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Worst Nail Polish? What product wins this category?
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From my experience, the Chanel nailpolish is pretty crappy. Beautiful colors, but it chips really quickly.
Hands down is MAC nail polish. The price is outragous for the fact that it has a horrible texture and spreads terribly. I’ve used $.99 polish from Wet n Wild that performs better than MAC’s.
Definitely MAC. Expensive. Goopy. Streaky. The formula is just a nightmare. And if you finally forgive THAT (which is kind of big thing), it pisses me off that the bottle is so tiny for the price.
MAC polish unfortunately =/
I fifth MAC polish. Not worth the money. I bought one years ago that I love called Pink Sundae, but the quality is bad and the price was insane. I’ve found an OPI color to replace it though!
sephora nail polish
not the sephora by opi, the little ones that are sephora brand
I’m going to have to say MAC. Hands down.
Down with MAC up with OPI! 🙂
I would have to say MAC – with the exception of the bright pink from HK, that one seems to wear well on me. However, all the other ones I’ve bought before chip the same day I put them on. The Naughty Nautical blue was so bad I returned it.
MAC ~ Seasonal Peach
I only got one MAC nailpolish, but i’m immediately cured from buying MAC polish…
Crap ! very hard to laquer your nails, gives much stripes, and it chips very quick.
Well, I am going to be different cause I love my Seasonal Peach from MAC, but I am really hating REVLON! For the price it really stinks!
Aw, I love Revlon nail polish. It lasts longer on me than just about anything else…
I’m sorry to say, but MAC nail polish is horrible. My first MAC nail polishes were On the Prowl (the gray nail polish from the HK collection) and Something About Pink (the pink nail polish from the HK collection.) I thought they were okay, with a few coats of it. But when I bought and tried Peppermint Patti (the mint green nail polish from the Sugarsweet Collection), I officially hated MAC nail polish. It was way too streaky, and really sticky. And it was eleven dollars a bottle. If you want good nail polish, try China Glaze or OPI.
Completely agree. I’m so disappointed in my MAC polishes. I recently started buying China Glaze and it rocks. And for a third of the price, who can go wrong with that!
Bloom. It peels after just a few hours. For $20 you’re better off buying OPI.
I recently purchased a nail stick by Nic’s Sticks (it’s opi’s brand, Nicole, that competes with the sally hansen nail sticks) it was horrible! I bought a fun lime green color for summer and it was like water coming out of the pen. Just atrocious!
i would say a three-way tie:
orly
nicole
mac
I know nobody will agree with me…but OPI. It never goes on smooth for me, and it chips off so quick…even with a great base and top coat!
MAC
OPI, definitely not worth the hype
I personally don’t like OPI. I think it has to do with the fact that it has a REALLY wide brush and i have TINY nails lol
Sadly MAC… love some of the colors but most I can find dupes and, as above, the quality and goopiness is a turnoff.
MAC seasonal peach is such a beautiful color yet so streaky. 3 coats is a must but the quality of it, is fabulous! It does not chip or fade easily just streaky and hard to apply, sigh!
MAC.
MAC. Actually I still have a few bottles of their old formula, in the square bottle and those are not bad, but ever since they switched to the round bottles, every one that I bought has chipped really quickly and if it’s a cream or sheer it goes on all streaky. The frosty ones and glitter ones are not quite as bad.
Unfortunately, I have to say MAC. 🙁
MAC :/
MAC. and I am SO THRILLED that other people agree! You had a different post about favourite nailpolishes and everyone had so much good stuff to say about MAC and I thought maybe there was something wrong with the polish I got (naked tip) phew~ so I’m not crazy after all!
Terrible, streaky polish. Worst ever! SO glad I got it on ebay and not paying full price for it!!
Sephora brand nail polish and Wet ‘n’ Wild.
Revlon had an “Always On” gimmick that was SO AWFUL. The first kind they came out with was just one bottle (now they have one packaged with a basecoat, haven’t tried it) that you were instructed NOT to use a base coat with. It still chipped at the tips and when I went to remove it with polish remover (which was what the bottle said to use), I had to SCRAPE the polish off. What was I left with? Bright Highlighter yellow nails that I was forced to grow out entirely. I wrote to Revlon. They sent me coupons for more awesome Always On polish.
wet n wild & sally hansen
I’m going to have to agree with the 99% of the posts and say MAC nail polish, although, I must confess I really, really want the polish that is going to launch with the Rose Romance collection.
I agree… the color coming out with Rose Romance looks too pretty to pass up even though it will most likely suck. D:
I own 25 different MAC nail polish bottles and I guess I am the exception because it lasts on my nails for a full week or longer without chipping! Same quality as Chanel and Christian Dior IMO. Wet n’ Wild & the likes, those are the crappy ones on me.
I have to second your choices. MAC stays on me, and I haven’t found it to be streaky at all!
sounds like somebody is convinced that a product is only worthy of buying if it’s expensive as hell..
ELF nail polish!
ELF NAIL POLISHES ARE CRAP!
Revlon i bought a natural looking color from them and it did not even last me a day. It has no staying power.
I would have to say sephora by opi. The first application ever was problem free. However when i reached for it a couple more times the application was thick and very hard to work with. I can easily find dupes for opi instead at a slightly lower price.
Yep the new MAC polishes aren’t great, for sure! I have some of the super old ones from about 10 years ago in the square bottles and those are still great, but the new formula is crappy!
I hate those mini bottles of polish in any brand! Those mini polishes like Sephora’s brand or the mini sets by NARS or Essie are so bad. The bottle is so easy to tip over, and the brush is too small. Those mini brushes leave streaks.
There are tons of crappy brands to put before Mac. Agn
My bad english. The last sentence should say: But compared to other brands, it
Dior
Chanel
MAC
OPI nailpolish, without a base and a top coast they don’t even last a day, even my cheap nailpolish last longer, I will never buy OP ever again
Revlon. Its tiny brush doesn’t help making application easy and non streaky.
China Glaze nail polishes. All of them. They bubble like crazy.
i don’t know if you have this brand in the USA but i really hate NIVEA polishes they do not cover at all and they need jours to dry.
and i do not really like MAC polishes.
i don’t know if you have this brand in the USA but i really hate NIVEA polishes they do not cover at all and they need hours to dry.
and i do not really like MAC polishes.
The whole NIVEA thing sucks! The color of their eyeshadows… it’s just… yuck. 😛
MAC. Even though I love the colors 🙁 3 coats minimum for the cream colors to avoid the streaky look. The under lacquer and over lacquer help tons.
Sally hansen – they don’t last one full day on my nails without chipping.
I’m gonna go with most of the Sally Hansen stuff … I’ve gotten a couple of nice ones from them (their Salon Line is ok), but most of the stuff is crap. And omg their Hydrating Base Coat is the worst base coat EVAH!
estee lauder, goopy and takes for ever to dry YUCK!
Mac sucks!
I don’t see why everyone hates the MAC polishes.. I absolutely love them!
For me the worst nailpolishes ever are from Eyeko, they are just like water!
Sephora polish (not the OPI/Sephora line) I got given two as a gift when my mum travelled to the USA and they’re terrible! Poor application, and such a shame too as the colours are so pretty
I will never buy China Glaze EVER again! It bubbles and chips like crazy!
MAC by far is the worst;
bad texture on nails, goopy, dries crappy, and peels off easily
The worst nail polish that I recently used was by “Borghese” I dont know if it was just this one color or the entire line, but the color “Tangelo Sherbert C” went on very smeary and streaky. It sucked @ss and looked like $hit!! 😛
The secret with the pricey ones is to apply 3 layers of colour. Base coat. 3 layers of colour. Topcoat.
It layers better and looks like oilpaint.
The cheaper ones…if you try to put a second layer on it melts the first layer off and you end up with nail polish clay.
The colours look better with the pricier ones.
Revlon needs 2 layers…or 3.
If it bubbles put another coat on.