The Great 2017 Press-On Nails Experiment, Part 3

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Next up in our trial was imPRESS One-Step Gel Manicure. Here is what I bought:






These nails are applied not with nail glue, but with these little glue tabs that are pre-applied to the artificial nails.





In this case, I applied only two nails before taking them off. My issue with the way they look is that the glue tabs are very gel-like, and are relatively thick. As a result, the part of the nail that abuts the cuticle was higher than the cuticle, making the nail look like it was simply resting on top of the nail bed. This looked very unnatural to me. Here's a sample from the Internet, as I didn't take a picture of the ones I tried:





It was my opinion that the nails applied with the nail glue looked much more natural (and apparently stay on longer, to boot). Here's the Kiss French for comparison:





I kept the set I bought, just in case it's operator error, so I can try again.

Pros: Easy to apply, easy to remove, easy on the nail bed.

Cons: unnatural look at the cuticle, don't last as long as the nail glue application technique.

Final Verdict: Not for me, unless I can figure out how to apply them without a fake cuticle look. 

Part 1 may be found here.
Part 2 may be found here.
Part 4 may be found here
Part 5 may be found here



1 comments:

joycemocha said...

I ended up forking over for acrylic nails for a couple of years, applied by a pro, for the same reason. Luckily the nails have stayed decent since then since I can't stand to have my nails worked on with a dremel.