Nail Polish Addicts Anonymous

iamashoppingaddict

I've never had a shrinkage problem with SV either, but I do let the polish dry for a couple of mins before applying it as above.

maddiemay

Starrystarry has pretty much posted my thoughts. There has always been a problem with shrinkage, at tips and sometimes at cuticles, it doesn't always happen to me, but I have not noted any pattern with application or certain brands of polish. Several years ago when I first got into np, I avidly read MUA nail board, at that time it was recommended to use an ordinary topcoat and wrap tips, prior to using SV. I have really long nail beds, but nails short at tip IYKWIM, so wrapping is difficult for me.

Edited to add:- A quick Google trawl gives loads of information, reasons etc. Main suggestions are wrap tips, use on wet polish and keep SV thinned, problem is worse as it gets thick, which it invariably does. Seche Restore is the recommended thinner, it can be used to thin polishes too.

Lifeforms

starrystarry wrote: »

Its a known problem with Seche Vite and some other fast dry top coats. I've never had it happen to me but I've read about it on lots of the blogs. Most people suggest you should let your colour dry for approx 5 mins before you add SV (despite the instructions saying you should apply it to wet polish). If you wrap your tips you shouldn't get shrinkage there.

Lifeforms...do you wrap your tips?

Erm, I had to google that! Reading about it, that's what I end up doing when I try and prolong a colour/design, and find my tips showing after a dayish of wear. I didn't over coat it through, which is where I end up getting a little edge showing.

I always put the tip thing down to me wearing on them, because it generally happens all the time (albeit it more noticeable on darker colours), but find it interesting that it's the top coat. I will wrap my nails next time I do them, and see if that makes a difference. Stupidly :$ I also put the shrinkage by the cuticles down as growth of the nail. I always wondered why some "grew" more than others though. Oh heck, I'm an idiot! :rotfl:

As the edges of my nails are white currently (pinkish/salmonish glitterish lower half, whitener tip polish on an angle, with a stamp on top) it isn't as noticeable today (1st full 24hrs). They can do me an extra day, prolly two as I have my dad over tomorrow, and he doesn't like polish/varnish smells

First time I've split colours on the nail, at an angle, achieved by using French manicure stickers/guides Quite pleased with the result actually, but had to stamp over the top of it, as the edges aren't really crisp, but did buy some striping tape for future use (when it arrives) so that I can have a go without a stamp hiding all horrors.
I'm really getting into all this, and enjoying stamping, mixing the colours, and gluing on hearts, and fake plastic gem stars :A

Excuse the chubby fingers/bad looking nail beds, very poor clear up after etc etc. I cheated with this one, the other hand is more obvious for the shrinkage, so I refuse to show it ;D


Edited to add: You know, having seen those in super up close and personal macro mode, they're not so good. I have bad vision, so I'm just gunna say they look good from a distance xD

HanSpan

MulberryPeony wrote: »

Sorry my blue is a little late. Busy week this week.

Lovely colour - and very smart job. What is the colour?

HanSpan

MulberryPeony wrote: »

Oh, that's quite noticable Lady S. I've never had a problem like that. I sometimes do a tip top-up too - ProStong did a smuge corrector which is great to use as a top coat after tip top-ups as it makes the whole polish as one.

I've been considering the ORLY one: ORLY Nail Treatments Smudge Corrector. It gets mixed reviews on MUA. Its about £8 I think.
So after you mentioned this I went looking for options - any comments/review or cheaper sources would be great:

The ProStrong I cant find for sale anywhere.
There a Borghese Perfetto Nail Polish Smudge Smoother available from some odd places on Ebay
And a very few bottles of Avon Nail Experts Smudge fixer Polish Corrector.

So waht, if anything, do you all use or have you tried and are any of them any good?

HanSpan

Lifeforms wrote: »

Erm, I had to google that! Reading about it, that's what I end up doing when I try and prolong a colour/design, and find my tips showing after a dayish of wear. I didn't over coat it through, which is where I end up getting a little edge showing.

I always put the tip thing down to me wearing on them, because it generally happens all the time (albeit it more noticeable on darker colours), but find it interesting that it's the top coat. I will wrap my nails next time I do them, and see if that makes a difference. Stupidly :$ I also put the shrinkage by the cuticles down as growth of the nail. I always wondered why some "grew" more than others though. Oh heck, I'm an idiot! :rotfl:

Metoo on the idiot front- I thought the wierd upcurling at the cutucles when I added later coats then seche vite (several days after initial manicure) was the 'shrinkage'. Not that it happened immediately. I too get white tips after a day but assumed it was wear. I've tried wrapping the tips but think it looks worse - I end up with dabs under the nail, plus its always bitty feeling so I find myself picking at it until I create chips that ususally include bits of the polish on the top surface of my nail and look worse than if I'd just left well alone;)

I tried it yet again with this manicure and its just aggravating as I can feel it and it just feels 'wrong' so I keep bothering at the ends of my nails.
Is that just my wierd fidgetty nature or does it bother anyone else?

And I think those diagonal nails with the fabby stamps look great!

MulberryPeony

HanSpan wrote: »

Lovely colour - and very smart job. What is the colour?

Nails Inc The Serpentine.

MulberryPeony

HanSpan wrote: »

I've been considering the ORLY one: ORLY Nail Treatments Smudge Corrector. It gets mixed reviews on MUA. Its about £8 I think.
So after you mentioned this I went looking for options - any comments/review or cheaper sources would be great:

The ProStrong I cant find for sale anywhere.
There a Borghese Perfetto Nail Polish Smudge Smoother available from some odd places on Ebay
And a very few bottles of Avon Nail Experts Smudge fixer Polish Corrector.

So waht, if anything, do you all use or have you tried and are any of them any good?

I still have some ProStrong left so that's the only one I've used unfortnately.

Lady_S

My nails aren't all long enough to wrap, so I don't do it because I don't want them to look silly having some done and not others.

I think the shrinkage yesterday was due to the speed i put it on. I was rushing because it was the first time the pup had been on his own downstairs without supervision or being in his pen.

iamashoppingaddict

Has anyone used justbeautifully.co.uk? I placed an order Friday and still haven't had a dispatch email despite saying the item is in stock and that they normally dispatch within 24-48 hours. Tried phoning and it goes to answerphone so I've sent an email instead.

Humph.