Beauty Swellness: CND Vinylux Weekly Polish System review
CND has just launched a new nail polish, Vinylux Weekly Polish System. That’s right, it’s a polish you apply at home, that you don’t cure under a lamp, and is said to last seven days.
Seven days.
Considering regular polish typically lasts less than one day on me without chipping, I was super keen to test it out, and Leeanne of Tips Nail Bar generously had me come in to see her to try it.
In typical Leeanne fashion, she knew exactly what colour I was in the mood for. Is there such thing as mani ESP, cuz if so she’s got it. We went with a pale grey called Cityscapes.
There’s no base coat for Vinylux btw. Leeanne applied three coats of Cityscapes (two was sufficient but she wanted to ensure the colour was solid) and then the topcoat, which features Prolight Technology (ie. it cures in natural light). No lamp, just a short wait as Vinylux dries in 8.5 minutes.
I left Tips, a happy camper with pretty, shiny nails…and then this happened:
Not even 10 minutes after leaving the salon, I’d dented my thumb when I went to pay for the takeout I’d bought for lunch. So lesson #1: the polish may dry to the touch in 8.5 minutes but you still need to be careful with your nails because that doesn’t mean it’s 100% dried.
Besides this, my nails looked great until day five, when I noticed a strange sort of sinking back of the polish on my thumb. I showed Leeanne who said this possibly stemmed from a bubble during application.
Then day six, chippage action on many nails.
All in all, pretty good results. I’m impressed. I consider it lasting six days longer than any other polish I’ve tried. Is it a game changer? I’ll have to test out how well it performs when I apply it myself, that’ll be a truer test–see how it performs with my very average polish application skills. Stay tuned for the post!
CND Vinylux Weekly Polish, available in 62 colours. $12 each.
5 Comments August 12, 2013