Beauty Friday: Sally Hanson Top Coat Review

I love it when I am recommended products, but more often than not, I'm happier when someone points out a bad product to me. That way, I'm able to avoid wasting my money. I have never done any product shaming before, but here I go! I hope you find this helpful.

Product: Sally Hanson Triple Shine Top Coat

As someone who constantly paints my nails, I have found that applying a top coat over nail polish is a necessity if I want the polish to stay on my nails for a week without any chips. It also adds shine. I ran out of my top coat and decided to pick this one up. It's from one of the newer Sally Hanson lines, and I was surprisingly disappointed. I'm a huge fan of Sally Hanson polishes, particularly this one and this one. I've also heard some good things about the new gel nail polish line, so I was so shocked when this top coat was so bad.

Now from a distance, you might say that my nails look okay. Not wonderful, but they look fine from here. But wait until you see them up close.

Pink Polish: Revlon Top Speed in Guava

Do you see it? There are bumps all over the polish. If you've seen air bubbles in your polish before, this is it. Now most air bubbles show up on the nails when someone shakes the bottle before using it, which I don't do. I paint my nails with 2 light coats of color, and then a light layer of top coat over them. My process has always worked fine until I used this product.

The first time I used it, I thought it was a fluke. I had used it on top of a Covergirl polish and this happened. The second time I used it, I put it over one of my Sally Hanson polishes, it's own brand. The same thing occurred. This here is the third time I used the top coat. I think it's safe to say that I'm done trying.

I went back to the store and bought the top coat I was using before- Revlon Quick Dry Top Coat. After painting my nails tonight, it worked beautifully, like a top coat should.

Yellow Polish: OPI Brazil Collection in I Just Can't Cope-acabana

Now up close you can see that the bumps are gone. There is still some mess around the cuticle area of my nails, but that is always the case for me after my nails are dry (The excess washes off my hands the next morning). This is what a top coat should do- keep nails free of chips and smooth. As of now, I will continue to repurchase my Revlon top coat.

I will give the Sally Hanson top coat this- it was very shiny, as you can see from the pictures. Now in comparison, the Revlon top coat does not look shiny in the picture, but that is simply due to the fact that I had to photograph my nails inside, without natural light. In real life they are quite shiny.

This experience did not ruin Sally Hanson products for me. It's the first bad result I've had, so I will continue to purchase and repurchase my favorite nail polishes from the brand. I might become concerned if I have similar experiences with some of the other more recent products. Perhaps the Triple Shine line has a thick formula that tends to create air bubbles. It is also possible that I just got a bad bottle.

Do you agree with my review? Have you tried this product? Would you throw it away or apply it differently?