Random nail polish opinions
Oct. 27th, 2023 07:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yuuago- If someone tells you that a polish doesn't need a basecoat, they're BSing you. I don't know about you, but if I want something to keep looking nice (or at least acceptable) until the end of the week, basecoat/topcoat is a must.
- Sally Hansen sucks. All their polish, and even the basecoat/topcat, stains my nails a horrible shade of orange. Could just be my body chemistry interacting with it weirdly, but man, I'm never buying this stuff again. (That's what I told myself last time...)
- OPI Infinite Shine basecoat+topcoat is pretty nice, but if you try to use it with their regular formula polish, it interacts weirdly and chips like hell. I'm going to use up the one Infinite Shine formula polish that I have (+ the basecoat/topcoat), but I own too many in the regular formula to even consider making the switch.
- "Natural" polishes ain't worth the trouble if you want it to look nice for more than a day. They chip if you so much as look at them funny.
- Shellac has its place, but I personally can't stand it. Anything that takes that much effort to remove is something I don't have time for.
- If I had to pick one shade out of all of the ones I own, top of the lot, "If you could only wear this one polish and no others" - OPI Kyoto Pearl is it. Both classy and classic but never boring; goes with everything; looks great all week. Yeah.
- Sally Hansen sucks. All their polish, and even the basecoat/topcat, stains my nails a horrible shade of orange. Could just be my body chemistry interacting with it weirdly, but man, I'm never buying this stuff again. (That's what I told myself last time...)
- OPI Infinite Shine basecoat+topcoat is pretty nice, but if you try to use it with their regular formula polish, it interacts weirdly and chips like hell. I'm going to use up the one Infinite Shine formula polish that I have (+ the basecoat/topcoat), but I own too many in the regular formula to even consider making the switch.
- "Natural" polishes ain't worth the trouble if you want it to look nice for more than a day. They chip if you so much as look at them funny.
- Shellac has its place, but I personally can't stand it. Anything that takes that much effort to remove is something I don't have time for.
- If I had to pick one shade out of all of the ones I own, top of the lot, "If you could only wear this one polish and no others" - OPI Kyoto Pearl is it. Both classy and classic but never boring; goes with everything; looks great all week. Yeah.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.
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Date: 2023-10-29 04:35 am (UTC)...People paint their nails without putting on base coat? Won't it stain horribly? (Then again, I learned that from experience when I painted my bare nails dark teal in middle school.)
Sally Hansen is not good, though staining was not among the issues I had with them. Could be a YMMV thing, could be that American Sally Hansen is formulated differently. With the weak color payoff and the weird consistency, it would honestly make the experience so much more enjoyable just to invest in one or two more dollars per bottle for OPI or Essie.
On that note — I have a few bottles of OPI's normal line, but have not tried the Infinite Shine series. How different does it perform compared to the normal line? Is it any good?
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Date: 2023-10-29 03:28 pm (UTC)Typically I get 5 days of wear out of regular OPI, though; it gets chippy just in time for the weekend, which is when I'd switch the colour out anyway. So, we're talking 5 vs 7 days.