***Update 10/20/11***
I ended up taking my polish off last night. I was sitting on the couch last night watching TV with the husband and I started peeling off my polish. Good thing about this, I didn't have to use much polish remover since a majority of the polish came off in 1 piece. Bad news, I think I'll eventually go back to shellacking. It's offered in about every nail salon now so I know that I'll be paying about half the price than what I was back in 2009. I'll just have to keep them up. Every 2-3 weeks up.
***Update 10/19/11***
I have had to fix 3 nails. Fix in a good way that I feel the polish is doing it's job. It's the kind-of fix where I think there's too much top coat being applied & I've been able to literally peel the entire polish surface off of my nail without using any nail polish remover. So I still feel that we're doing good here. On day 4. Yay!
I have been on a mission lately to have nice nails again. The only problem is they start chipping within a few days & it's driving me bonkers! So I've been trying to do my research on finding a great base & top coat. I've been to
Beauty First and they recommended OPI's start-to-finish and I've been using that & it's been working relatively well. The polish will last 3-4 days before you really see some good chips.
Next I was on one of the many blogs I follow,
The Small Things Blog, and I read all the comments and decided to try Sally Hansen's products. Here is a picture of my nails after less than 1 day.
All I did that day before I looked down and saw how chipped my nails were getting was go & get my brows waxed and went to the library. Besides getting Harrison in & out of his carseat, didn't do too much else. Now my nails are in water a lot during the day with cleaning cups and such but these did not last long at all. I will not be using these products again!
Products used here: Sally Hansen Hard as Wraps Powerful Acrylic Gel base coat, Chanel Peridot, then finished with Sally Hansen No Chip Acrylic top coat.
Now I'm on to my next plan of attack. After the whole Sally Hansen failure I went to
Sally Beauty Supply. The woman recommended Orly for my base coat and then Seche Vite for my top coat (the entire name of the products are listed below). So far so good as you can tell by the picture below. I will be applying the top coat every night as a preventative and even an oil for nail beds so I can keep my nails and fingers from drying out from the dish washing and such.
Day 1
Products used here are: Orly Bonder Gel base coat, OPI You Don't Know Jacques, then finished with Seche Vite fast drying top coat.
I will keep you posted on how well these new products from Sally Beauty Supply last. If these don't work I may just have to bite the bullet and start doing shellacking again. Not that I didn't like the gel shellacking before, it's just a lot of upkeep outside of the house with having to get them done every 2 weeks and once baby girl get's here, I just won't have as much time for that as I would with being able to do my nails at night from the comfort of my own bed.
