Nov 14, 2010

Pursuit of speed - quick dry nail polish (Part 3)

Good evening, dear colleagues! Today we continue to discuss quick dry nail polishes and I'm happy to present you two samples from "extremely quick" family: Maybelline Jade EXPRESS FINISH and NIVEA beauté Turbo colour. Both polishes claim to be dry at 40 and 45 sec, respectively!
So, let's test them!
Materials and Methods
Maybelline Express Finish (130 L Lacquer Peach Fantasy) and NiveaTurbo Color (05 Turbo Pastel)
Results
40 sec? 45? Are you kidding - 60 minimum and 2,5 min for 2 coats! Maybelline has an advantage because of  very broad and comfortable brush, which allows very even and smooth application. With Nivea I had to fight a bit, because it was very hard to achieve nice even surface even for the second coat. But actually, this would be true only for Lacquer edition, because normal Pearl Maybelline ( I have Express Finish Pearl as well in colour 120P Sweet Rose) despite the brush applies very streaky. I did not make any pictures of the Pearl because they were just ugly. Below are the pictures of nails with 2 polishes shown above:
Upper row: Maybelline Peach fantasy, lower row: Nivea Turbo pastel
Conclusion
I would give 7/10 for Maybelline and 6/10 for Nivea. Maybelline scores one point more because of the brush. Nivea lost one due to streaks and sheer light coverage.

Would I buy again? - probably no, because the colours are not exclusive and my expectations were not fulfilled. 

P.S. Maybelline polish has very beautiful soft rosé colour, but I have no idea why it is called Peach fantasy!

1 comment:

  1. Schöne rosé Töne, die würden mir auch sehr gut gefallen.

    Ich wünsche Dir ein schönes Wochenende!

    LG Britta

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