Sally Hansen | Beauty and Fashion Tech

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure is marketed as base coat, strengthener, growth treatment, color, and top coat, all in one. I grabbed a couple of bottles of the polish to try. Pictured below is a swatch of the shade So Much Fawn.

Right off, I didn’t particularly like the brush with this polish. It is wide and reminds me of the Borghese nail polish brush, which I don’t at all care for. However, the formula is fine and I got great one coat coverage with it. Without the extra coats from a bottom and top polish, it dried very quickly.

As for wear, it was OK. I didn’t think that there was as nice of a shine with this polish as I would have gotten with a top coat, but it looked generally OK. The polish wore about average in length for me. I am hard on nails and usually start chipping them a day later. Sally Hansen Complete Salon managed to make it to day two.

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About the Author: Carleen Pruess Coulter

I love, love, love, MAC Style Black Nail Polish in the shade Black Baby Goth. Interestingly though, it looks nothing like the swatch shown by MAC site. They show it as a light purple shade, but it really is a deep black purple that looks almost black in low light but shows frosted purple tones in bright light. It is a gorgeous shade.

Here is the website swatch. It isn’t very accurate:

Here is the MAC photo of the bottle, which is much closer:

And here it is swatched on my nails in indoor light, but using a flash:

MAC polish is also one of my favorite formulations (my other being Sally Hansen Salon polishes). It applies nicely and wears very well. I am terribly hard on nails, but usually I can keep MAC from chipping for several days.

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