Shellac Nails

I must confessed, I'm very lazy in terms of maintaining and pampering my nails. I did buy some nail care products in the past such as nail hardener top coat, cuticle oil and nail cream, but applying it regularly for the products to do its job is another case. It doesn't help with the fact I do not wear gloves when using washing detergents and other cleaning products! Although I do regularly apply hand cream because otherwise my hand will itch like mad from dryness! (Oops!) 

Seeing my nails cannot grow past certain stage and me wanting to have nice nails I decided to go to the nail shop to do manicure, hoping the nail polish can toughen my nails a little and to avoid me keep clipping the chipped bits off! 

I was looking through the nail shop website and saw a short video for shellac nails. It sounds promising - no filing down nails (which I hate because it thins down my natural nails) for the acrylic nails, has a high shine, makes the nails look tougher and the price is about the same as a normal manicure. So, I went in and got them done.  

According to the Creative Nail Design (cnd.com) website that introduced this polish; 

"Shellac is a breakthrough, patent-pending UV3 technology that combines the ease of polish with the permanence of gels. No other products in the market can stand up to the claim – on like polish, wears like gel, off in minutes."  

It claims that it should last for at least 14 days without chipping.  I'm hoping it can withstand my abuse longer and stretch it to one month before I redo my nails, but the "14 days" saying is only because by that time new growth would have grown so the nails look less appealing 

Here is the result of Day 1.  I quite like the finishing of the nail. It make it looked like I had acrylic nails done, just without the long length. I chose the French manicure finish as I wanted something simple that can match any accessories or outfit I wear. My only complaint is they made the white tip a little too thick meaning it made my actual nails look shorter than it should, but this can be rectify if I insisted on it to be thinned down. The lady did asked me whether I felt it was okay, and I did say "yes", so I shouldn't complain about it =p

I'm  hoping to update weekly to see whether it still look fine. If you had it done before, let me know of your view on it. 

Mary xx