Doing a base coat experiment
I currently own 8 base coats. I painted a different one on each nail (I doubled up on pinkies and rings since they typically show the least wear at the end of a week for me) and I’m wearing them all for a week and keeping track of wear, damage, and ranking them every two days. At the end I’ll also compare nail health. I plan to do five rounds of this with different polishes, rotating which polishes are on which fingers. Then I’m gonna start on my top coat collection!
I’m officially half way through as of today and I’m very surprised so far by all the results! I’ll post with the final results when I have them, but for now here’s the lead and last place polishes as of day 4 of wear. (I count day of polishing as day zero)
Base coats: Left index (last): Rejuvacote “1” Left middle (first) Pink Armor Nail Gel
Polish: ORLY “Canyon Clay”
Top coat: Essie “Gel Setter”
(Other base coats in the mix: Dashing Diva “Base Seal”, Anchor and Heart “Mermaid Tears”, ORLY “ Rubberized Bonder”, OPI “Natural Nail Base Coat” and a 10+ year old bottle of Essie “first base”)
I currently own 8 base coats. I painted a different one on each nail (I doubled up on pinkies and rings since they typically show the least wear at the end of a week for me) and I’m wearing them all for a week and keeping track of wear, damage, and ranking them every two days. At the end I’ll also compare nail health. I plan to do five rounds of this with different polishes, rotating which polishes are on which fingers. Then I’m gonna start on my top coat collection!
I’m officially half way through as of today and I’m very surprised so far by all the results! I’ll post with the final results when I have them, but for now here’s the lead and last place polishes as of day 4 of wear. (I count day of polishing as day zero)
Base coats: Left index (last): Rejuvacote “1” Left middle (first) Pink Armor Nail Gel
Polish: ORLY “Canyon Clay”
Top coat: Essie “Gel Setter”
(Other base coats in the mix: Dashing Diva “Base Seal”, Anchor and Heart “Mermaid Tears”, ORLY “ Rubberized Bonder”, OPI “Natural Nail Base Coat” and a 10+ year old bottle of Essie “first base”)