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!

Pursuit of speed - quick dry nail polish (Part 2)

Dear colleagues, today we will follow the project on quick dry nail polishes and I'm happy to present you two other samples which I have in my nail polish collection.

Introduction
The conditions of the performed study are described in the previous publication (Part 1) and here we proceed directly to the subject

Materials and Methods
Two shades of Astor 60 Sec Ultra Diamant nail polish (unfortunately Astor web page does not provide sufficient information, but I can say that these polishes are available at dm and more info you can find here)

Astor 58 and 342 (from left to right)

I have currently shades 58 and 342 (unfortunately no fancy colour names) and I tested them both simultaneously, because they are more or less from the same metal-copper shiny group.
On the bottle is written following "High shine nail color with marine bio ceramic. Strengthens nail. Quick dry, only one coat".


Results
I have to state first that one coat was not enough for me - I like to have with shiny colours quite good coverage, that the nail could not be seen through the polish. So I had to apply 2 coats (again 60 sec after first coat, then second and 120 sec to dry both). I like a lot the colours and can confirm that one coat is really dry after 60 sec. However as the texture is slightly thick, I would say that 2 coats surface dried out in 180 sec and not in 120. Completely dry the nails become after 4-5 min, so even touching the nails with the tip of the file did not leave any scratch.
What I would wish for this polish - to have more wide brush, because with a thin brush it is quite challenging to apply polish evenly, especially on the large nails and did not make any lines while it is drying fast.

Nice even coverage and fast drying - well done, Astor!

Conclusion
I would recommend this polish and going to acquire more colours, but after I run out of these 2 bottles. Overall score - 8/10.

Would I buy again? - Yes, definitely.


Thank you for your attention and we see us in the next issues

Pursuit of speed - quick dry nail polish (Part 1)

Dear colleagues, today we will discuss such a basic physics, namely the definition of speed. As my recent research showed, different people mean completely different thing when they call something "quick". My attention to this subject was captivated by nail polishes marked with "quick dry", "60 seconds dry" etc.
I agree, that 60 sec for a coat of nail polish to dry is actually a great speed and it is exactly what I wish for me.
Recently, I got several nail polishes belonging to "quick dry" category and was curious to test them.
So let's start talking research!

Introduction
The aim of this research was to test the quality of drying of several "quick" nail polishes in extreme conditions. This means that for the drying I could allow only the time defined by manufacturer and then either the second coat was applied or I started to perform some activities with nails (making pictures of my nails).

Materials and Methods
The subject of today's test is 60 Seconds Nail Polish from Rimmel in colour 210 Ethereal.

For the test I applied first a base polish (Look by Bipa, Hard Nails) and let it dry very well (over 5 min).
Secondly I applied a coat of the test polish and waited 60 seconds (simplicity is great for experiments!)
Then I performed the visual evaluation of the coat and concluded, that one coat is not enough - so the second coat was applied. I decided to wait 120 seconds after second layer because 2 coats should take at least double time to dry.
Afterwards I started to collect the data i.e. making pictures! 


Results
I have to say that observed colour of the polish was simply beautiful - great, touching pearl baby-pink. I made several images to capture this effect under different light intensities - day light, direct sun light and flash image. 
Below you can share my observations:

From left to right: soft day light, direct sun light, flash

I have to make a solid statement, that just one coat of this polish is not enough to provide a good coverage. After 2 coats, the coverage was sufficient, as demonstrated by next picture.
However, imaging procedure was actually almost the only thing which could be tolerated by this polish. Saying, that it can dry in 60 sec - it is really UNDERSTATEMENT! I have to point out that you need let at least as much time as for normal nail polishes.
I suppose, that it can be explained by texture of this Rimmel polish - it is not quite liquid in my opinion - so the layers applied are relatively thick and also it explains why you do not have much time to make some corrections with a brush. In detail - you try to make a thin coat, but is is still quite thick and the upper part of the layer dries fast, but the lower layers are still not dry at all.
As a result, after making some things (ordering things on the table and similar stuff - no dish washing or other "hard core" activities) I observed problems with nail coat, mainly imperfect surface and other disturbances.

Conclusion
Despite my positive emotions towards the colour, the results of the experiments were negative. The polish can not be classified as "quick dry". Preventing the possible questions of the reviewers I say, that polish was not old (bought 2 weeks ago). I assign as much as 6 out of 10 points and express my disappointment.

Would I buy again? - Most probably NO, only if some very attractive colours will appear (I have some attraction towards Blue My Mind 810 and Green with envy 819 shades.


Thank you for your attention and we will continue the experiments on this subject.