So we all love a bit of nail polish on our finger tips, but don’t you just hate it when you spend time painting your nails and the next day it’s chipped off? Well, below is our step-by-step guide on how to avoid chipped nail polish…
How To Avoid Chipped Nail Polish:
1. First of all, make sure you nails are clean, with no residue from previous polish and no grease. Our nails produce natural oils which lifts the polish off, so to prevent this happening as much as possible you need to make sure there is no oil there to begin with.
2. Next apply a layer of base coat nail polish. Clear nail polish works perfectly fine, so no need to spend extra on a special base coat polish. The base coat will prevent the polish staining your nails as well as protect the colour polish from chipping quite so easily.
3. Once the base coat is dry you can apply a layer of coloured nail polish. Make sure the polish isn’t too thick or gloopy as this will effect the look of your nails. Wait for this to dry and apply another coat, ensuring the colour is spread evenly across your nails.
4. Finally, apply two layers of top coat nail polish. Then in a couple of days time add one more layer. This just protects the nails again, to ensure any chipping that may appear soon can be prevented. We recommend trying out OPI’s Top Coatnail polish that protects and leaves a high gloss finish.
The advice above will help you avoid chipped nail polish for 3-5 days, however I have one more piece of advice to help avoid chipped nail polish for up to a week:
After applying the coloured nail polish, dip each nail in a shot of vodka, wait a minute or so for it to dry and paint over with two layers of clear nail polish. This has worked before when doing ‘newspaper nails’. The newspaper nails lasted for a week, with no chips at all until day 7, suggesting that the vodka trick really works!
One final piece of advice would be, if you have enough space, keep your nail polishes in the fridge. This prevents them from going sticky.
If you have any tips and tricks then please let us know and we’ll tell our readers!
