What, this is the puniest little brush I've ever seen.
Today we're gonna be trying out
four long wearing nail polishes.
Now I am well aware that a lot of factors contribute
to the wear of your nail polish,
but all of the ones that I'm gonna be trying out
promise a long wearing, chip resistant manicure,
without the use of a top or base coat.
So I'm really focusing on the longevity
and quality of these nail polishes, all on their own.
So I am on a mission today, to find a nail polish
that has the staying power that I want
and I need, and I crave.
The first polish we're gonna be trying out is
the Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure,
this retails for $7.99
and this is the shade, Pat on the Black.
This is not black by any means,
this is like a dark purple color, strange.
So in this one bottle of nail polish, we supposedly get
a base coat, a strengthener with a keratin complex,
growth treatment, salon inspired color,
top coat, chip resistance and a gel finish.
All that for $7.99.
Okay first I'm gonna apply some Simply Peel around my nails
so that I don't get any of the polish on my skin.
It's just like a liquid latex type of barrier.
So we're gonna start off with one thin coat.
Right off the bat I will say that the shape of this brush
is kind of incredible.
It's just like one of those flat paddle type brushes.
And that color looks really, really beautiful
wow okay, okay, okay Sally Hansen.
This is like the ultimate test,
is doing it on my non-dominant hand
'cause that really tells me how easy a brush is to use.
The one critique that I do have of this polish right now,
is that it is a bit patchy with just one application.
I've tried polishes before
that look pretty good with one coat.
So I don't know, it's probably gonna be fine
once I go in with my second coat,
so let's do that right now.
This already looks really, really good.
I'm very impressed with how shiny and opaque it is,
I'm loving how this looks with just two coats.
This nail polish is actually pretty great
and I cannot believe that I haven't tried it
all of these years, until right now.
I'm kind of obsessed with how it looks now
that it's on my nails,
'cause it really does look like a gel polish,
it has like a very thick, glossy finish.
So, so far for $7.99, this polish is in pretty good standing.
I can't wait to see how it holds up
for the rest of the week.
I have been dying to take this nail polish off
ever since it first started chipping.
And now my nails kind of just look really, really bad,
but for the sake of science, here's what they look like.
This is embarrassing, I hate when my nails look bad,
it's truly one of the worst feelings.
Ugh, I feel like you definitely see some damage done though
where a top coat might have been helpful.
These nails look rough, oh my God.
Anyway, I do think that for a cheaper nail polish
that pretty much had to survive on it's own,
I am not dissapointed,
not blown away, but not dissapointed.
Moving on to our next nail polish, we are going to be
trying out the Essie Gel Couture Nail Polish,
in the shade Rock the Runway.
This is Rock the Runway (laughs).
These retail for $11.00, they are a drugstore nail polish.
I do feel like 11 bucks for a polish is a lot,
but Essie has always been on the pricier side
of the drugstore, in my opinion.
Let's break into this color
that I'm dying to get on my nails.
Like can we just imagine this and this together?
I'm covering it up, but you can see the vision.
Essie girl!
So this is what it looks like with two coats on,
I have to go back in with my little clean up brush
because I did get polish in places where it shouldn't be.
But other than that, I love this formula.
It is just so smooth and creamy,
it's really easy to control with that brush
and I feel like the color is also great.
It's just like a little bonus,
the color is so cute, I love it.
It's so glossy and pretty, I'm really hoping
that this one lasts as long as the others because right now
this formula is just really doing it for me.
Today was a hair washing day, I do wash my hair once a week
and I like scrub, I get all up in there.
And that's when I do notice chipping in my nail polish.
This time around though, only two of my nails were chipped
once I got out of the shower.
And this is day seven so I assume that this polish
has been weakening over time.
I don't know, this is just kind of amazing,
it did perform even better than the Sally Hansen did
and I thought that one was good.
But that one was definitely more chippy than this one is.
I noticed when I got out of the shower
that these two fingers were the only fingers
with like very obvious chips in them.
Now we're gonna move on to one
of our more expensive nail polishes.
This is the Deborah Lippmann Gel Lab Pro,
and this is $20.00.
I don't think I've ever paid $20.00 for a nail polish
before because that is too much, if you ask me.
But I'm really interested to try this brand
because it is one of the better known,
like high-end nail polish brands out there.
Even though the word Gel is in the name of this polish,
this is a Gel-like nail polish.
So there's not like lights or anything like that involved,
it's very similar to the Essie one, where it just has
a very shiny, glossy, thick finish.
Let's see this brush.
Oh yep, we got another paddle brush.
That's pretty good with one swipe.
This color is so cute, it's like blurple (laughs).
Beautiful, everything is going on really, really smoothly.
There's no like lumps or bubbles.
I don't know if it's because this
polish cap is more like weighty,
it's just pretty easy to use.
I think it's the easiest one that I've used so far.
I'm loving how this nail polish looks so far,
I feel like this is a $20.00 nail polish, you know.
It was easy to apply, it has a beautiful shiny finish
and it's super opaque.
You don't really need more than two coats
for it to look this good.
Um, we gotta talk, we gotta have a little chat Deborah.
This nail polish is not lasting as long
as I thought it was gonna.
I feel like in general this formula when I was applying,
I noticed it was thinner than the other two.
Maybe that's why it's chipping this quickly,
I'm not really sure.
But it's weird 'cause it is called like a Gel Formula,
so I don't know, I don't know what it is.
But the color is still super vibrant,
I really love this color and it stayed bright,
it hasn't like faded at all.
I just think that for $22.00, it's definitely not lasting
as long as it should.
This is the Christian Louboutin Nail Polish,
in the shade Mula Lisa, this is $50.
If you're like me and you're just like a casual
nail polish wearer, I don't think that you would ever
buy something like this.
I don't know, $50 for a nail polish is just kind of nuts.
It's kind of nuts to me.
What, this is the puniest little brush I've ever seen.
This is the line that really has me so confused.
It says, "Highly pigmented, super glossy formula
achieves in just two coats, the effect of 20 layers
of traditional lacquer.
I don't think that that's true.
Like that can't be true, right?
Two coats, here we go.
This brush is not bad actually.
Wow okay, yeah this brush is actually pretty dang good.
I feel like it's spreading the color really evenly,
and holy smokes, I know that that was a pretty thick layer
but that is like really vibrant
and nice on my nail, it's very opaque.
This color is a choice that I made and I have to live with.
I feel like the weight of the brush isn't exactly
working in my favor when it comes to doing my opposite hand.
I don't know why, I just feel so much more shaky right now.
It's like a little stringy and a little gloopy sometimes.
Very weird.
Now that I'm looking at this color on my hands,
I'm pretty sure that I wore a sweater the exact same color
in this video, while filming this.
Oops!
- I look like a fool right now (laughs).
And I'm pretty sure that I wore--
Hey guys so tragically, or tragic for me,
I lost a bunch of footage for this video,
so we're just gonna wrap things up right here in my home.
Let's get into the worst.
This nail polish was not very impressive right off the bat,
it started chipping really, really fast.
Faster than all the other polishes,
and on top of that, it stained my nails so badly.
So obviously worst has to go to the $50.00
Christian Louboutin Nail Polish.
Now moving on to the best nail polish.
This nail polish was very easy to apply
and super opaque right off the bat.
It stayed shiny throughout the entire week
that I wore it and it chipped the least
out of all the nail polishes that I tried.
I think that I have to say
that the best long lasting nail polish formula
has to go to the $11 Essie Gel Couture Polish.
Let's start on the hand that I hate the most.
Wait no, I love my right hand the most,
I hate my left (laughs) hand.
My non-dominant hand,
no we're starting on my dominant hand (laughs).
Producer: You paint with your non-dominant hand,
and then start on your dominant hand.
Nico: Yeah, that's what I'm doing (sniffs).