Late final week I discovered a set of Dashing Diva Gloss Gel Nail Strips once I was searching for a brand new set of faux nails to placed on (sure, the group of my nail stuff is an ongoing difficulty). I would had a couple of too many nails pop off from set I used to be carrying so thought why not attempt the strips. These aren’t going to finish up on the ground of another person’s home the best way my pretend nails had the opposite week (twice on the similar celebration, even). I put them on late at evening at dwelling, so please forgive the wonky lighting in these subsequent a number of pics. This set is named Gleam Queen and has largely lilac creme strips, with three completely different accent choices: purpley pink microglitter, silver microglitter, and lilac and pink “stained glass” with white main.
The instructions for making use of these are much like my beloved and lengthy discontinued Sally Hansen Salon Results nail polish strips: prep the nail, select a dimension, easy from base to tip when making use of, file off extra. Elimination is completely different: these may be peeled off somewhat than needing nail polish remover.
I did lilac on most of my nails, with silver glitter as an accent on my ring finger. Compared to the nail polish strips, these are thicker, feeling form of rubbery. That is good in that it makes them simpler to deal with: they do not tear or flop over onto themselves the best way the very skinny polish strips can. That is unhealthy in that it is tougher to easy them out on the edges (my pronouced C-curve makes that tougher) and tougher to take away the surplus on the tip (overlook in regards to the sides … you’ll be able to’t lower these with the sharp finish of manicure stick like you’ll be able to common polish strips). You may see some little wrinkles on a few my nails and a few fuzziness on the ends the place I had bother submitting them smoooth. The set does include a reasonably good sized one-sided file to make use of, however I nonetheless had bother. The glitter strips have been thicker than the plain ones, which meant they regarded higher since they did not kind these wrinkles on the sides and camoflauged irregularities in my nails higher than the plain strips.
Within the gentle of day the following morning, I wasn’t tremendous pleased with how the plain strips regarded, what with the wrinkles and the exhibiting of each ridge beneath. The ridges aren’t so apparent on this picture as they have been to the bare eye. I additionally observed some “fuzzies” caught on the ends of some nails, possible clinging to the adhesive on the bits of strips I would struggled to file off the evening earlier than.
Since I preferred the glitter nail, I made a decision to simply put accent strips over the plain strips. A lot better.
There weren’t any thumb-sized accent strips, so I simply laid one of many stained glass ones down the middle, hoping that will distract from the wrinkles on the sides. It regarded fairly good, I believed.
I’ve now had them on for six days. There’s been some slight lifting of the strips on the suggestions and corners of some of my nails, maybe due to the double thickness. The stained glass ones on my center fingers are exhibiting essentially the most raggedy-ness, in all probability as a result of I are inclined to bump these fingers into issues extra since they’re longest.
I would use these once more, simply persist with glitter units somewhat than plain ones, or do a ridge filling base coat first, although I do not understand how that will have an effect on their sticking energy.