Evening!
I recently discovered Simply Nailogical's YouTube channel, and before anyone says it - yes, I know I'm late to the party but I've binge-watched hours worth of her videos in the last 2 weeks to make up for it.
I've never been too mad on doing my nails or watching tutorials of stunning girls (or stunning boys, lets not assume any genders) doing some tiny intricate nail art designs, mainly because I bite my nails when I'm stressed so they always look stubby, but also because I just don't have the patience or precision for it. Since discovering the always hilarious and relatable Cristine however, a fire has ignited within me for holographic nail polishes and peel-off base coats. As the fire in my belly grew over the past two weeks, so did my
I got to Northumberland Street, slipped into Superdrug, and I suddenly felt an all-too familiar sensation come over me... "go on, treat youself... you deserve this". I hadn't done anything worth a reward, but haway, once the thought is in your head, we all know it's too late to stop it. I wandered over to the Sally Hansen display and I saw sitting there the holy grail: Sally Hansen's NO CHIP, SUPER ACRYLIC PROTECTION Top Coat. It was priced at £4.75, and it seemed like a dream. You don't get much stronger than acrylic when it comes to nails, and as for 'No Chip', all of my problems were solved.
I rushed home from work and painted my nails a royal blue colour with a silver holographic glitter accent nail, then put on this all-singing all-dancing top coat. I made sure to not do a single thing until it was completely dry: we're talking almost an hour, I wasn't about to take any risks.
Next morning, as I was brushing my teeth, I held up my nails to the light to examine my handiwork* and noticed that every single nail had multiple vein-like cracks running from the cuticle to the tip! Absolutely dumbfounded as to what I'd done to cause this, I went to work, bearing in mind that I have an office job, which is hardly strenuous on my hands - within 3 hours of being there, I noticed that on two of my fingernails, large chips in the middle of my nail had completely flaked off. By this point, the polish had only been on for around 15 hours and I was fuming.
By the time I returned home from work, the majority of the nail polish on several of my fingers had come clean off, and it looked worse than any regular nail polish would look without the top coat after about 4-5 days. Just in case there was something that I had done which had caused the nail varnish to chip off so quickly, or if perhaps it was the blue polish underneath which hadn't mixed well with it, I tried again with another polish I had. I tried to do the thinnest coat I could possibly do in an attempt to give it a fighting chance, and this time around the polish stayed on for a full 24 hours before it started chipping off. Wow, what a drastic improvement (!).
The one and only use I've found for the crappy top coat is putting it on my nails before I go in the shower - if there's anything I've learnt from Cristine, it's how fragile your nails become if you shower when they're bare, so the crappy top coat has now become a strange pre-shower habit. I suppose it's better than showering with a pair of marigolds on!
Generally, Sally Hansen is a great brand for all things nails and has a superb reputation for dishing out top-notch products, so I was really disappointed that I not only wasted money in buying this, but also that I wasted my time in applying my other beautiful new nail polishes. Do yourself a favour and on this occasion spend your money on something else instead - may I suggest one of these Barry M Molten Metal nail polishes?
That's all for now x
* Pun absolutely intended.
Bloody love it! X
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