Nail Polish Discussion - Any Brand

[honey on boost]

Man it feels like it's been a long time since I've visited this thread. I'm trying so hard to stop buying so much and using what I have more than once. It's so hard! I'm tempted by the new doors but I feel like I have so much that they aren't unique enough. :/

Loving the new Revlon polishes, especially the smell on this one.

Love the bottle!

Just saw swatches of the China Glaze Sea Goddess collection and they are gorgeous! Might just need all 6 of them! :hot: http://www.swatchface.com/2013/12/china-glaze-spring-2014-sea-goddess.html

These are gorgeous! I'll be getting at least two of them.

 

[MRV]

I recently got nail pearls for the first time and am now trying out new "designs".
Pink polish: p2 - crazy mademoiselle

Nice! I like the sparse pearls in the middle finger.


The winter finally came here on Saturday, so it's time for white/wintery polishes. This is Dollish Expecto Patronum.



I did not have any big problems with this one in the end, although it did not like touching (cleaning the edges) much and about an hour+ after I did my mani I noticed that the tips had started to shrink (because of rather heavy application), but that totally evened out overnight.

 

[Anitacska]

Zoya Magical Pixie collection!

 

[Anitacska]

My current mani, CbL Gizzards & Lizards with Darling Diva The Big O on the accent finger. I had to trim my nails because the nail on both my thumbs cracked sideways (in the live bit, ouch!) and also my little finger nail broke a few days ago, so I decided to even them up a little. I don't know why they keep breaking like that, you can't even trim them properly as it's so deep into the live bit of the nail.

 

[LastContrast]

Zoya Magical Pixie collection!

 

[Anitacska]

I accidentally bought 2 of EdM's On Edge (the story of my life), if anyone's interested, I'm selling one of them. It would be £10 plus postage, £3 within Europe, £4 to the US/other countries.

 

[CartoonChic]

My current mani, CbL Gizzards & Lizards with Darling Diva The Big O on the accent finger. I had to trim my nails because the nail on both my thumbs cracked sideways (in the live bit, ouch!) and also my little finger nail broke a few days ago, so I decided to even them up a little. I don't know why they keep breaking like that, you can't even trim them properly as it's so deep into the live bit of the nail.

Another pretty color I haven't worn. Sorry about the breaks. My thumb nails break like that from time to time. I have no idea why and they've been breaking like that since I was a kid. I'm glad they haven't been breaking as much lately.

 

[CartoonChic]

Another one bites the dust. Harlow & Co. is no longer stocking Enchanted Polish.

 

[LoriQ]

My current mani, CbL Gizzards & Lizards with Darling Diva The Big O on the accent finger. I had to trim my nails because the nail on both my thumbs cracked sideways (in the live bit, ouch!) and also my little finger nail broke a few days ago, so I decided to even them up a little. I don't know why they keep breaking like that, you can't even trim them properly as it's so deep into the live bit of the nail.

I know what you mean. My middle fingers are always the hardest for me to grow. I don't bite them but they always break. I must hit them on things I don't remember.

 

[Fuzzy]

My current mani, CbL Gizzards & Lizards with Darling Diva The Big O on the accent finger. I had to trim my nails because the nail on both my thumbs cracked sideways (in the live bit, ouch!) and also my little finger nail broke a few days ago, so I decided to even them up a little. I don't know why they keep breaking like that, you can't even trim them properly as it's so deep into the live bit of the nail.

Pretty! but ouch for your thumbs! that used to happen to me when I was a tween(a million years ago lol) but it hasn't happened since, not sure why? Then there was that one time that I knicked off a chunk of the tip of my nail that was already very short... I had to make some 'nail' out of crazy glue.

My nails are getting a bit sad due to soaking off glitter polishes, but I still want glitter so I'm doing a full mani with the NPB Glitter-A-Peel.

 

[jennyap]

Quote:Originally Posted by Anitacska


My current mani, CbL Gizzards & Lizards with Darling Diva The Big O on the accent finger. I had to trim my nails because the nail on both my thumbs cracked sideways (in the live bit, ouch!) and also my little finger nail broke a few days ago, so I decided to even them up a little. I don't know why they keep breaking like that, you can't even trim them properly as it's so deep into the live bit of the nail.
Ouch. I sympathise, mine do that quite frequently too - occasionally other nails but it's usually the thumbs, particularly the right. As you say you can't cut them down properly, and they snag on things all the time, so irritating!

 

[MRV]

Another one bites the dust. Harlow & Co. is no longer stocking Enchanted Polish.

Here's the latest: Elevation Pic de Subenuix (it has a purple base with intense teal shimmer, on me it's mostly teal with kind of a 'cast', on many pics it looks purple though)

 

[Anneri]

I deal with split nails by putting nail glue on the split and put polish over that. Works most times. Orly has a nail repair kit to, iirc, and there're tutorials on the net for a diy version that uses teabags and glue.
I think my issue at the moment is that I used my nail hardener too much and now my nails are quite hard, but brittle. They don't cope well with pressure nowadays - if I bump into something, they will split. I switched to Essie's Millionails but I'm curious if any of you knows of a product that makes nails less brittle? Not just harder, because I think that's the root of the problem.

Aaaand here are swatches of the OPI Brazil collection! I quite like the teal and the orange creamsicle colour, but I guess the latter would look atrocious on me.
http://imabeautygeek.com/2014/01/15/opi-brazil-collection-first-swatches/#more-48585

This site also had the new Essie Spring collection which I found boring as hell.

 

[Pinkdollface]

I deal with split nails by putting nail glue on the split and put polish over that. Works most times. Orly has a nail repair kit to, iirc, and there're tutorials on the net for a diy version that uses teabags and glue.
I think my issue at the moment is that I used my nail hardener too much and now my nails are quite hard, but brittle. They don't cope well with pressure nowadays - if I bump into something, they will split. I switched to Essie's Millionails but I'm curious if any of you knows of a product that makes nails less brittle? Not just harder, because I think that's the root of the problem.

Aaaand here are swatches of the OPI Brazil collection! I quite like the teal and the orange creamsicle colour, but I guess the latter would look atrocious on me.
http://imabeautygeek.com/2014/01/15/opi-brazil-collection-first-swatches/#more-48585

This site also had the new Essie Spring collection which I found boring as hell.

It could indeed be your nail hardener. I use the Trind Nail Repair, which is sort of a nail hardener, but it works differently and they say it doesn't have the problems normal hardeners have. I use it as a base coat with all my manicures and my nails are still flexible and don't break as easily as they did in the past. I also had my nails crack on the sides into the live bits and it indeed hurts and is so annoying.
I love the teal from the OPI Brazil collection too, but I wonder how it compares to OPI Fly from the Nicki Minaj collection.

 

[lyseD]

I deal with split nails by putting nail glue on the split and put polish over that. Works most times. Orly has a nail repair kit to, iirc, and there're tutorials on the net for a diy version that uses teabags and glue.
I think my issue at the moment is that I used my nail hardener too much and now my nails are quite hard, but brittle. They don't cope well with pressure nowadays - if I bump into something, they will split. I switched to Essie's Millionails but I'm curious if any of you knows of a product that makes nails less brittle? Not just harder, because I think that's the root of the problem.

Aaaand here are swatches of the OPI Brazil collection! I quite like the teal and the orange creamsicle colour, but I guess the latter would look atrocious on me.
http://imabeautygeek.com/2014/01/15/opi-brazil-collection-first-swatches/#more-48585

This site also had the new Essie Spring collection which I found boring as hell.

I like the creamsicle one too and I have nothing like it.

 

[Anneri]

It could indeed be your nail hardener. I use the Trind Nail Repair, which is sort of a nail hardener, but it works differently and they say it doesn't have the problems normal hardeners have. I use it as a base coat with all my manicures and my nails are still flexible and don't break as easily as they did in the past. I also had my nails crack on the sides into the live bits and it indeed hurts and is so annoying.
I love the teal from the OPI Brazil collection too, but I wonder how it compares to OPI Fly from the Nicki Minaj collection.

Thank you PDF. Where do you buy your Trind? It's not available here in Germany, but as my parents live in Aachen, it's not difficult to just pop over the border quickly for a small shopping spree!

It's this one, right? http://www.ebay.de/itm/Trind-Nail-Repair-9-ml-/390698627699?pt=Gele&hash=item5af773f273
Is the price about right?

 

[Pinkdollface]

Thank you PDF. Where do you buy your Trind? It's not available here in Germany, but as my parents live in Aachen, it's not difficult to just pop over the border quickly for a small shopping spree!

You're welcome. It's available at Etos, DA (both drug stores), Douglas and De Bijenkorf in the Netherlands. I don't think every DA, Douglas and Bijenkorf has the brand though, but that's what the site says. Etos sometimes has special offers like buy one get one free or half off. That's when I stock up on all my Trind products. I believe they are sold at some beauty salons too.
Here you can look up where it's sold in the city you're going to http://www.trind.com/html/Trind/Nat...d_Trind/Where_to_find_Trind_11.htm?country=NL

 

[Anneri]

Thank you hun! I#ll have a look.

 

[BudziakBeauty]

I deal with split nails by putting nail glue on the split and put polish over that. Works most times. Orly has a nail repair kit to, iirc, and there're tutorials on the net for a diy version that uses teabags and glue.
I think my issue at the moment is that I used my nail hardener too much and now my nails are quite hard, but brittle. They don't cope well with pressure nowadays - if I bump into something, they will split. I switched to Essie's Millionails but I'm curious if any of you knows of a product that makes nails less brittle? Not just harder, because I think that's the root of the problem.

Aaaand here are swatches of the OPI Brazil collection! I quite like the teal and the orange creamsicle colour, but I guess the latter would look atrocious on me.
http://imabeautygeek.com/2014/01/15/opi-brazil-collection-first-swatches/#more-48585

This site also had the new Essie Spring collection which I found boring as hell.

Surprisingly, I'm in love with that bright yellow. Reminds me of the one cruise I went on, has a resort-y vacation feel to it. I like the peach (toucan do it) & coral (live.love.carnaval) too. Although that compilation swatch of the yellow liquid sand is interesting too... Sigh... Nail Polish

 

[CartoonChic]

My head is spinning from the Colors by Llarowe restock. I wanted the 2 new LE colors and the Valentine's set. I added everything to my cart as soon as it went live, but never made it to the cart page because of the site crash. I kept trying and was monitoring the Facebook page for updates. Through some miracle, one of my attempts made it to the cart page after mention of the wishlist update. I was able to check out with Good Golly Miss Molly and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Now I'm just waiting to order the Valentine's set.