Survey Says... March 23rd, 2022
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- Your skin tone/coloring:
- Go-to top coat?
- Go-to base coat?
- Average wear you get out of a polish?
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Your skin tone/coloring: above with freckles, green eyes, warm brown hair.
Go-to top coat? Glisten and Glow Top Coat. It dries and sets SO fast and is so shiny!
Go-to base coat? Any nail strengthening one I can find. I have super flimsy nails.
Average wear you get out of a polish? It really depends on the brand. Sally Hansen’s old formula was the best. I could get almost a full week out of it without any major damage. Most brands I can only get a couple of days before I get chipping.
Your skin tone/coloring: light warm
Go-to top coat? Inm Out The Door
Go-to base coat? Zoya Anchor
Average wear you get out of a polish? 7 days (Zoya, ILNP), 12 days (Essie Gel Couture), 6 days (Essie Expressie)
Your skin tone/coloring: pale, cool
Go-to top coat? OPI (and I think I have a good one from Zoya but I honestly don’t remember where it is)
Go-to base coat? The OPI one for natural nails
Average wear you get out of a polish? This depends entirely on whether it’s a home or salon manicure. A salon one usually lasts me about a week; with a DIY job, I’m happy if I get 4 days without chipping and tip wear. As for toenails, weeks and weeks!
Too coat : Seche Vite
Base coat : OPI Natural Nail base coat
Average polish wear: one week
Your skin tone/colouring: Porcelain, with pink undertones
Go-to top coat? For both my base and top coat – Clinique’s one is the best I have tried.
Go-to base coat? As above
Average wear you get out of a polish? Anything from one day to three days, if I am lucky!
This seems to be yet another thing we have in common – short-lived manicures!
Coloring: warm, green eyes, blond hair
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Base Coat: OPI for Natural Nails
My mani lasts on average 4 days – depending on what my activities are – gardening wrecks them – so too volleyball.
Skin tone coloring ? Med tan
Top coat ? Deborah Lippmann” Addicted to Speed”
Base Butter London “ Nail Foundation “
Average wear about 6 days (ish)
Mary
Skin/coloring: very pale with coolish undertones
Go-to top coat: Holo Taco Super Glossy Taco (I find it shrinks less than Seche Vite for me)
Go-to base coat: Holo Taco Peely Base for non-dominant hand, either no base or HT Smoothing Base for dominant
Average wear: I repaint my nails about once a week and very rarely have any chips at all on my non-dominant hand. Dominant hand gets tip wear by the end of a week but nothing too bad.
I LOOOVE Halo Taco!!! <3
I LOOOVE them SOOO MUCH that I spelled the name wrong!!! Holo Taco…I KNEW something didn’t look right!!! Lol 😉
Your skin tone/coloring: fair, cool toned
Go-to top coat? Seche Vite
Go-to base coat? Orly Bonder
Average wear you get out of a polish? 1-2 weeks for regular nail polish before I get substantial tipwear.
Your skin tone/coloring: above
Go-to top coat? Vibrant Vinyls Double Bond 2 in 1 sticky ridge filling base coat
Go-to base coat? Glisten & Glow top coat
Average wear you get out of a polish? 5 days if I do everything right and don’t use my nails as tools haha
Your skin tone/coloring: med tan olive, in between seasons.
Go-to top coat? Jessica Brilliance. Sally Hansen quick dry..
Go-to base coat? Barielle, Sally Hansen or Essie.
Average wear you get out of a polish? Days and weeks. Currently wearing ILNP Sundance, yellow-green holo and Sweater Weather blue holo. 😊 🌻