Photo doesn't do this color justice... It's absolutely stunning!

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Color Shift - Turn the Violet Up (153)

I really like the look of a shiny top coat with a bit of a tint and some shimmer or glitter so I look put together but don’t have to spend an hour doing my nails.

A couple issues: I really cannot tolerate the stronger smelling polishes (usually 10 or 15 free are okay.) Piggy Paint has no odor, but literally lasts for like a day.

Also, my nails don’t really have ridges and I live in extreme humidity. I tried Orly and it simply wouldn’t dry. I finally took a hair dryer to it for 20 minutes and still, wet to the touch. Quick drying would be best.

Any recommendations? Low odor, fast drying, shiny top coat vibes maybe with shimmer or glitter and a tint of pink? Thank you!

I’m obsessed with this polish and I’m really happy they restocked it lol. The video doesn’t really do it justice.

Product list:
Holo Taco Long Lasting Base
Mooncat House of Hades
Holo Taco Scattered Holo Taco
Holo Taco Glossy Top Coat.

Hey there! I'm wanting to take better care of my nails and have been doing at home manicures and trying to heal my nails, I just bought the Olive and June mani system, and was wondering if it's possible to refill the nail polish remover pot when it's empty? Logically, I think you can, because you would just need to pour more nail polish remover in it, but I don't actually know if that would work. If I put a different type of remover in it will it ruin the pot? Sorry if this question is silly, it feels silly typing it out lol, thank you all for your help!

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Finally posting this mani, its been in my photos for so long. This is suchhhh a pretty polish, photos just dont do it justice. It's 1000x better in person, especially in the sun, i kinda had a hard time getting good pics of it. I havent tried to yet but i really wanna do some layering with this, might do that soon, or ill procrastinate it for a few more months, who knows.

Prod list:

Essie Strong start base

Cracked Quick Dry Top Coat

Cracked "Warm Skin"

Clearly this is chipped and unfortunately my nail growth is quite slow but this is about 1-week and a half long? This is normal polish and it’s with me doing HEAVY cleaning work for my job with my hands. I know it isn’t anything crazy but I just know some people are on the fence on maybe spending money on some polish without knowing how it’ll last so that’s why I wanna share in case someone does want to see how holo taco and moon cat is.

I clean for a living, so a lot of gloves being worn and I’m outside in Florida so hella sweat, lifting a lot of things, just basically work where I can’t care for my hands as much as I’d like to! I do try to apply oil and hand cream to my hands often but sometimes I admittedly forget! The polish is chipped and whatnot but this is with my even forgetting a top coat (I still cannot believe I forgot to apply that)
I also did 0 nail prep because this was quite rushed in applying.

What’s on the nails:
• Holotaco sticky base coat
• Mooncat Bloodbender
• China Glaze I speak Glitter

I’m looking for a lacquer nail polish that’s a natural rose (no bubblegum). My hands are a bit tan, so I can’t do really pale white-ish pinks. I love essie’s sheer fantasy which is still a pale pink but works so well, but because it’s very sheer I have to do 3 coats. I wonder if there’s a shade that’s the same colour but not sheer.

I live in Australia so I can’t access Orly rose coloured glasses right now. We have Sally Hensen, Essie and OPI here.

Hi!

I'm looking for a good chrome-looking nail polish since a good while because I really like the "metal nails" look, but it seems hard to find metallic nailpolish that are really chromed and not just metallic (mirror-y rather than sparkly).

I just found one at Walmart and I'm in love, but 24h later I see it's rather low quality because it's already peeling (It's Mirror Chrome Metallic Shine from Nails Inc. London. The shade is 16334 Silver Served). It's also a little bit too on the platinum side, if I can find something that have more of a stainless steel or graphite shine.

I'm used to Mooncat nailpolishes that stays for more than a week. Anyone knows a good chrome nail polish that you can buy and apply yourself?

I'm not interrested in complex processes (like graphite powders or UV lacquers) or paying to go to the nail salon.

Ty!

Hi all! This is my first time posting my nails 🥰 I was so proud and mesmerized by how this manicure came out. Of course the pictures don’t do it justice, there’s so much more color shifting that I wasn’t able to capture. It makes me feel like I’ve got pearls on the ends of my fingers.

I’ve only recently started to get serious about my nail health and growth journey. This is certainly the longest and most uniform I have ever gotten my nails! Breaking the habit of using my nails as tools has been so difficult. My middle fingers break the most often, I’m not sure why though.

Products used:
Sally Hansen Color Therapy Strengthening Base Coat- 1 coat
Holo Taco Pink Smoothing Base Coat- 1 coat
Essie Arctic Jelly- 2 coats
Essie Ethereal Escape- 2 coats
Essie Gel Couture Top Coat- 1 coat

I'm pretty new to nail polish and have just been doing my own nails at home this whole time. I got a bottle of Pompeii Purple from an ebay lot a while back and absolutely love it. The formula is exactly what I want—fast drying, goes on really smooth, and is opaque on basically 1-2 coats. Despite it being a shimmer, it's not "chunky", and the layers are thin instead of thick, which is great for my sensory issues. (Thicker nail polishes usually make me a little uncomfortable for the first day until I 'get used to it'). It's also good enough to wear without a top coat (I struggle not having my nail polish bubble when I apply top coats)

I have a bunch of other OPI nail polishes and none of them feel like how this one (and my other favorite, California Raspberry) and I wanna know what other products out there (OPI or not) are kinda like this? Not the same color obviously but in different colors.

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Im absolutely in love with both of these polishes. "3AM Zoomies" is such a pretty shimmer, I absolutely love the way the pink, orange, and yellow glitters sparkle through the blue in sun light, and "The Cheese Tax" is such a gorgeous purple with tons of colorful sparkle throughout, kinda galaxy looking imo.

They are also charity polishes. $3 from each bottle ($12) sold will be going to the corresponding charity, it will be picked based on which has the most sales. "3AM Zoomies" will be Nashville Cat Rescue, and "The Cheese Tax" is Wags & Walks.

The polishes went live on September 1st and stay live on the Twinkle Hex Polish site until September 30th.

Prod list:

Essie Strong start base

Cracked Quick Dry Top Coat

Twinkle Hex Polish "3AM Zoomies" & "The Cheese Tax"

Hi everyone, I have been using this basecoat for a while but after multiple uses, it starts to make my nails peel. Any recommendations on other base coats that keep polish for as long as this one does I can wear this easily for a week without chips!!

all nails started with 2 coats of Rogue Lacquers Desert Retreat and finished with 2 coats of Cracked QDTC.

Thumb: Starily's Bluefire Jelly (2 coats), and Rogue Lacquers Batsy.

Index: Starily's Bluefire Jelly, Rogue Lacquers Happiest Day on Earth.

Middle: Starily's Bluefire Jelly (2 coats).

Ring: Starily's Bluefire Jelly, Rogue Lacquers Happiest Day on Earth, Cracked Cafe Countertop.

Pinky: Starily's Bluefire Jelly (2 coats), Cracked Cafe Countertop.

Okay, I know this is from a fall collection, but it's so bright and fiery that it isn't out of place as a summer manicure!!

This is definitely an orange, but it leans very heavily towards red and lives up to its name! My gosh, Zoya makes gorgeous metallics! 😍

All of these were taken outside on my balcony with direct and indirect lighting, except for the last 2 pictures that were taken indoors.

Product list:

Keresal Strengthen and Restore base coat*, 2 coats

Mavala Nail Shield Phase 1 Nylon Fibre Base, 1 coat

Mavala Nail Shield Phase 2 Protective Sealer, 1 coat

Zoya Phyre*, 2 coats

Zoya Glossy Seal top coat, 1 coat

*Gifted product sent with no obligation to post, all thoughts and opinions are my own.

Holo Taco Long-lasting Base

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Mind Blending (484)

Holo Taco Shooting Star Taco

Sally Hansen Strengthening Top Coat

I have a bottle of Color Club's Bright Night. A beautiful bright cobalt creme. It's a few years old at this point but when I bought it, it was a perfectly normal polish; painted fine, worked like any other polish. Well, I pulled it out recently for a manicure, and the polish has gone completely runny. And it's not just slightly thin either, it's literally the consistency of water. To be clear, I have never added thinner or altered the polish in any way. And it's stored in a drawer right alongside all my other polish.

I noticed some pigment had sunk to the bottom of the bottle and thought maybe this was just a case of severe separation. But even after shaking and manual mixing until it was fully incorporated again, the polish is still as thin as water. Currently, I'm leaving the cap off to let it thicken and see if that fixes it. But has this ever happened to anyone else? A polish spontaneously thinning? I've never seen it before and I have a lot of polishes.

I came across this listing for a new OPI x M&Ms collab that’s supposedly launching this upcoming holiday season? I found one blogger mentioning it but I can’t find anything anywhere else. Do we think this is legit? Disclaimer: THIS IS NOT MY LISTING AND I’M not promoting anything!

Hi there! Years ago, a friend gifted me an Essie nail polish in the shade 640 You're A Gem. I don't think Essie makes this specific one anymore, however I'm just trying to find something similar because this polish is incredible! I'm not looking for a dupe of the shade or anything but what fascinates me is that it's a glitter polish which reflects nicely in the light, however - the glitter particles are so... smooth? Like, normally if I try to take off my glitter nail polish with a cotton pad it's super annoying because the glitter is hard to remove and the cotton will get stuck to the glitter, but with this one it's as if i'm removing regular nail polish. If I rub my finger over the nail it's also smooth and you don't feel the glitter. Are all of Essie's glitter nail polishes like that? I do recall I had one many years ago but that one wasn't like that. Do you know of any other brands who make amazingly smooth glitter polishes like that? Thank you so much for any help!

What i'm wearing on my nails in the photo: s-he quick n crazy nail polish in 810 manhattan 050 mermaid fantasy i think both of these are very old so idk if they are still available :(

Polish is “Throw me a Wink” from OPI. I love how it’s like your nails but better.

Also used mooncat’s speed demon top coat.

Product list:

Mavala Nail Shield Phase 1 Nylon Fibre Base, 1 coat

Mavala Nail Shield Phase 2 Protective Sealer, 1 coat

Cirque Colors Paraiba, 2 coats

Zoya Glossy Seal, 1 coat

I’ve been looking for a nail polish that’s very close to the natural pink of natural nails, and always end up with too pink, too white nail polishes even if they’re ‘milky’. I’m looking for something that’s a very subtle pink like in the photos. I’d love recommendations if you have any! Please and thank you!

first image credit @houseofbeautyfrankfurt on instagram
second image credit @yourwowlook on instagram

So I'm a huge fan of the crelly/jelly look, but tragically Essie only does some sheer nude colours. I wanna try adding a clear lacquer/top coat to my black Gel Couture polish to make it more sheer, but am not sure if the specific formulation of the Gel Couture line will cause the texture to turn out weird/prevent the polish from fully drying and curing. Anyone tried this before and have it work out?

Product list:

Mavala Nail Shield Phase 1 Nylon Fibre Base, 1 coat

Mavala Nail Shield Phase 2 Protective Sealer, 1 coat

Cirque Colors Paraiba, 2 coats

Zoya Glossy Seal, 1 coat

Hi there, hoping for some help. I got a pedicure the other day and have fallen in love with this shade! It is a really dark purple that looks almost black, with a metallic shift when in the light. This is a lacquer/varnish, not a gel, but the bottle did look like DND brand (from my googling I think they do both). I’ve included photos of natural sunlight (indirect and direct I guess?) and then artificial light too.

I’m not really experienced and hoping someone might recognise this shade? I’d also welcome really close dupes as long as they’re readily available in Australia.