{"id":12287,"date":"2013-05-10T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T02:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=12287"},"modified":"2013-05-20T12:23:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T04:23:51","slug":"covo-cosmetics-maldives-3-free-nail-polish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2013\/05\/covo-cosmetics-maldives-3-free-nail-polish\/","title":{"rendered":"Get In-Trend for summer nails and channel the ocean with Covo Maldives 3-Free nail polish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was introduced to a new local (Malaysian) brand of cosmetics yesterday known as Covo Cosmetics<\/strong> and while I have my reservations about getting excited over a new player in the market without quite knowing how long it’ll be hanging around for, I must say I have been quite taken by the few items I’ve seen. After all, for a brand to succeed, they do need our support, don’t they? \ud83d\ude42 But I’ll tell you about it another time.<\/p>\n I wanted instead to very quickly share about one specific item that had me zeroing in on it as if my gaze was hooked by a tractor beam. It was the Covo nail polish in Maldives and if you have been following the nail colour trends for Summer 2013, you will understand why I singled this one out for special mention \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Covo Cosmetics is the first local brand to have a range of nail polishes that are 3 Free. What this means is that they are free from the 3 ingredients most believed to be toxic –\u00a0formaldehyde,\u00a0toluene\u00a0and\u00a0dibutyl phthalate\u00a0(DBP). I was pleased to see this because the other big brand available locally that is well known to be 3 Free is Butter London (available now at Sephora stores) and they cost almost double what Covo nail polishes do!<\/p>\n Oh yes, did I mention that Covo offers us luxe for less in that the nail polish is just RM29 (under US$10)? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I wanted to show you Covo Maldives\u00a0<\/strong>right off the bat because the summer 2013 trend for nails appear to be this interesting iridescent shade of peacock\/aquatic blue-green. You may have seen it in Chanel (Azure) and Dior (one half of the Samba nail duo).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Granted, the colours are not all 100% the same (stock photos and actual photos do differ) but they all fall in the same colour family which means you can now get on trend, even on a budget! \ud83d\ude00 I can update this post to show a comparison between Samba and Maldives in the next day or two, but I don’t have Azure so we’ll just have to imagine it \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I very quickly applied it on nails to let you have an idea what it looks like. A bit messy because I’m a klutz and proceeded to smudge them halfway. But I hope it gives you an idea of how pretty the colour is.<\/p>\n