Globalti
Legendary Member
Nipped in to my local Boots to buy a bottle of red nail varnish for touching up paint chips on my Roubaix. I managed to get a small chip of paint (it's very thick and brittle) off the dropout, stick it to some sellotape and take it along. The young assistant helped me with enthusiasm, going off and fetching different colours and dabbing them next to my sample. She was very kind about it, I think she half believed I was a tranny.
Got home all agog to try it and..... far too dark! Damn! So I took it back the next day and got an older assistant who started by giving me one of those appraising looks then declaring that "we don't normally change cosmetics!" She definitely thought I was a tranny at first but I'd taken along a plastic Sigg bottle top in almost the same shade so in the end she relented and helped me choose a much paler more orangey red and did the till exchange thingy.
For anybody contemplating the same, she told me that bigger branches of Boots carry a much wider variety of shades.
The result? The wet paint looks a little paler but once it has dried it's a perfect match and once you've built up a few layers it's hard and glossy, just like the original. I bet the formulations are similar actually.
It was expensive though; around a fiver for something like 8 ml. What a rip off!
Anyway, thank you, girls!
Got home all agog to try it and..... far too dark! Damn! So I took it back the next day and got an older assistant who started by giving me one of those appraising looks then declaring that "we don't normally change cosmetics!" She definitely thought I was a tranny at first but I'd taken along a plastic Sigg bottle top in almost the same shade so in the end she relented and helped me choose a much paler more orangey red and did the till exchange thingy.
For anybody contemplating the same, she told me that bigger branches of Boots carry a much wider variety of shades.
The result? The wet paint looks a little paler but once it has dried it's a perfect match and once you've built up a few layers it's hard and glossy, just like the original. I bet the formulations are similar actually.
It was expensive though; around a fiver for something like 8 ml. What a rip off!
Anyway, thank you, girls!
