which is also a new addition to my nailpolish collection. Until now, I've just put a layer of topcoat under a color polish, but now I purchased an actual base coat polish. It's "double duty", it is a base coat and strengthens and protects nails supposedly.

I bought a top coat to go with it. Also by Rimmel London. It's an ultra shine top coat. So far, I haven't thought of it to be more shiny than any other top coat... I've used this a lot after I bought it, but not on top of the fruit smelling nail polishes at all.

On another trip I bought two Models Own polishes, but I can't find the better, the gorgeous blue one. I think I must have forgotten it at my boyfriend's place, cause I had it there with me. 

Anyways, this green, Jade Stone, is gorgeous, but looks horrible on me! :(

Have you tried these? What do you think of them?