I loved testing out the Sally Hansen Colour Therapy Nail Polish colours which I was sent, and was overall very impressed with these polishes!
Mud Mask is a gorgeous colour, a very muted brown which would be great if you're wanting something more professional/corporate/basic. Super chic.
Pampered in Pink, as the name suggests, is much more fun and out-there — a bright, bold, hot pink, total Elle Woods colour.
Both of these colours applied super easily and evenly, largely thanks to the helpful, flat-shaped brush, and dried surprisingly fast. In terms of wear they lasted an average amount of time — maybe three days before I noticed slight chipping going on? Overall very happy with these and would buy again!
Beauty Review sent me two Sally Hansen Color Therapy polishes "Primrose & Proper", a pretty pink and "Teal Good", the top coat and matching Cuticle Oil, and as I wear gel polish on my fingernails, I tested these traditional polishes on my toes.
In order to really test them out, I deliberately dehydrated my toe nails prior to receiving the Sally Hansen polishes, to the point where they started getting white dehydration marks (which do go away if cuticle oil is applied to the nail on a daily basis, for at least a week). When my parcel from BR arrived, I applied two coats of Sally Hansen Color Therapy in “Primrose & Proper”, with a nail art design stamped onto the big toe in Sally Hansen Color Therapy in “Teal Good” (these polishes are pigmented and thick enough to stamp well - see pic on Photo Wall).
The wide, flat brush made it easy to paint my little toes with one swipe of the brush, while my big toes only needed two swipes per coat, and the formula is quick drying, so by the time I'd done the first coat, I was able to go straight back to the first toe and start painting the second coat. No sitting around waiting for polish to dry.
One thing I don't like about the packaging is that the bottles have very square edges at the base. This makes it really uncomfortable to roll the bottles in the palms of my hands prior to use. I don't like to shake my nail polish and prefer to gently roll the bottles in the palms of my hands, to prevent air bubbles being trapped in the liquid. Obviously, this is something that the Sally Hansen packaging designers didn't really think about.
I wanted a good comparison between using the polish with cuticle oil and without cuticle oil. To do this, I only used Sally Hansen's Color Therapy Cuticle Oil on the toes on my left foot, as that was the one with the worst dehydration damage. I wanted to see what the oils in the polish would do on their own (on my right foot), without the added help of daily cuticle oil.
Well, four days after I'd first applied the polish, I noticed a chip in the middle of the big toe of my right foot (no cuticle oil applied to this foot). The polish on my left foot, where I'd been applying cuticle oil daily, still looked as good as it did on day one! I removed the Sally Hansen nail polish after 8 days, and my toe nails no longer had signs of dehydration (the white marks were gone).
Tips: Review continued: ... So, does it really work and live up to the promises? The oils added to Sally Hansen's Color Therapy nail polishes definitely do make them kinder to nails and they do seem to nourish and hydrate the nails to a certain extent, but this doesn't mean that cuticle oil doesn't need to be used. I think the results speak for themselves. Cuticle Oil still needs to be applied on a daily basis, not only to nourish the nails but to keep the polish flexible and prevent it from chipping. I still wouldn't recommend leaving this nail polish on for more than two weeks, even with daily use of cuticle oil, as the oils in the polish will eventually stop nourishing your nails when the polish gradually starts drying out, removing moisture from your nails instead of nourishing them.