Etude House Play Nail Polish

I underwent a period of crazy spree of Etude House Play Nail Polish in various colours. Review first, then photos behind.

On the whole, I find that the glitters are very much worth their price. And their nail polish collection has a lot of colours for the entire year, comprising of spring, summer, autumn and winter colours. I love that as I find their previous nail polish collection too limited in the colour range.

Their nail polish are a bit thicker than OPI nail polish. I think the formula makes it slightly more chip resistant, but can become gloppy when applied too thick. The lighter colours requires 3 to 4 coats, so it’s not really a good nail polish for people who are heavy handed. I would use the method written in my previous post here and it’ll work well.

Here are some of the colours that I’ve tried.

#42 (lilac) and #4 (baby pink)

This is my favourite combi for spring. I hated the baby pink but it turned out great when I paired it with lilac. ^_^

#96 (Grey) and #103 (glitter)

I wore this glitter french combi for a friend’s wedding.

#26

#120 (glitter strips)

#27

#9

#71

#70

#97 and #42

#124 (glitter)

That’s all for this post.

How to apply nail polish?

To those that thought, “Who doesn’t know how to apply nail polish?!”, I am here to say that in fact, many people that I know, can’t paint their nails properly. And by “properly”, I mean a sleek, non-lumpy, non-gloppy, uniform colour.

This post is about how I apply a basic solid one colour nail polish on my nails, and by no way am I saying that it is the only right way to do your manicure. So if you’re still interested, read on.

You will need a base coat, a nail polish colour of your choice, and a top coat.

I’m using Maximum Shield from Sally Hansen, No. 4 from Etude House, and Snap Dry by Orly.

Apply base coat, then let it dry for a minute.

Then apply a thin layer of nail polish and let it dry for a minute. Even if the colour is uneven or sheer, resist temptation to go over them again.

After one coat, my nails looked like this.

It looks badly done, but this will dry faster than a thick application. If you apply a thick layer from the very first coat, the top layer will dry but the middle part will still be wet and malleable. It’ll take a looooong time to dry, and if you fall asleep with the manicure on, the surface will be indented with marks when you wake up the next morning.

As usual, I let each coat dry for a minute even when it’s a fast dry formula.

After the second application…

As you can see, the colour becomes more opaque but there’s still some parts that are not completely done yet so I’ll have to apply a 3rd coat. For darker colours one to two coats would suffice, lighter colours normally require three coats.

Then after everything, I seal it off with a top coat.

All done!!

Hopefully this post has been helpful to you. No more gloppy nails!!