Product review Sally Hansen Color Quick Nail color pen

Sally Hansen Color Quick Fast Dry Nail Color Pen. I had been wanting to try this since it first came out. My aunt used to have things like this when I was a kid and she would keep it in her purse and when we would go out I would paint my baby cousin Tyler's nails to keep him quiet. (he is 5 years younger). So I had high hopes for this. I had not bought it because it retails for $8-9 dollars. The same price as an OPI polish. Today CVS was having a buy one get one free for all Sally Hansen products. Perfect! I got it in purple. So what you do is click the pen til polish appears on the brush. The brush in my opinion is a bit too big. It would be better a little smaller. The first coat went on thin but that is to be expected. It claims to dry fast, so I assumed I could start the second coat as soon as I finished the second hand like I can with OPI (which is not fast dry by the way). The second coat went on gloppy and uneven. It also kind of smeared it around and made thin spots. I learned this was remedied by clicking the pen a few more times so the brush was kind of to the point where it was going to drip.

It took 3 coats to get it nice and even. But it was so thick at this point that I had/have to wait for it to dry a lot longer than the "quick dry" claim. OPI would be dry by now. So my thoughts are save your $8 and buy OPI or Essie. What this would work good for is travel. I hate day 3 on a trip and my polish chips. So this would be a nice solution for touch up.

So pardon my hands in this picture. While I have 20 plus years polish experience I am still no master. I get the big mistakes with a q-tip dipped in polish remover. But what my big secret is that I paint my nails in the evening about 2 hours before I shower. When you have been in the shower for a few minutes and your skin is soft, delicately scrape the mistake off with your thumbnail. My mom taught me that trick many moons ago.