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| Sally Hansen Gel Shine 3D Top Coat $11.49 at CVS Greenwich (cheaper anywhere else) |
I have completely given up on nail polish with color...love it for the first 24 hours until the chips and nicks kick in. I use the same shade, Essies Pinking Up the Pieces, week in and week out. Exciting? No. But I can get through an entire week, with a coat of top coat or two, without looking like I worked on a sword boat.
I am blessed with nails like granite. A few years back, I gave into the gel nail craze out of the desire to have perfect, glossy, chip free nails. Unfortunately, they also reduced my natural nails to the thickness of rice paper. A failed experiment that took 6 mos. to reverse.
I spotted Sally Hansen 3D Top Coat on a CVS run. Normally, I use Nailtiques Formula #2 as my Holy Grail. (Though it should be sold with a hospital mask, the Formaldehyde fumes might be fatal.) This seemed a good idea; wouldn't it be nice to have that beautiful glossy shine, without having to bake my nails and then destroy them?
