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Today’s blog post is brought to you courtesy of one of my favourite bloggers ever – London MakeUp Girl. At some point I must have mentioned the fact that I wanted to try Rescue Beauty Lounge but that I was really reluctant to pay the extortionate shipping costs (but hey, you get free international 
shipping if you spend over $200….yeah right). Anyway, the upshot of this is that I am now the proud owner of three gorgeous RBL polishes that Grace decided would be happier with me.
What an awesome gift, and one for which I am extremely happy and grateful. Anyway, as any of you who watch Blackadder will know, no-one likes a gloater, so on to the polish.
I’m not entirely sure when Grunge first appeared on my radar. I mean, yes, in the 1990s with Pearl Jam and Soundgarden and a lot of the bands that I still listen to today, but in this instance I mean Grunge the nail varnish. I think it was released around the same time as I started devouring nail blogs and it came up time
and time again on various sites I was reading.
What can I say – it just called to me. It’s my kind of shade. Kind of beige, kind of grey, kind of mushroomy. Call me uninteresting, but if I could only wear one type of shade for the rest of my life, this would probably be it. I can’t even really explain why I like it so much as I know to a lot of you, this is going to appear really boring!
I’d heard a lot of things (all good) about RBL’s application. To me, this was just ok. But remember, I have big nails, so what works like a dream for a lot of people often doesn’t cut it with me. Yes, the consistency of the polish is beautiful and you can certainly tell it is a quality product from the way it simply flows onto the nail, but I struggled a little bit with how skinny the brush is. It took me about six swipes to cover one nail whereas normally I manage with three. (less with an OPI pro-wide).
Grunge required four coats. I could have got away with three but I wanted to make sure that this is really opaque as I wanted to wear it for a few days and any hint of bald spots or VNL just drives me mad. I got a weeny bit of dragging when I reached the tips but I think this is because it dried faster than I was expecting it to. Still, only a real eagle eye would be able to tell this so it’s the mini-est of mini complaints.
So – what do you think? Does anyone appreciate it as much as me? I love the fact that it is kind of murky and I suppose a nude with an edge to it. A lot less boring than all the mannequin hands everyone was sporting a few weeks ago, and I really love it. So thankyou again to London MakeUp Girl for helping me realise a lemming – this really is a nail varnish I never really thought I’d own so you can imagine how happy I am.
Now, I’m off to remember my teenage years by playing Pearl Jam’s “Ten” at full volume!
Helen
i just dont get the appeal of these colours at all. Sorry!
Well I’m kind of with Britny, but I’m really glad you like it 😉
I think it’s an excellent greige, but it didn’t work on my pale olive hands, it’s a lot nicer on your more pink based skin. I prefer Nubar’s Sandstone on me.
I now have a few of these e.g. Nails Inc Jermyn St and I like them. But I tend to have one conservative paw and one wilder one. I couldn’t do both hands like this.
Or put a top coat over with some attitude. CG Fairy Dust? I do that too. Or different layers on different nails.
But this one doesn’t stand out to me. I’m happy with my Hansen Pure Putty, Bourjois Beige Glamour and Eyeko Nude et al….
Very pleasant but I wouldn’t be doing cartwheels. Watermelon Rind merits acrobatics IMO but not this. Sorry.
Not my scene, but I’m fast reaching the conclusion that nudie polishes never will be…
I’m with you Helen, as I love all these greige / taupe / edgy neutrals. They’re muted but not blah, and constitute a new kind of chic. I’m so jealous that you’ve got this one, all the Rescue Beauty Lounge polishes on US blogs are just there to torture us!
http://www.hqhair.com/nails/rescue-beauty-lounge/nail-polish
found this whilst browsing not the whole range but its a start xx
That’s a great colour on you. I like greige shades, they seem to suit my skintone and I find them a lot more interesting than really peachy nudes.
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Love it! Its very similar to Leighton Denny Supermodel which is one of my all time favourite colours!
I’m a big greige/taupe fan and think it looks nice on you, I hadn’t noticed the small brush but I have smaller/shorter nails. I have Grunge, but untried. I picked it up in the recent RBL half price sale (thanks to a friend in the US whose sister carried them back for me). I need to do an update of my greige comparison and Grunge is in the box awaiting swatching. And I think I’ll have to cave and get Supermodel too.
Love Grunge on you. I own this one and love it. I don’t care for the mannequin hand look either. I hope RBL has a half price sale again. There’s a few more that I’d like.
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