So this thing I went to a few months back offered a free manicure thing and the woman did my nails using some of that UV cured “gel” nail polish.

It was nice! Also liked how incredibly tough the polish was. It only started coming off a good few weeks later and I still had to get at it with a mixture of acetone and viciously picking at it with my nails, scraping at it with files/other stuff in a cheap nail clipper set.

Anyway I bought some nail polish from my local dollar stores as I liked their colors.

Damn coating is already chipping off.

Did the clear coat, multiple layers of colored nail polish, then the top coat. It’s still chipping off. Maybe it’s to there being “different types” of clear coats (base, “rapid dry”, etc) although I have a sneaking suspicion that other then tweaks towards how fast the lacquer dries, they’re all functionally identical, and it’s just some irritating misogynistic scam crap for ripping women off.

(Of course the scam crap for ripping us men off are the various mystery petrochemicals found in automotive stores!)

Maybe it’s also the fact I didn’t sand mu nails down to increase the surface area for bonding, although a good chunk of my nails were still sanded from said manicure thing.

Second question/infodump: Do US dollar stores sell UV curing nail polish, or is that only found in… “Not dollar stores”?

Looked through the collection at “Dollar General” and “Family Dollar”, but none of them stated they are UV curable.

…Infact bottles of nail polish have shockingly sparse info on them. You’d think there’d be a short bit for application and curing directions like on bottles of glue, but no! Almost all of them don’t have anything like that! Not even anything about how long it takes to fully harden.

I’m not exactly a big fan of the “sit there with one of your hands out of commission as you try not to get anything to touch your nails for ~15 minutes, but even after that it still takes multiple hours for the polish to fully harden” thing.