May be not 100%, but it works, although not durable product or effect
I have to agree and disagree with some of the critical reviews.<br /><br />First, does it work ? in one word YES, But...<br /><br />As other customers mentioned, although this is my first time to use glass file, I am happily surprised that it actually works very very well.<br />The buffering blocks. I haven't used the small one yet to see if it is hard to use like some customers reported or not yet, but I thought I will keep that one for traveling and use the big one for home.<br /><br />Yes, except for may be the Extra coarse and coarse grit, it feels as if all buffers sides are dull, which is not necessarily a bad thing, compared to the extremely harsh snapper blocks with one sided open foam, which I received from another company, which one can use to sand wood because it would be even harsh for your car paint !!, but despite how they feel, they actually worked, and although my nails were not terrible to start with, but now they look and feel the smoothest and shiniest they have ever been, so I don't really care if they feel the same grit  or not and if they all feel dull, but here are the issues I have so far<br /><br />1- My biggest problem so far, is durability, I don't think these are durable at all, and at such price, I will consider them extremely expensive, if they last not even a month or two. I only had them for couple of days and yes I had to use them 4-5 times to achieve the results, but some of the grit plates are actually slowly coming apart and threats are coming from the undersurface where they are glued to the foam block, so I highly doubt that they will last beyond 2 month. If these were $2 that might have been ok, but at almost $11, I would say minimum of 6 mo, is what I would consider reasonable<br /><br />2- They actually leave extremely fine scratch, which is not truly visible unless you look side ways under direct light, but may be that is what leads to number 3 :-)<br /><br />3- As beautiful and shiny the nails look immediately after you are done, as if just walked out of fine, high end salon, unfortunately most of that goes away with the first hand wash , even if you don't use soap, which is very disappointing, even for someone like me, who used to hate shiny nails for men !!<br /><br />4- I really didn't like/appreciate the fact that the company immediately dropped the price $2-3 after my purchase !<br /><br />I will try to post photos shortly<br /><br />------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />An update 03/26/2017 --- will change from 2 to 4 stars for now, and may change to 5, if it survive the first 6 months :-)<br /><br />First, my disclaimer. The company contacted my simultaneously at the same time I was posting me review, to ask me about my feedback, so I told them that I just finished reviewing it, they emailed me back and were extremely nice about it, apologizing that I wasn't happy with their product, I asked them if they can at least partially refund me, to price match the current price, which if they didn't I would have likely returned the product. To my surprise they told me that they decided to issue me a full refund, which I felt terrible about, because that was never my intention, because I really loved the glass file, and the buffers work , but had the issues that I mentioned, So I thought this would be unfair to them, so I wrote back to tell them that and ask them to just to do a price match (- $2-3), or send me another set and that will take care of it, but they said full refund was already issued and they actually did and I already received it. I said this upfront, before I update the product review, because I know what people will think, but honest to God this experience while reflected very highly on the company and their customer service, but by no means, shape or form affected my update for the product review and that is why I am keeping the original, so you can judge for yourself.<br /><br />1- Durability - Still a concern and I guess only time will tell, So I may have to update this few months from now :-)<br /><br />2- After reading their entire add on amazon website, I realized later on , that I MAY have used some of the harsh buffer sides slightly more than I should have and that may have led to these fine scratch that the shining buffer, couldn't hide any more, but after experimenting a little, I think I almost got rid of most of them, and the remains are really negligible.<br /><br />3- Longer lasting shine - This may have ben also my mistake ! - I don't really like shiny nails for men, but when I tried it out of curiosity, I immediately stopped buffing them the second they became shiny, and when I did that, that shine would go away with the first hand wash, but for whatever reason, I guess with repeated buffing using only the shinning side, I ended up with nice, very smooth shine, that actually doesn't go away with washing, showering etc, despite doing it multiple times now, and all of a sudden I start liking shiny nails, even for me!, something I never ever thought that I will be ok with!, at least for myself, now I ended up doing my toe nails too and they look the best they ever did in my life ! :-)<br /><br />So all the above, in addition to excellent customer service experience, not only that have led me to update the review, but I ordered 2 more sets, one as back up for me and the other as gift for my wife, who I hope will like as much as I did, instead of using toxic ugly nail polishes.
Rating: 4 stars