Bourjois 1 Seconde Nail Enamel in No 13 Bikini Paillete (Review, Nail Swatches)

Bourjois 1 Seconde Nail Enamel 13 Bikini Paillete is a gorgeous Fuchsia color glitter nail paint. It looks more magenta in warm light (sunlight, bulb light, natural light, with flash etc) and more purplish in cool light (tube light, without flash etc).  The shade looks darker in the bottle but comes out much brighter on nails. It is quite a bridal shade for Indian brides collection and also great to be worn during the festival season. A very pretty winter shade.

Brand Claims: 

1 Nail = 1 Stroke = 1 Sec

One coat dries in 50 Sec. No Smudges.

Quantity: 8 ml / 0.27 FL. OZ
Made in France

Price: INR 350 (I bought from medplusbeauty.com at 35% off during clearance sale)

Packaging: The nail polish bottle cap is really long and the brush is small and fan-shaped, which is the specialty of this nail paint. The cap is textured on both sides for a better no-slip grip. Color of the cap exactly matches the color of the nail paint, so much so, I can also see the fuchsia and blue micro glitters in the cap's plastic. Impressive packing! 

 With Flash 

 Without Flash 

Bourjois 1 Seconde Nail Enamel 13 Bikini Paillete is loaded with micro glitters which shine as fuchsia, purple and blue. Strangely, when you remove this nail paint, only the color comes off in the cotton swab and you see a layer of silver glitter left on the nails. This requires a second round of cleaning.

In the pics, I have applied a transparent base coat (Colorbar), two coats of Bourjois 1 Seconde Nail Enamel 13 Bikini Paillete, and then a transparent top coat. 

 With Flash / Warm Light 

 Without Flash / Cool Light 

 Here's a close up of the glitters 

It stayed 36 hours on my nails with two baths and laundry and a hundred hand washes and started fading from the tips by the end of 2nd day. There was one small chip after 24 hours. It didn't smudge and was not messy. If you don't expose your hands so much to water and detergent, it will safely stay longer on your nails. 

It has the typical strong nail polish smell. The Fan brush helps in covering each nail in just a single stroke. So the brand claim is quite valid here. It does dry in less than 1 min, which is what I really loved, because I do not have the patience to wait while my nail paint dries. 

 The Fan Brush / Pinceau Panoramique 

 The Fan Brush Effect 

I personally found that the fan brush works better and the polish dries quicker without the base and top coats.

Hope you enjoyed the pics!

Sally Hansen Maximum Growth plus Nail Polish Review

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.

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. Patented formula hydrates and conditions. Soy Protein strengthens and fortifies nails. No DBP, Toluene or Free Formaldehyde.

Read on to know what this so called 'leading mega brand of nail treatment and color' has to offer.

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. The nail paint does not dry even after 10 min of waiting arrrgghhhhhh!!!
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Forget growth, it didn’t strengthen my nails at all. The foot thumb nail kept breaking.

Will I buy again? NEVER

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.