Hey, it's Sandi! Welcome back to CutePolish. Today, Juli will be testing
out the Azure Dip Powder Nail Starter Kit which is currently the top dip
powder kit on Amazon! We'll have a link for you guys to this dip powder kit in
the description box below. Ff you aren't familiar with dip powder nails,
essentially they're easy to apply at home, however there are a lot of steps.
But it's worth it because the manicure ends up lasting for weeks
until you're ready to remove them! Also, dip powder is super strong so you can
even add fake tips to your nails and the dip powder will keep them on. Hey, it's
Juli! Now let's jump right on into the video. So when you get your Azure dip
powder set, this is what its gonna look like. It comes in a pretty large box and
now we're gonna take out the contents and see what's inside!
So of course you get your little paper products like the instructions and the
store you get it from on Amazon and the instructions on this are very thorough
and I like that they have pictures for each step. You get two nail files. One is
pretty coarse for buffing down layers of the dip powder and the other is smooth.
And you get a cuticle oil, a wooden cuticle stick, a brush to clean off the
excess powder... which I really like. You get one clear base dip powder and
three colours as well as the five step liquids. So as you can see, you really get
everything you need for a complete dip manicure! Okay, so the first step in the
instructions is to apply step one which is bond and this is pretty much a
dehydrator. Next I'm going to go ahead and just remove all of the seals from
the powder while that's drying on my nails and I really like that all of
these did come with a protective seal so that I know that they haven't been used.
Next I'll be applying the step two liquid which is a base to my nails.
Because in the past this has dried really fast for me, I did this one nail
at a time. So I applied it and then I dipped it into the clear base powder. So
normally in the past when I have done this, the base liquid dries super duper
fast, which is why I do it so quick! But this base actually has a little bit of a
drying time so I noticed that it took maybe
thirty seconds to fully dry. So I would wait a little bit and then dip it into
the powder. So I would apply it, maybe wait 15 seconds, and then dip it in.
Otherwise I noticed that when I would dust off the powder, which I also suggest
waiting a little bit before you dust off the excess with the brush, I would
actually dent the dip powder which I've never had happened before. But I kind of
like that the base does take a little bit longer to dry than other dip powder
kits I've tried. I also notice that the base powder applied very evenly and it
stuck to all the parts of the base liquid that I applied. So I'm getting a
little bit behind, but next I applied the base liquid again and then I dipped it
into the color powder. So first I'm doing the pink and I did that on my index and
pinky now and next I'm going to dip it into the purple powder and make sure as
the instructions say if you get any of that base liquid on your skin to remove
it before dipping into the powder and the instructions also say to dip your
finger into the dip powder at a 45-degree angle and then pull it out. I
like to tap off the excess powder again, wait 30 seconds, and then dust off the
excess that's on the skin and the nail with the brush. So the pink powder and
the purple powder looked to be almost opaque after the first coat but with the
glitter I could tell that it was like definitely going to be a full coverage
glitter! And unfortunately, as you can see here, this is where I noticed that I had
to wait for the powder to dry a little before dusting with excess because as
you can see it picked up some of the liquid and the powder and it got stuck
to the brush and I never was able to fully remove it. The instructions say to
go back in with one more coat repeating those steps so that is what I did.
After I applied two coats of the dip powder,
I gave it a thorough dusting and then I applied the activator liquid. The
instructions say to let this dry for two minutes and then that you can move on to
filing. So next I used the coarse grit file that came in the kit to file down
the bulk of the powder and then I switched over to the softer grit one to
just smooth out the surface. As you can see here as I was filing and a little bit of
the powder chipped off. I'm not sure if this is because I applied to the base
liquid unevenly and it picked up sparsely in that area,
but that did happen on the pink colored nail. I also found it very odd that the
instructions didn't say to dip your nails back into the clear base powder
after you applied the color ones. I looked everywhere on the instructions
and it definitely did not say to do that. In the past that's what I have done to
seal in the color so that when I'm filing it, I don't accidentally file the
color powder. And then once I was happy with the filing and everything was
smoothed down, the instructions say to apply one layer of the top coat and allow
two minutes to dry and then apply a second layer of the top coat. For me,
every time I've used dip powder kits, the top coat isn't really like a top coat. It
smells like nail glue and it does dry with a sheen but it's not like a glossy
top coat. So I'm never fully satisfied with the shine of the top coats for
these kit. But this one was pretty nice! If I were to apply like a gel topcoat over
top, I think it would look extra shiny and really pretty! So
overall I think this kit is great for beginners and you really do get
everything you need for a complete dip manicure. If you'd like to watch more
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