The New Generation of Gel Nails
Painting my own nails has always incurred the same routine. 1) Apply a base coat. 2) Apply the colour varnish. 3) Spend hours sat absolutely still – any movement may chip the darn things. 4) Find there is only so much admiring of your pretty nail colour that you can do, and only so many 'Friends' episodes, before you feel the urge to do something, or worse, need to go to the toilet. 5) Do the inevitable – do something, and ruin one of your finger nails. 6) Murmer, ‘oh fuck’. Try to remove the varnish from the ruined nail. Get cotton wool stuck to your still slightly wet nails that seemed dry, but were deceiving you. 7) Take the nail varnish off of all of your nails because you just don’t have the patience or time to do this. Having painted my nails for years and endured the above, or founded that they chipped after two days – regardless of brand! – I have gone over to the dark, more expensive side of the nail world.
