Review (2/5): Thinner than pictured, requires a hair dryer
I’ve got the KXAMELIE mountain green short nail set. It’s a lovely hunter green, as pictured, but that’s about it. They’re not nearly as nice or thick as advertised. I don’t think they’re UV gel, just plastic.
The instructions are vague and unhelpful for beginners and you have to carefully peel off a sticker just to read them. I really wanted to like these nails, yet the glue tab system is a real pain in the neck! You have to get it on your nail, wrestle off the plastic cover, hold under a hair dryer until it looks wet or your skin feels like it’s gonna fall off, pop the nail on and hope it’s straight, and then repeat over and over and over. I guess I could’ve used liquid glue but I didn’t have any handy that day so…. I will say the glue stickers were stronger than I was expecting. They remind me of those little glue dots you get on stuff in the mail sometimes.
My biggest beef with these is that they all come with jagged edges on the ends(however they were manufactured I presume) that snag on things and zero instructions on how to file or trim them. Just a tiny cardboard file tossed in.
Also, beware if you have small hands, which I do, so I’ve run into this problem a lot. The nail sizes are either a bit too small or too big. There’s no good in-between and you can see the gaps in the pictures. I prefer a little gapping to the plastic overlap digging into my skin. Trust me, they looked worse in person, tho. I was kind of embarrassed to wear them at work.
Overall, better than dollar store quality but not by much. Not for beginners due to the hassle. I wouldn’t try again as they only held up for a day. It was the rare color that lured me in.