update: fuse gelnamel polish in sonic blue-m

hi guys! so here we are, making an addendum to my previous fuse gelnamel sonic blue-m post.

i previously mentioned how i really enjoyed how it was a 1-2 coats and go type process, with a small, one-finger lamp to help prevent polish from pooling on the edges. it's also a self-leveling polish, given that you allow enough time for it to do so, before you cure it under the lamp.

now onto the ugly: this is about 30 hours after my first application. (my other hand was ok still.)

ok. ok, so i decided to soak my thumb, pointer, and middle to reapply the polish.

removing this polish is pretty annoying. you need to ensure that (if you use the foil method) your cotton balls are thoroughly soaked with acetone and that you wait 10 minutes minimum before attempting to scrape it off. and don't expect the little baby orange stick provided in the kit will do you any good. the tip bent and kind of splintered off after a few tries. luckily i have a metal cuticle pusher, but still. this polish does not remove like most gel or shellac manicures. gel and shellac have cracks for the acetone to sink into and break the polish apart. this polish just kind of lifts from the nail and curls along the edges. but sometimes, even after the 10 minutes of the foil method, there's still patches that are attached. another issue i had with removal is that sometimes along the sides of the nail where it meets your skin, there are remnants that will not budge or remove completely. ugh.

and so i proceeded to paint the three aforementioned fingers. and two days later, this happened, along with a few other fingers on my other hand. really. really?!

now, i didn't take pictures round two with this polish just because i didn't think it was necessary. but basically, i had the same experience. within about two days of doing them, they were already starting to chip and it was still annoying to remove them. so i applied a dark polish on top (see post here) to avoid awkward blue edges sitting amid a light colored polish (see another notd post here).

overall, i don't think that this polish is all that great, considering the amount of time and effort it takes to paint and remove them, and their lasting power is awful. now, i have purchased another polish from this line to see if just this blue one is faulty or not, but we'll have to see about it later. ~Lin-chan ^.~