Annoyingly, Boots' website doesn't sell the all-important Seche Vite topcoat, only the less-famous Seche nailcare products. But if you can find it in a local branch, this is a great chance to stock up on the miracle fast-dry topcoat that nail-bloggers and manicurists swear by. It's £8.95 a bottle but I promise it's totally worth it.
The offer's on now at selected branches of Boots and is valid on all Seche. I'm afraid I can't tell you when it runs until as I only stumbled across it by accident while shopping!
I buy mine on Ebay... for about half the price of a shop one... might be worth checking it out if you want a bargain :)
ReplyDeleteWhooo hooo off to check out Boots. Thanks for the post. Jan
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that you can't use Seche Vite with polish free of the Big Bad Three because it wrecks the polish.
ReplyDeleteHere, I show my ignorance of all things mani-related by saying that although I know that the Big Three are Bad, I could not name them all (toulene, formaldehyde and ...?) or say why they are Bad, other than they probably could give you cancer.
Now, on one hand, I say, "but can I be fussed? After all, practically everything could give you cancer, probably. Flippin' apples can give you cancer if the right conditions are met. (No, really, it's true, a study once demonstrated that French farmers who grow apples to make calvados show a higher than average rate of mouth cancer, supposedly because they swill mouthfuls of calvados around their mouths to taste it). Still, it was an excuse to throw out a stack of old OPI polishes and to buy new and up-to-date stuff from this century.
So, mired as I clearly am in the trench of ignorance and before I spend tomorrow lunchtime in Boots stocking up, here are my questions: (1) is it true that you should not use SV with a polish containing the BBT? And if so, (2) which topcoats would you use with such polishes?
@mq,cb I don't think Seche will wreck a 3-Free polish; I've used it over OPI and Zoya polishes before with no terrible effects aside from a tiny bit of shrinking (which I don't really notice anyway).
ReplyDeleteBeaut.ie wrote a really good article about this very subject, so I'd suggest you have a little read:
http://beaut.ie/blog/2010/why-does-seche-vite-shrink/
Ultimately, nail stuff (like most cosmetic stuff) is very personal: what does work for one person might not work for another - so the best thing to do is to experiment, I'm afraid!