The hunt for Kiwi-made nail polish
Home » Blog » Sarah Marquet » The hunt for Kiwi-made nail polishThis week's dilemmas: nail polish and paper.
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I've had a wee dilemma this week. I ran out of nail polish.
I know some of you will be thinking, "That's rubbish, surely she can go without?" Well, it's no ordinary nail polish. It's Manicares' Intensive Nail Hardener, and it's the only thing I can find that stops my nails chipping, splitting and breaking all the time. Even if I keep them short and well trimmed, they break easily and it's even more painful when they're that short.
So what should I do? Spend the rest of the year with hideous nails or—unless anyone knows of a good New Zealand-made alternative—cave and buy the polish that's made in France?
This also got me thinking, what happens when I run out of things like eczema cream and Panadol? There must be some home remedies that I can whip up using stuff from the garden, but I Googled for ages and couldn't find anything that I haven't already tried and failed with.
I was stoked to find that refill paper is made here though. I had been looking for paper for ages, but totally overlooked the Warwick brand, made by Croxley, thinking there was no way it would be made here. Thankfully, though, it is.
The Croxley website lists the country of origin as New Zealand, even says it's a 'New Zealand icon'. If so, why do only the loose-leaf refill pads and the 50-cent notebooks say they are made in New Zealand? Are the other products not made here? If manufacturing has moved offshore, is it okay to buy? After all, it is a New Zealand icon and I need to get paper from somewhere.
Fortunately, I don't really need more than refill paper, except for the paper used by the printers at Uni. I still have to pay for printing at Uni, butI don't directly purchase the paper, or ink for that matter, so does it count? The answer's probably yes, but at this stage I don't see a way around it.
Mon March 15, 2010 @ 09:45 AM
