Most of us girls love having our nails done, it's the perfect accessory to complete any outfit. Nowadays it's not your standard shade of colour, nail polish and nail art has expanded dramatically.
I never use to be good at painting my nails, would always get it everywhere, be far too impatient to wait for them to dry and would end up removing them. But then I heard about the Sally Hansen Salon Effect Nail Polish Strips... I heard that it was basically a decorative design that you match, apply and shape to your nails and TAA DA! You have beautiful nails without having to wait for them to dry!
I have tried about 4 - 5 different designs and all come with 16 strips to match the right size, and I have found they last longer than normal nail polish.
When I first saw these in Postie a while back i was absolutely ecstatic, being someone that loves nail art and pretty colours, these seemed to be to good to be true!! I purchased a pack containing two different patterns in the foils range.
Opening the box i found two little packets with a foil cover, I decided to open both packets and apply the gold to all of my fingers apart from my ring finger which I then applied the gold with black lace pattern, I loved the way they applied super easily using the tab at the top of the strip to roll on to your nail, I used a size bigger for each of my fingers so that I would get complete coverage, using the cuticle stick to remove the excess from around the edges. The strips stayed on my nails for about 5-6 days before any wear started to show and they looked great, I got so many comments asking if I had done the design myself!! A couple of weeks later I had an event to go and had been planning applying the rest of the patterned strips and was really looking forward to it.... until i went to apply... I opened up the wee packet again and was stumped to find that they didnt have any stick left on them... after searching on the internet I found out that if left unsealed they would loose their stickiness, i was really quite disappointed in this as i had saved the ones i preferred for this event and by opening them to do a feature nail I ruined the lot... After scouring the packaging for anywhere that stated this was the case to no avail I was really quite peeved to say the least!! Lesson learnt and I have since used this product a few times again and will continue to use them remembering no to save my left over ones!!
Tips: Only open what you need to use as you cant save any that are unsealed!