Polish pens

So a while ago I tried a nail color pen, the nicole by OPI brand or “nic’s sticks”.  I love them they are super easy to control and go on nicely onto your nails.  I have the control issue with regular nail polish brushes, my nails tend to look like a 4 year old painted them.  Of course I tend to get lazy and don’t want to bother doing the whole nail polish on a cue tip thing.

The colors are pretty good, not too many colors in the average shoppers drug mart but enough.  At the time though I was looking for a blue nail polish and they had it so I was happy, it was also on sale so even better!

It’s a really nice color, but my problem is that nic’s sticks are over ten dollars and really, for nail polish its too much.  So I went to Walmart the other day and tried the nail pen from Sally Hansen.  For some reason the shoppers drug marts/pharma plus that I go to don’t have a large selection of Sally Hansen so I haven’t been able to try this pen out.  So I bought a purple, and just tried it out.  Lets just say you do not have to pay double the price for the OPI!  The Sally Hansen brush is pretty similar, maybe not as slim as the nic’s sticks one but its the same basically.  The nail polish is just regular Sally Hansen nail polish so its perfectly good.

There is a nice color range, so unless the OPI has a color you really want there is no use for it.  I’m expecting it to act as all my other Sally Hansen polishes have and last just as long, if not longer than my more expensive polishes.  But in general for the nail polish pens, if you have the same trouble I do with painting your nails without painting your fingers as well, the pens are a great solution.

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