#it’s frustrating because it’s not as sticky as orly bonder and it’s not a ridge filler but at least it isn’t slowly killing my nails | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

fingertipsmp3 · 2 days ago

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The fact I stopped painting my nails for a while because I thought painting them too much was damaging them and making them peel, only to find out that my 2 favourite base coats have an ingredient that causes peeling, is genuinely frustrating

#base coats in question were holo taco pink smoothing base and orly bonder; ingredient in question is pvb #polyvinyl butrate or something? idk #i literally thought my nails were just SO horrendously dry from being painted so much. and come to find out the base that’s supposed #to protect them is causing them to peel #when i tell you my nails don’t need encouragement to get damaged… i bit them for like 24 years of my life and only stopped last august #they’re thin due to genetics and i DON’T need them peeled thanks #i’m just going to use mooncat hardcore base from now on #it’s frustrating because it’s not as sticky as orly bonder and it’s not a ridge filler but at least it isn’t slowly killing my nails #i do also have ht’s quick dry base but it doesn’t do what the name would suggest. orly bonder is probably my fastest drier #followed by mooncat hardcore. ht smoothing is the slowest drier it takes SO long #maybe not as long as the opi one i used to use but in comparison to the rest it’s not great #gonna stick to mooncat for most things i think from now on. their top coat is my absolute favourite #ht’s aren’t bad but they take too long to dry. seche vite just causes SO much shrinkage i refuse to use it anymore #i’m not doing a whole ass manicure just to put sv on and have it peel the whole thing back from my free edge and scrunch it up #like who do you think you are. speed demon would never #does it protect from chips? honestly not as much as i would hope but neither does glossy taco #and considering i go through life doing dumb shit like using my nails as tools and sitting on my hands and shit… i mean i’d chip too #if i were my polish #this post brought to you by honestly i just applied the arsonist from mooncat and i don’t want to smudge it because i love how it turned out #so i’m just sat on my phone with my hands in a weird position #personal

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