Orly Colour Care Smudge Fixer Review

I always do my nails right before I go to bed - out of habit maybe I'm not sure why, and of course being the impatient person I am, I get duvet cover print on my nails. If I'm extremely impatient, I get a few dents as well.

For small surface scratches or in my case duvet cover prints, one coat of this baby fixes that up real good. Prior to owning this product, I would just go over the nail with top coat in the morning and all the prints and scratches were gone. So for that purpose, I really didn't need this product.

However, in comes the dents in my wet polish. You have to use this product when your polish is still very wet. So it comes of no use to you if you happen to find your dented polished nail long after it's tried.

The instructions suggest that you put a coat of this on, then polish over your nail again. It doesn't exactly work like a miracle and banish your bump, no. It does minimise the look, but then you're left with a bump under your manicure. Not exactly cute. Ok, that's cool and all, but isn't it easier to just remove the polish from my nail and start again??

I don't know ladies, up to you to decide, but I don't recommend it.

I’m someone who is far too impatient to be painting my nails, I always find I need to be doing something else and try to do this with wet nails becomes a mess.

I end up smudging, denting or getting odd imprints I need to fix.

For the small surface smudges it fixes them right up making them look new again. But if you have a dent it isn't the best, unless you've just painted them and the entire nail is still wet.

Normally if this happens I just whip it off and put a new coat one.

I almost find the product a bit pointless!

I love painting my nails but almost always end up smudging them due to impatience or a pressing need to get on with whatever it is I am meant to be doing. Enter Smudge Fixer.

Well doing one of my recent manicures I bumped my pinky and was left with a small smudge on the center of my nail and thought it the perfect opportunity to test this intriguing product out. I had read that it works best when used soon after the incident while the polish is still wet so quickly grabbed it and started to apply above the smudge as instructed and smooth over the smudge. The product is very thin so is easy to work with and I did see a slight improvement in the appearance of my nail, but, it still wasn't perfect. I found it remedied the smudge but left the nail looking a little uneven. However the instructions stated to add another coat of polish, so I did and was left with a smudge free nail with no evidence of the disaster.

I tried a second time with a more dramatic smudge and it still improved the situation but didn't completely erase the imperfection.

This is an interesting product and one I am happy to have got to try but unfortunately this didn't live up to my expectations and is a product I wouldn't run out and repurchase as I think it is just as easy to simply repaint the smudged nail (depending on its severity of course). With bad smudges or dents I think a repaint is needed as this just doesn't cut it, but, for minor dents and smudges this works a treat and will be in arms reach of me whenever the polish is out.

I can say that this definitely worked for minor smudges and nail nicks in my polish. I tried it on both a bright colour and a neutral and it worked really well on both. The only potential issue would be how bad the smudge is that you are attempting to cover. Even though the product worked well on the small marks, the bigger smudges were still quite noticeable. I didn't see that as a problem since for the big issues I would want to re-do the nail anyway. Will be keeping this in my arsenal!

It was great at removing fingerprint-type smudges but not 'dents' in the polish, didn't make a difference at all. Easy to hold rubberized handle.

I found this product really useful. I am always smudging nail polish after applying and I was able to quickly fix it up before heading out.

I had just gotten back into painting my fingernails. I like to paint them before bed because I like them really harden over night. Unfortunately no matter how long I leave my polish to set and dry, I still end up with imprints from my fingers when I lightly touch them and crawl into bed. The next day I have these imprints. So I thought to give this a go and see if it would take away the smudges. I thought this would be a really thick product so I was pleasantly surprised to find the consistency was thin and even more that it dried quickly. One coat of this and my minor imprints and smudges were gone. Yes I did have some slightly detectable lines that you get from using a top coat but my manicure looked much better. I did have some worse smudges and dents on the polish on one of my nails and while it didn't completely fill the imprints and smudges two coats of this did improve the look of the paint job. So I will be reaching for this after I do manicures the next day to fix up the imprints and finger prints and I think I will repurchase this as well I. If I knew this would wonderfully for this I would've purchased a bottle much sooner.

This product works great for small smudges or chips in the polish, but I think it's more for when one layer of original polish has been used, rather than multiple layers.

it really does fix the smudge :)I used a pearl nail enamel,which always smudges when i use it.One drop of the product,a few strokes of the brush and smudge was gone. Love it.