Color Changing Nail Polish

Over the past 12 months my daughter has stopped biting her nails and has become somewhat obsessed with nail polishes!   When she announced last year that she wanted to go and get tips put on I said no (she was only nine), but told her that I’d do a French manicure on her nails if she grew them a little bit.   She did and the nail polish wants have grown from there!

When I found a bottle of OPI Black Shatter and brought it home for her I think I won mother of the year and until a couple of months ago she wanted the whole OPI Shatter Nail Polish Collection, now she’s discovered something else – color changing nail polish.

A friend of hers was given a bottle of this color changing nail polish that changes from pink to purple and according to a very excited daughter on the drive home from school it ‘really, really works – we tested it mum!’

Apparently they ran cold water over the nails and it turned one color and then they went outside in the sun and held her hands up and it changed back.   I can’t remember exactly which way around it was but the two colors were pink and purple.   The next time we went shopping dd wanted to show me the bottle and dragged me into the cosmetics shop in the mall, we were looking along the nail polish when a girl who looked a couple of years older than dd asked if we were looking for the color changing nail polish.   It turns out she was trying to convince her mother that absolutely everyone had the nail polish.   Her mum ended up buying her a bottle while I looked at them with my daughter and said well you’ll have to bring your money with you next time!

Before you condemn me for being such a mean mother I should mention that I popped in there a couple of days later and brought the one she was after as her birthday is coming up soon.