After discovering a Nail Art Channel run by the lovely Cristine called Simply Nailogical and watching her do her amazing nail art, in everyone of her videos she uses a peel off base coat and then treats you to peel porn at the end of each tutorial which is just so pleasing to watch...sounds odd but go over to her channel and watch her polish mountain video then you will see what I mean.
As it says on the tin this is a base coat that you apply before your usual nail varnish and when you are ready to remove your nail polish you simply peel it off and not needing to use nail varnish remover.
I searched every where to find a peel of base coat as I am the type of person who will paint her nails and then a few days later get bored and start picking, so finding something that could potentially remove the nail varnish in one hit sounded amazing.
I then came across the Maybelline Dr.Rescue Peel Off Base Coat in Boots which cost £2.99 and couldn't wait to try this bad boy out.
On the bottle it states to apply a thin layer, wait two minutes for it to dry and then apply your choice of nail varnish as usual and then when ready to remove, starting from the edge peel it off.
I did what I was told an applied a thin layer on all of my finger nails and waited two minutes for it to dry. When applying the base coat it was quite stringy, not sure if that's because I was putting it on too thick, but even when I got rid of all of the excess polish on the bush it was still doing it. After the two minutes was up it was still extremely tacky and wet so I let it dry for a bit longer. After 7 minutes I went ahead and painted my right hand using the Rimmel London 60 seconds super shine in 403 Oragasm. As the base coat was still very tacky, applying the nail varnish was difficult as it was very sticky and stringy.
I left the base coat on my left hand to dry for longer which took a total of 15 minutes for it to be totally dry to the touch, so again I went ahead and applied my nail varnish. The application this time was a lot better, it wasn't stringy and went on how it should do.
My nail varnish lasted 4 and a half hours before the nail varnish on one of my fingers just slid off as I was getting something out of my pocket....
This is defiantly not something I would use if I wanted my nail varnish to last!
I then got too impatient and went ahead and started to peel off the varnish on the rest of my fingers and it was very satisfying.
It does do what it's supposed to and peels that nail varnish off in one stroke, so if that's what your after I do recommend this base coat, but like I said I wouldn't say this is to be used for nail varnish that you want to last for a long time.
Below is a video that I made to show you how easy it is to remove.
Let me know in the comments what your favourite base coat and nail vanish are to use :)
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