Review (4/5): Color Kit 3- Beautiful colors, long-lasting finish, but poor marketing job
Manicures and pedicures are a routine event in our home, especially with restrictions on public outings. With younger children, picking nail polish is a given, so despite the gel’s potential to last for up to two weeks, they manage to remove it in just a few days. For them, though, it means another nail session and new colors, so no big deal. The gel nail polish was hopefully our answer to increase the duration and longevity of their finished nails.
Anzuo Gel Nail Polish offers attractive color kits. We received the Kit 3 set, which contains black, red, white, and three shades of tan to brown. Like others have commented, the lids only contain numbers, and the kit includes stickers where the user has to create the swatches. This is an inconvenience, but not the end of the world. We found it to be a good test to see how the gel polish would actually apply and then finish.
The gel was rather thick, even after keeping it at room temperature, and rolling it to ensure sufficient mixing. With thinner and increased coats, the polish results in deep, beautiful colors that we really enjoy. The white looks like white-out, even with a top clear coat, though. The black and red are the favorites in our home.
The main problem we experienced and shared with others is the inconsistency and deficiencies in the product’s marketing. There are typos, poor translation and grammar, and worse yet, is the inconsistency in the cure times advertised by the company on the Amazon site and the actual shipping box. The box says cure time is 10-30 seconds by LED/UV lamp, but the website says time frames up to 120 seconds. That is a huge difference that seriously impacts the quality and life of the nail finish. We cure using time frames of 60-120 seconds, depending upon the wattage used by our lamp. With these longer cure times, we have been able to keep the polish looking well and intact for over a week now, even on our children’s nails.
If you can overlook the need to label the bottles, disregard the spelling and grammatical errors, and then utilize your own cure times, the Anzuo gel polish is worth using.