Late final week I discovered a set of Dashing Diva Gloss Gel Nail Strips once I was on the lookout for a brand new set of faux nails to placed on (sure, the group of my nail stuff is an ongoing challenge). I might had just a few too many nails pop off from set I used to be sporting so thought why not strive the strips. These aren’t going to finish up on the ground of another person’s home the way in which my faux nails had the opposite week (twice on the identical social gathering, even). I put them on late at evening at house, so please forgive the wonky lighting in these subsequent a number of pics. This set known as Gleam Queen and has largely lilac creme strips, with three totally 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 measurement, easy from base to tip when making use of, file off extra. Removing is totally different: these will be peeled off fairly 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 way in which the very skinny polish strips can. That is unhealthy in that it is more durable to easy them out on the edges (my pronouced C-curve makes that more durable) and more durable to take away the surplus on the tip (overlook concerning the sides … you possibly can’t minimize these with the sharp finish of manicure stick like you possibly can common polish strips). You’ll be able to 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 had been thicker than the plain ones, which meant they appeared 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 subsequent morning, I wasn’t tremendous pleased with how the plain strips appeared, what with the wrinkles and the displaying of each ridge beneath. The ridges aren’t so apparent on this picture as they had been to the bare eye. I additionally seen some “fuzzies” caught on the ends of some nails, seemingly clinging to the adhesive on the bits of strips I might struggled to file off the evening earlier than.
Since I favored the glitter nail, I made a decision to only 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 might distract from the wrinkles on the sides. It appeared fairly good, I believed.
I’ve now had them on for six days. There’s been some slight lifting of the strips on the ideas and corners of some of my nails, maybe due to the double thickness. The stained glass ones on my center fingers are displaying 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 might use these once more, simply persist with glitter units fairly than plain ones, or do a ridge filling base coat first, although I do not know the way that might have an effect on their sticking energy.
