I shared a while back about my experiences with the oval and square shapes of the Sally Hansen Perfect Manicure fake nail. Today I have a set of the almond shaped ones called Sweet as Candy, which has nails in five pastel creme shades: lavender, peach, yellow, blue, and pink.
When I got to selecting nails that fit me, I was surprised to see that nails in the same size weren’t necessarily the same color as each other. I noticed it with the three or four biggest sizes. That’s a bit unusual; in most sets, if there are only two of a size, they’ll match. So I couldn’t make my hands match each other, which is fine, especially for a Skittles set like this. Here’s my right hand (the thumbnail is lavender):
And my left (the thumbnail is peach):
I wish I’d swapped the middle and thumb colors left to right, so there would have been more warm/cool balance on my non-thumb digits, but that probably wouldn’t bother most people. As far as fit goes, these were pretty good for me, though I wished the bases were a bit narrower especially on the size that was the closest match to my middle finger. The shape is not my favorite, what with the scratchy point (even after I smoothed with the included file). The tip also curves down, maybe to make the point less likely to stab something.
I know I could probably get used to the shape and the length—indeed, I did type on my laptop with them on—but after a few hours, I clipped and filed them into more of an oval shape. Ah, much better for my lifestyle.
As with the previous sets, I used the adhesive tabs, and the nails stayed on decently well. What they didn’t do was wear well. The colors don’t go all through the nails but are applied on a white base, and after four days, the color was wearing off the tips of the nails and letting the white show. This was most noticeable on the fingers I use the most for grabbing things and such, but it was there on on all them to some extent by day five. Perhaps this was caused or at least made worse by my clipping and filing them to a new shape, except the color scraped off a small section of my index nail nowhere near the edge, so maybe not.
So far I’ve liked the solid color oval nails from Sally Hansen the best. Those didn’t need clipping and filing to fit my life or nails and they wore well. I’m glad I tried these almond ones but I don’t see myself getting more of them.
