Nailtiques Formula 2 Kit from Escentual

Hi!

I was recently contacted by Escentual and asked if I'd like to try a Nailtiques Formula 2 Kit. If you've been reading for a while you'll know that my nails are not naturally long and strong, and they drove me to distraction before I found a formula that worked for me. I still feel like without a treatment base coat and lots of moisturising they'd split and peel and that is exactly what Nailtiques Formula 2 claims to treat. The kit contains a 7ml bottle of Formula 2 (a treatment polish), 7ml of Nailtiques Oil Therapy and 7g Nailtiques Cuticle and Skin gel in a little box which would be perfect for travelling. The kit usually cost £22, but at the moment it's just £9.95 with free delivery, so it's a great time to try! It was also a great time for me to try it, as on Sunday this happened *sadface* Bye, bye lovely long nails, hello baby nubs! I have to say, it feels odd without my talons, but it will give me a good chance to give Nailtiques a good trial and report back to you on how it does, especially in comparison to my beloved Duri.

Naked, dry little nubbins!

My first impressions of the kit are really good. It's very compact and comes with a detailed leaflet telling you how to use it and the benefits of each product, and others in the range. It states that formula 2 is for soft, peeling, bitten, weak or thin nails - mine have been all of those things at one time or another! Here are my initial thoughts on the kit:

Nailtiques Formula 2 - this is the treatment polish which Nailtiques claim is protein rich and designed to condition and bond together the layers of your nails while building new layers of healthy nail. It's a clear polish with no strong smell which dries quickly and leaves a shiny finish. It's been working for me as a base coat under polish, but it's recommended to use it on it's own until you start to see results.

Nailtiques Skin and Cuticle Gel - this is a glycerine and aloe enriched gel which is designed to help heal tough cracked skin and cuticles. It feels really soft and lovely, without leaving a layer on my skin. I'm gong to try and get Mr NN to give this a go as it claims to be good for men's cuticles and his are awful!

Nailtiques Oil Therapy - I think this is my favourite product in the kit. It's a really light apricot-scented oil that absorbs really quickly and doesn't leave my skin feeling greasy. If you don't like the feel of greasy cuticle oils, this is definitely one you should try! I like to oil my cuticles before I take photos and before bed, and I feel like I can apply this and just get on with whatever else I'm doing and not wait an age for it to soak in.

I'm going to give this kit a go for a few weeks, and then I'll report back to on how I get on! I've heard good things so I'm hopeful. In the meantime, if you'd like to give it a go yourself, the kit is available from Escentual *here* for just £9.95 (less than half price!)

Have you tried Nailtiques Foruma 2? How did you get on?

Hx

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My wonder product - Duri Rejuvacote saves the nail!

Hello!

Time for a long overdue post today. Hopefully you've noticed that my nails are in much much better condition lately, and are growing stronger and longer. (If you hadn't noticed, have a look here and here and compare!) I've always struggled with peeling nails, especially on my index fingers and thumbs, and to some extent my middle fingers too and over the years had tried lots of things to get them stronger, just so I could get the indexes in particular past the end of my fingertips. I'd tried so many treatment basecoats from the likes of Sally Hansen, Nails Inc, Orly and various OPI Nail Envy formulations, which worked for a while and then stopped. I'd tried Biotin supplements - great for my skin and hair but made little difference to my nails. Moisturisers and cuticle creams/oils, all of which made me feel good but again did nothing. The peel on my left index finger was so bad that I couldn't cut the nail any shorter and still had about 2mm of split at the tip. I'd all but given up hope of ever having anything other than naughty nubs. Until lovely Nicole from my birthday group suggested I try Duri Rejuvacote. I'd heard it was good, so I read some more reviews online and struggled to find any bad ones. I found a US ebay seller who'd ship it to the UK for around £6-7 (much cheaper than UK sellers at about £12, and cheaper than Nail Envy) and ordered a bottle.

Well, hallelujah! It only bloody worked, didn't it! Now I really hope I'm not jinxing myself here but I've been using it exclusively since the end of June and, I hope you'll agree, my nails are so much better. The peels have all but grown out (I still get a teeny bit on my left index but it's literally a tiny edge), my nails are so strong and grow like weeds! The instructions say to use one coat as a base coat, apply nail colour if you want and then apply as top coat every day. After seven days remove the whole lot and start again. I just use it as a base coat every time I do my nails (normally every other day at least) and sometimes double up on my naughtiest nails and apply two coats to those, making sure I wrap the tips properly. I started seeing results after just 4 days, and now I wouldn't be without it. The best bit? After using it like this for 4 months, I'm still only on my first bottle, and still have a good few weeks left. The polish left in the bottle has gone a little cloudy, but it hasn't thickened or gone gloopy so well worth the very affordable price tag. I have a second bottle waiting in the wings already ;)

Now, a before and after - speaks for itself really!

 

I couldn't be happier! Now I just have to perfect filing them all the same and I'll have my dream nails :)

Have you found your holy grail? what would you recommend for peeling nails? Not that I'm switching any time soon! While this is working I'm sticking to it!

Hx

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