Tonight I've got a review of whole bunch of Duri Cosmetics nail products to share with you. All these products were provided to me from Pink Tiger, Australia's official distributor of Duri nail polish, and Lust Have It beauty box, who featured Pink Tiger in the recent April box.
Lets start with Miracote. Miracote is a super fast drying three free top coat. I love it. It dried fast and to a beautiful shiny finish. I really wish I had this top coat while I was pregnant a few years back, because I would have painted my nails a lot more. I didn't want to use Seche Vite because of the toluene, but Miracote is free of it, so it would have a great option.
Drop 'n Go is a bottle of instant drying drops, although rather than applying it as drops, is comes with a pump spray like a perfume bottle. You can see in the picture how much I have used. I'll talk more about it below where I have a photo of it on my nails.
Now Rejuvacote. "Rejuvacote "the nail doctor" will heal and cure your split, cracked and acrylic eaten nails. In a matter of weeks you will enjoy the look and feel of strong, vital, natural nails. It's not a promise, It's a guarantee." Firstly, I feel like some kind of hermit for the fact that I know so many girls who use Rejuvacote religiously, yet here I am finally getting to try the product for the first time.
I've never worn acrylics so my nails are not damaged from that. However I have recently buffed my nails to remove yellow staining so I was able to photograph some sheer polishes. I'm pretty sure I overdid the buffing and thinned them too much, making them weak and prone to breaking.
I've been using Rejuvacote as a base coat for the last 12 days. Here are my nails on 8 May, when I first got Rejuvacote and nearly two weeks after a break resulting in me filing my nails down. The next set of photos were today. I'm very happy how quickly my nails have grown in that time and of course, no additional breaks. I'm certainly going to continue using Duri and hope to see an improvement in the thinness of my nails, and ideally bring them back to their previous steel like glory!
Next up are two of the Duri nail colours.
Bonjour France is a pretty lavender creme polish. The formula was beautiful and easy to apply. It was well pigmented and dried fast. This is two coats of Bonjour France with Miracote top coat.
Venom is a super bright neon pink creme. Again the formula was excellent, especially given this was a neon, which can often be a bit streaky. This is two coats of Venom with Miracote.
Next I decided to create a bit of nail art with the two duri polish colours. I started with a white base because I was going to do a gradient. I also decided to try something new for me that I read, and painted PVA (Elmers) glue around my cuticles. Doesn't this look delightful!
When the PVA glue had dried, it was just super glossy and transparent.
Next I created a vertical gradient using both Bonjour France and Venom.
After I let that dry a bit, I peeled the PVA off. It came off easily but was still a bit stuck around the cuticles were the polish was still moist. I ended up just cleaning that off with acetone and a brush and it was very clean because there wasn't actually any polish on my skin, only on the glue. I definitely like this method and prefer it to taping off my fingers with sticky tape.
Next I smoothed the gradient out with top coat, following that I thought I would try out the Drop 'n Go spray. I spritzed two sprays on my fingers, one would have been enough if I had lined up the spray a bit better on all four fingers at once. The finish looks very wet and oily, but I just left it to dry and soak in.
I think I like the Drop 'n Go, and it seems to dry nail polish nice and fast. I say 'think' and 'seems' because the truth is, when using products like this, I sit there thinking 'I wonder if my nails are dry yet', but I don't want to touch them in case they're not, so you wait a bit longer. When I did check if they were dry, they certainly were.
I really should do a test with Seche Vite, Miracote and Drop 'n Go spray all at the same time - with a stop watch. Then after, say 30 second increments, test each nail to see how much it has dried compared to the other nails. I'll add that to my to-do list.
Here are my gradient nails with the Drop 'n Go spray on them.
Lastly, because my nails were perfectly dry, I did some stamping. I used Konad black polish and BM223 for the design.
Pink Tiger is the official exclusive Australian distributor of Duri nail polishes. The prices are as follows:
- Rejuvacote: $25
- Miracote: $25
- Drop N Go: $25
- Nail polish colours: $18
- Lint Free Gauze (200 sheets): $13
If anyone is interested in joining up to Lust Have It so you can get to sample products from brands like Duri, then my code "MORE", will get your a $5 discount of your first months subscription.
Cause I'm so new to this brand, I'd love to hear from you guys that use Rejuvacote (or other Duri products) and to tell me your experience with it, and any do's and don'ts you may have learned
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