Sally Hansen Miracle Gel: Review
HOW IT APPLIED:
The base coat is “built in,” but you know me. I used my regular base coat. I don’t mess around with that. But the color applied beautifully. The formula was streaky on the first coat but opaque on the second. It wasn’t overly gloopy and I allowed each coat to mostly dry in between coats and the top coat. The first coat dried in about 3 minutes. Second in about 10. Top coat, which wasn’t particularly thick, dried in about 25 minutes. I was extra cautious about dents though. Once the system dried, it was shiny and felt like it wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
HOW IT WORE:
Let’s be clear. The claim is that it lasts 14 days.
By day three, there was some minimal wear and tear on the tips, but nothing outrageous. I’m going to say this–I change my polish every two days usually. And usually by then I have a few tiny chips in standard polish. On the 7th day, I had some chips though small. I also had some cracking in the topcoat (see pointer in the final series of pictures–middle picture). I think for a drugstore polish that doesn’t require a light, they still looked pretty dang good on the 7th day. I would have kept it on, but I can’t commit 14 days to a polish. Would this have lasted 14 days? Yes. Would it have looked perfect on the 14th day? No. I was perfectly happy with the 7 days of wear I got out of it.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
My personal experiment with this set was to find out if this was a product that I could use if I were going on some kind of week long trip. And the answer is yes. I would be okay painting my nails with this the night before I left for a trip and be confident that it would still look good (enough) on my way home. I love the color selection, and the topcoat is definitely some kind of gel like polish (unlike the revlon trickery). Now that I have the topcoat, $7.99 for an individual polish doesn’t seem outrageous at all to me, especially for how it wears. I’d recommend it and repurchase it.
