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How to Get a Non-Toxic Manicure: Kapa Nui Nails

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Review: Kapa Nui Nails is a non-toxic
We love a pretty manicure, but it is hard to justify using chemical-laden polishes. So we were delighted to find a line of natural and lovely polish shades.
They are safe for everyone: kids, pregnant women, even persons with cancer. And when paired with their special Base and Top Coat Sealer, these colors stay on until you take them off, even with constant hand washing. Meet Kapa Nui Nails.

Kapa Nui Nails are a safe alternative nail range inspired by the vibrant shades of Hawaiian beaches.

Kapa Nui Nails Is Safe For All

It is not that we don’t use a well-placed chemical within beauty, but when possible, we always try to find other options. Especially on our hands.

These vibrant pretty Hawaii inspired shades are safe for all. They are kid-safe and pregnancy safe.

  • Toxin-free
  • PETA Certified vegan
  • cruelty-free
  • Eco-friendly

These polishes are made from carbon, nitrogen, and water. It degrades back into naturally occurring forms of these elements. No plastics or polymers.

Kapa Nui Nails are alternative safe for everyone, including pregnant women, kids, and people with cancer.

The Range

Inspired by the Beauty of Hawai’i

The range includes 33 polish shades. There are sand tone nudes, ocean blues, greens and teals, and vibrant pinks and purple orchid shades.

We tried the Starter Set. It contains:

  • Three Starter size bottles (9ml) of your favorite colors.
  • Kapa Nui Base & Top Coat (15ml)
  • Kapa Nui Remover (1 oz)
  • Manicure Sticks x5
  • Re-usable Remover Pads x5
  • Custom cosmetic bag

Kapa Nui nail polish shades

We tried three Big Island-inspired shades:

We tried three Kapa Nui shades

Kapa Nui Hawaiian Inspired shades

Kapa Nui Pua Melia

Pua Melia is a soft-matte pink with a cream finish.

This semi-sheer is buildable to semi-opaque in 2-3 coats. One coat is a creamy pale.

Pua Melia

Two shades with a shell tone pink. Pua Melia (right) and Seashells Heart (left)

Seashells Heart

A lustrous pastel pink with pearly shimmer. Evocative of the pink hue inside of conch seashells.

Seashell Hearts is the pearliest of these three shades

Seashells Heart

Kapa Nui captures the pink vibrant hue seen inside queen conch shells

Sweet Wahine

Sweet Wahine is a creamy violet with some sheen but not pearly or shimmery.

Kapa Nui Sweet Wahini

Sweet Wahine

Evocative of Hawaiian orchids

Base & Top Coat Sealer

The sealer is key to a long-lasting, high-performance manicure. This dual functioning layer provides tight adhesion of your color layer as a Base Coat and as a Top Coat Sealer, gives your color longer life with 2 to 3 times more chip resistance.

For a long-lasting, gel manicure look, apply Base & Top Coat Sealer in thin layers and let set for 60 seconds before applying 1-2 coats of color. Seal with a final top coat.

There is no odor.

Sweet Wahine, Pua Melia and Base & Top Coat Sealer

Non-Toxic Nail Polish Remover

A cruelty-free gel that contains no acetone or alcohol.

The gel formulation is suitable for travel and there is no unpleasant odor.

We like the fine pen tip nozzle for post-polish application clean up jobs.

Kapa Nui Polish Remover is an odor free gel formula

Kapa Nui Polish Remover is especially formulated to remove Kapa Nui polishes

The Kapa Nui Nail polish experience

Kapa Nui polishes are odor-free and they wear like a gel or lacquer.

The shades are vibrant

Kapa Nui swatches in the shades Seashells Heart, Sweet Wahine, and Pua Melia.

The brush applies a smooth, even coat.

The brush applies evenly without skipping or errant bristles


 

About Kapa Nui Nails

We want all women to know they do not need to sacrifice health for beauty. – Kapa Nui

Many brands come from a beauty background. But Kapa Nui Nails has a health background.

One of the founders is a board-certified OB-GYN with a long career focused on empowering women in their health care choices.

Launched in August 2019 a line of clean and green nail polish and products that delivers what health-conscious polish wearers are looking for:

  • toxin-free polish
  • products that do no harm to people or the environment.

We developed alternative nail products that are safe for everyone, including pregnant women, children, and people with cancer. Working with our highly accomplished chemist, we developed a full line of nail products including our curated color palette, inspired by the Hawaii we love.

Hawaiian Inspired Beauty

Where to Find Kapa Nui

Find Kapa Nui products at https://www.kapanuinails.com

Kapa Nui polishes


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The Kapa Nui Starter Set was submitted to Style Chicks for consideration purposes. All opinions and experiences are 100% our own.

Why Caley Cosmetics Beach Babe NATURAL EYES Eyeliner is Special

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It’s National Watermelon Day! And Caley Cosmetics, creators of COLOR WAVE NATURAL LIPSTICK, have done it again, this time with an Eyeliner.  BEACH BABE NATURAL EYES Eyeliner is a smudge-proof gel that contains natural ingredients to treat and enhance lashes, one of which is eyelash enhancing Watermelon Seed Oil. Plus it comes in 14 pretty shades.
BEACH BABE NATURAL EYES Eyeliner

Caley Cosmetics BEACH BABE NATURAL EYES Eyeliner

About BEACH BABE NATURAL EYES

These long-wearing, smearproof, and waterproof eyeliners come in fourteen versatile shades. We got to try several of them. We found they don’t tug on delicate eye skin yet blend easily.

Caley Cosmetics Beach Babe NATURAL EYES Eyeliner Beautiful Shades

The liners are creamy but blend like a gel. It is non-irritating when applied in the waterline.

The colors are:

Colors we tried

  • Jetsetter: black-brown/espresso
  • Midnight: matte black
  • Twilight: black shimmer
  • Moonlight: charcoal
  • Playa:medium matte brown
  • Tahiti: dark royal/navy blue
  • Bohemian: vivid grape
  • Jungle: deep forest/moss green
  • Dragonfly:deep plum/metallic aubergine
  • Sunset: bronze/medium brown metallic
  • Mermaid: teal shimmer
  • Unicorn: lilac shimmer
  • Starry Eyed: creamy white highlight

These formulations are not only clean, but are made without water. Let’s take a look at these ingredients:

Ingredients

Watermelon Seed Oil contains eyelash-enhancing linoleic acid

These Caley liners are packed with natural ingredients that not only are safe for the delicate eye area but encourage healthy, lush eyelash growth.

Watermelon Seed Oil

Watermelon Seed OilWatermelon Seed Oil is an outstanding antioxidant and highly nutritive oil. It is high in unsaturated fatty acids, such as linoleic and oleic acids.

It has antioxidant activity and the vitamin E compounds that protects skin and hair from oxidative stress and photo-aging. It also contains essential proteins, vitamins, and minerals to enrich skin. It absorbs quickly. [1]

Castor Seed Oil

Castor seed oil is a humectant

Castor seeds

Castor Seed Oil is a humectant that keeps lashes soft, lush and healthy.

It reduces lash breakage. It also reduces inflammation, heals scars and hydrates.

Sunflower Seed Oil

Sunflower Seed Oil

Sunflower

Sunflower Seed Oil is hydrating, nourishing and an excellent “supporting” oil base [2].

It reduces hair breakage, hydrates and conditions lashes keeping them lush and healthy. It reduces lash breakage.

Rosemary Leaf Extract

Rosemary Leaf Extract encourages hair growth.

Rosemary also stimulates and promotes better blood circulation to deliver the nutrients necessary to build collagen, elastin and to encourage scar repair.

Abyssinian Seed Oil

Abyssinian Seed Oil is lightweight and absorbs easily. It contains linoleic acid, which is the predominant fat in skin cells.

It forms the lipid barrier that holds moisture in cells, which keeps skin or hair hydrated.


Papaya Seed Oil

Papaya

Papaya

Papaya Seed Oil is high in linoleic and Behenic acid. Behenic acid prevents hair breakage to keep lashes lush and long.

Candelilla Wax

Candelilla Wax is a vegan substitute for beeswax with similar properties. It works well with other waxes for improved product consistency and to raise melting points without chemicals.

Mango Fruit Extract

Mango

Mango

Mango Fruit Extract is a humectant that is high in copper, which supports healthy lash follicles.

Mango serves as a long-lasting emollient. Rich in fatty acids, it is perfect to keep lashes hydrated. Hydrated lashes resist breakage.

Hibiscus Flower Extract

Hibiscus

Hibiscus


Hibiscus Flower Extract promotes collagen for lash growth because it contains Vitamin C.

Vitamin C also treats skin along the lash line, reducing find lines, scars, and eczema.

Pineapple

Pineapple

Pineapple

Pineapple Fruit contains fruit extracts that are effective exfoliants to sloughs off dead cells on the surface of the skin that may impede lash growth.

Jasmine Oil

Jasmine

Jasmine

Jasmine Oil supports lash elasticity by preventing elastin degradation.

It is high in antioxidants.

What it does NOT contain

Paraben-free and formulated without any synthetic pigments or unnecessary chemicals.

Caley signature packaging

What We Love

We particularly like how this liner does double duty as a waterproof liner and lash enhancer. Castor oil is well known to condition lashes, but it is so thick that it is often difficult to apply it directly to the lash root or not inadvertently get it into the eye. But when castor is in an eyeliner, it works out perfectly to enhance lash growth and as a long-wearing eyeliner.

Caley liners are highly pigmented gel-like formulations

Caley liners are highly pigmented gel-like formulations

About Caley Cosmetics

“All of our natural beauty products are developed and made in a family owned & operated green beauty facility. We test every clean cosmetic product endlessly until we can guarantee our cruelty-free makeup brand delivers healthy skincare benefits for optimal performance.”
••• Caley

WHERE TO FIND IT

Find Caley Cosmetics Beach Babe NATURAL EYES Eyeliner Caley at

https://caleycosmetics.com/products/eye-liner

Caley Eyeliners

QUESTIONS?
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Have any questions about Caley Cosmetics Beach Babe NATURAL EYES Eyeliner? The Style Chicks are here to answer them.

REFERENCES

  1. Tarek A. El-Adawy and Khaled M. Taha (2001). ”Characteristics and Composition of Watermelon, Pumpkin, and Paprika Seed Oils and Flours” Agric. Food Chem. 49 (3): 1253-1259. doi:10.10217
  2. Lopez Perez G, Torres Altamirano M. Indications for sunflower oil concentrate in the treatment of atopic dermatitis. Rev Alerg Mex. 2006;53(6):217-25.

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Caley Cosmetics Beach Babe NATURAL EYES Eyeliners were submitted to Style Chicks for consideration purposes. All opinions and experiences are 100% our own.

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