This is a review for Sally Hansen MAXIMUM GROWTH plus nourishing nail color with Vitamins A,C,E and Soy Protein. I am going to particularly review two colors: Profound Pink (a peach shade) and Sacred Scarlet (blood red), but I believe the rest of the colors in this range would be the same quality.
Read on to know what this so called 'leading mega brand of nail treatment and color' has to offer.
How I wish they were actually as beautiful as they look in those glass bottles! This is the worst nail polish I have ever tried and in these last 2+ years I have just cursed the sales assistant every time I have tried to wear these nail paints.
Product | Nail treatment Nail Polish |
Price | Current price Rs 425 for 13.3 ml/0.45oz (I had bought for Rs 375 each, 2 years ago) |
Smell | Strong smell of spirit |
Shelf life | 36 months/3 yrs from export date |
Make | Made in USA |
Brand Claims | Sally Hansen Maximum Growth Plus Nail Color is the first nail polish with vitamin technology.
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I admit I am not a nail polish addict. I appreciate beautifully painted nails but I just don’t have the patience to sit and wait for my nail paint to dry. If ever I wear nail polish, I go for the ones that dry quickly and there are many available in the market now. Two years ago, I discovered my foot’s thumb nail had suddenly broken in one corner - not the grown part of the nail, but the actual pinkish part that has skin beneath it. I tried to file it, protect it, used creams, but nothing worked. It would just break every few weeks.
I was buying some other stuff and the sales assistant suggested me this nail paint. I told her I don’t maintain long nails as mine break very easily, and she said this is a nail treatment and it will strengthen my nails to ensure really good growth. The price was towards the higher side, but she convinced me to buy two. I bought these two:
How I wish they were actually as beautiful as they look in those glass bottles! This is the worst nail polish I have ever tried and in these last 2+ years I have just cursed the sales assistant every time I have tried to wear these nail paints.
THE PLUSES:
Shamefully, NONE!
It was a bad decision to buy these and a complete waste of money when I could have gotten the best nail polish in that amount. Here are some pictures for you to judge:
I applied a single coat and checked after 2 minutes of waiting under the fan. This is what happened to my ring finger upon touching.
The tallest finger looks neat in the above pic due to flash, but this is how it actually came out:
After 10 minutes, the nail polish is still not dry. I touched my thumb to check and it comes off like sticky bubble gum. Can you also see the lines in the area where the nail polish is still intact?
THE MINUSES:
- Even though the brush is quite long, which should mean neat nail paint application, this one gives you only textured nails and nail paint all around the skin. The brush does not evenly distribute nail polish on the nail. I could NEVER achieve a single neat application despite how much patience or precision I used.
- The color of the nail paint is very pretty in itself, but the consistency is BAD. When you take out the brush, it is too full of the paint. If you wipe off the excess nail paint against the bottle’s neck, you cannot paint even half of a nail. And if you try to paint with more nail polish on the brush, it just runs down to the edges and the brush leaves lines in the center.
- The nail paint does not dry even after 10 min of waiting arrrgghhhhhh!!!
- Finally when it dries, you will have nails that look like you have applied nail polish for the first time in your life. All clumsy, chipped and dirty.
- If ever you happen to get a better application, it does not stay for more than a day. No value for your time and effort.
- As if all this is not enough, it is quite a job to remove these nail paints. The Sacred Scarlet (Red one) just won’t leave your nails after cleaning them even thrice with a good nail paint remover. The other one (Profound Pink) has glitters, and glitter nail paints again take a lot to clean up.
- Forget growth, it didn’t strengthen my nails at all. The foot thumb nail kept breaking.
Despite all the rave about this brand and the various nail paints it offers, I am done with it. I would never recommend this brand to anyone.
