Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener Review

To be honest with you I have no clue why I haven't shared this product with you before. I'm on my second or third bottle of the stuff and it has been used as a base-coat for pretty much all my nail posts for the past year or so. What am I talking about? The Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener.

The Diamond Strength Hardener is 3-free and claims to prevent your nails from splitting, cracking and peeling by giving you stronger nails within 5-7 days. I use it as a base-coat when I paint my nails and find it dries quickly which is great because I don't have much patience! When using this product I do notice that my nails feels stronger and they break less :)

The only bad thing I can say about this is that it goes a bit thick and gloopy after you've had it open and been using it for around 6 months. But I don't mind because it is often on sale and I use it a minimum of two times a week anyway so the bottle is probably nearly empty by the time it starts getting thick.

So even though it's not a pretty coloured polish or a sparkling glitter I think this product deserves somebody to pat it on the back because it has served me well, acting as my base-coat for a very long time. Nobody wants stained nails, split nails and weak fragile nails do they? Well if you do, don't buy this but if you want strong, healthy nails and a good base-coat for your manicures I think you can guess what I'm about to say...
I highly recommend this Diamond Strength Hardener from Sally Hansen. It retails for $16.95 and can be found at places like Priceline and Myer.

Thanks for reading :)

The winter challenge day 16

Newspaper nails = one very excited polish addict
Reality = fail
That just about sums it up. I was really looking forward to doing newspaper nails because a) it was something I had never done before and b) they look awesome when done properly. Sadly mine failed.
I chose to paint my nails a pale pink. Then I got my wet nail polish and applied the print onto my nails. That step worked out way better than I expected and the words were surprisingly crisp. However I struck trouble when I went to put a top coat on. All my words smeared and smudged together to form a black blob :(
Here are the less than extraordinary photos of this failed attempt. But I shall try again because I still think it is a cool idea.

Excuse the lack of clean-up. The newspaper ink went all over my fingers and because it was obviously a fail I didn't bother cleaning up and just removed it straight away.