Eleganttouch Reviews

False Nails Weaker Than Real Ones

I have a lot of years of experience with having my nails done and with doing them myself I m way too busy to go to salon appointments traffic parking your nail tech is running late cause its a Saturday or they thought they could squeeze someone in before you blah blah so I rather relax at home with some Netflix and do my own nails Having got fed up with the smell of doing my own full sets of acrylic or gel nails and the mess when one of my cats or the dog tries to get on my lap I decided to try some stick-on nails The first at home brand I tried were great I won t name names as this isn t a review for them I ll leave them their own review Next I tried Elegant Touch Nails because I saw the colour in the pack called Next Stop New York and loved it Sadly that s where the love stopped Listed is everything that was wrong with these nails and maybe one or two points that were right about them but even getting to two positives is a stretch - The pack in pics online looks purple with an ever so slight shimmer but the colour in real life is actually dark purple I liked the dark purple but for anyone buying online just so you know the colour is darker than what is pictured - The nail tips to stick on are a free edge meaning they don t have an application tab which you can hold on to when you apply them and not get glue on your fingers if any squeezes out the sides of the nail - The glue is no better than the super glue you can buy in Poundland for 1 for a pack of five - it is brittle and non-flexible I tested the glue first on an old plastic container lid placed a blob on the lid and a few streaks then let it dry and then twisted bent flexed the lid and it chipped and pinged right off the plastic So I ended up using my own nail glue which unlike this cheaply produced stuff isn t runny like water and is quick thick flexible and more jelly like in consistency sorta thick like say olive oil or hair oil in viscosity - The nail tips are really flat and have hardly any curve to them so when you apply them you need to press the corners down as well Now unless you are forward thinking enough to have a toothpick or cuticle pusher at hand for this glue will come out the sides of the nail and you will get that on your fingers and on the nail tip Other stick-ons I ve used the nail at least curves a bit to follow your natural nails curve and stick down way better - these don t - And the worst point yeah I saved the best till last here is that the nail tips themselves were so thin plasticy and flimsy that they all bent broke and snapped the same day I wish that was an exaggeration but it s not I glued them on all secure looking good didn t submerse them in water or bash the tips and went out shopping some 3 hours later and literally by the time I got back in the car after loading the boot up two nails were bent As I went to push them back into shape they snapped off I went home filed those two down swearing all the way lol and headed out for a coffee with a friend By the time we had a coffee got food and window shopped I noticed that I had chips in a thumb nail and two others Looked liked the chips were where the nails came off the product line were cut out for packaging as these chips were where the numbers are on the underside of the nail tip By the time I got back home one more nail had ripped and torn sideways just from undoing the buttons on my coat when I d got into the car So I am not sure how the pack claims that these nails last for 10 days because they didn t even last one day It is like the manufacturers think people with long nails don t do anything for themselves like carry bags of groceries use cutlery dress themselves or open doors I can imagine them lasting almost never if you have a job where you type a lot provided that they even lasted till you got into work I literally just went out and did normal day-to-day stuff and these nails just tore bent chipped and ripped away and all in all were weaker than what a person s real nails would be