When your little girl comes to you and says, ‘mummy, I want nail polish, just like you’, do you feel proud or all mushy inside or does your heart sink?

Things are not so straight forward when you have a gluten free kid. Nail polish, like a gazillion other things, can contain gluten. Nails, are on your hands, and you use your hands when you eat bla bla etc, so nail polish must be gluten free. You cant just go out and buy a nail polish and hope for the best. You can google obviously, and you will find TONS of lists online saying which brands are ok, but if those results are over 6 months old you have to consider the fact that the recipes may have changed. I tend to google for companies that have proper gluten policies, rather then just one product thats gluten free. You could also go for one of those companies that specialise in making only gluten free products, but the truth is that they are expensive, and do other girls and women want to have just 1-2 companies to choose from? Obviously not.

So we went shopping, for lipgloss and nail polish. I already knew I would go for essie with the nail polish and I was hoping to find a lipgloss once there. Armed with my google results and my smart phone we found 2 awesome people in the makeup shop who helped us with the lipgloss, we ended up with a Loreal one that cost well over 100dhs/zloty. No cheap barbie stuff for this little girl! haha.

As a parent its important to me that my kid doesn’t feel super different, in the case of makeup (which she will absolutely not wear fully until she is in her teens thank you very much) it means mummy has to help, that she cant have one of those beauty pouches from the toy shop full of glitter and raspberry flavoured stuff. Thats ok. Putting on some lipgloss and wearing nail polish every now and then is part of growing up, so I will buy the right stuff and thats that.

In our family everything is ‘the right stuff’. All our soaps, shampoos etc are gluten free. Always.

People are always asking me to make lists of the stuff we use. The truth is Im not so comfortable with this, because information can change so fast, and if someone used something because I said its safe I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night! So just remember when you check something, don’t trust just one source and make sure the info you are getting is current. If you have questions pop them on the blogs facebook page and ask, or ask here 🙂 I also pin LOADS of body and house stuff on my pinterest boards.

-Linda