Seche Vite Ridge Filling Base Coat

Advantages: Genuine hard wearing and fast drying top coat with a high shine.
Disadvantages: expensive and you can only buy it at specialist shops

...to apply their products! So onto the actual Seche Vite product and the fuss about it… *Seche Vite Dry Fast Top coat* (There is not a section on Ciao for this specific product) The blurb says that this is actually acknowledged as the world's finest top coat, but I am not sure if that is just marketing hype or for real (i.e. how is it actually acknowledged?). The thing is unless you have manicures regularly and at different places you will not really come across this as it is not available in high street well known chemists such as Boots and SuperDrug. I bought my bottle from a little chemist in Temple Fortune, London, but you can get it at some salons that use and sell a variety of products. The main thing is realise is it is expensive but I have to say that I think it is the best top coat I have ever used. For a regular-sized nail... Read review

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Advantages: looks pretty when done
Disadvantages: runny white polish, chips easily, stickers were useless

...found much better. once this was done i used the top coat to finish, which was lovely. the manicure over all was very pretty, but it lasted my friend just a day as the white tips chipped very easily as you had to have two coats to get an even result.... Read review

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Advantages: Nice pastel colour and shine
Disadvantages: Limited ridge-filling ability

..."plastic-y." On its own, I quite like it - sort of "My Nails But Better." However... the ridge filling part is a bit hit and miss. I found it takes two coats to fill my deep ridges on my left hand, and even then you can *see* the ridges better because the polish pools into them, then dries. It looks a bit cool, actually, like tiger-stripes... but not what I was after. It works fine with one coat on minor dents and ridges. Eventually I discovered that a buffing block basically "files" my ridges off very gently. The other problem I have is that because this is plastic-y, other nail polishes dont sit so well over it, making it useless as a base coat. So I use it as an everyday 'nude' colour, sort of a french manicure without the white stripes across the top (it is sheer enough to allow the natural white of my nail to peep through). It does last... Read review

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