I have always been a fan of barely-there nail color. So when I read about mannequin hands from here, I looked at my badly-bitten-mummy nails and rummaged through my little bag of nail polish bottles.
Old bottles of Sally Hansen polishes were found! Ack! I was then happy and so I hurriedly buffed my nails. To my dismay, I opened each bottle only to find out that they are already sticky. I refused to believe that adding nail polish remover will only ruin them more, and so I was wrong... I added nail polish remover to improve their consistency, well, at the start it was all good, but it got thicker and thicker and achieving a uniform color in all fingernails was impossible. I colored, removed, recolored, and all were disappointments.
Until the weekend came and I had the chance to go to Suntec City Mall.
After lunch with ex-colleagues, Sheila and I looked around for Essie, but couldn't find the brand. In the end, I settled for The Face Shop, nail base coat and BR801.
Not a fan of The Face Shop nail polishes, my first color from them was a dark violet and I had a hard time using it. It is just watery, at least for me. I brushed this off, thinking that they have probably improved. So wrong, still the same, watery consistency, I have to apply the color 5x! End result is less streaky but hey, who would want to waste time coating 5x! Since my nails are still awfully short and ugly, this will have to do. But the moment that I grew them a bit longer, I'd find that Essie.
Or probably just go back to Sally Hansen. They weren't that bad. In fact, I have loved all their pinks and nudes, just that I hope they are less shimmery. And lesson learned
again
to never put nail polish remover to revive bottles of polishes again.
I can't believe I tried adding this on all of my Sally Hansens.
I bought this bottle solely because I
envy
like the hand.
