Nubar Base and Top Coats Review

Hi pretties! Hope you are all fine this Tuesday. I've recently purchased a new set of top and base coats from Nubar. After using them both for a week, I thought I should post my opinion as there are things that I did like and things that I didn't like.

Let's start with a topcoat. It is Nubar Diamont Seal & Shine Topcoat (fast drying).

Pros:

-Neatly looking bottle with a comfortable brush handle;

-Wide brush which allows you to cover a big chunk of the nail with just one swipe.

Cons:

-Fast dry. Yeah, I know how it sounds.. But I'd love to see the fast drying formula to actually dry on my nail, not on my brush when I'm trying to apply it;

-This topcoat pulls the polish underneath. One tiny delay in application and it will happen;

-Very easy-to-chip formula: I've got the first chip in just three hours after finishing my mani.

And now let's move to the base coat. It is Nubar Foundation Sticky Base Coat. 

Pros:

-Its formula is really sticky and non-running one;

-Quick dry;

-Similar neatly looking bottle with easy-to-hold brush handle.

Cons: 

-The same chipping kind of issue as with base coat: I can easily scrub my mani off the next day just using a cuticle stick (or teeth, another option) so I cannot really speak of any durability or long lasting results;

-It lets your color polish stain your nails. Badly! I was wearing intense red mani last week and after I took it off I felt like I really didn't: my nails were stained red all over! On another occasion I was wearing teal polish and we nails ended up being stained blue. Not great.

So I have very mixed feelings about this set. I'm going to continue using both of these products for now, but I will try to find a better alternative soon. Overall I would not recommend this set. But we are all different, so whatever didn't work for me might work for you.

Thanks for reading!

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