Seche Ultra-V Wear Results Plus A Cartoon!

(Click on the cartoon to see it bigger)

Today is a good day. 1. I'm starting to feel better (yesss!!) 2. Mr Ice is taking all this week off work 3. I get to go get a mani pedi with my mom!! I decided to make a little cartoon illustrating what it's like for a nail polish hoarder to go to a nail salon. :) I know some of you will relate!!
Day Three-ish of wear on the seche ultra-v. I am so impressed with this product! Neon colors don't usually wear well on me. I think the chips are more from the polish than the top coat. The top coat is still VERY shiny. I purposely abused this manicure. I scrubbed my house, used my nails as tools and called them mean names! This is my new go-to top coat. I highly recommend it.
Look!!! Betcha didn't know that I DO have two hands!! OooooOOOoo!!

Seche Ultra-V UV Activated Top Coat Review

I ventured into the land of the living today. Feeling a bit better. Sick or not this was an emergency! I was out of my favorite top coat. I went in Sally's with the full intention of buying good ol' seche vite. This has been my staple top coat forever! I saw Seche Ultra-V UV activated top coat. I'm a sucker for quick dry top coats. The box said it would "cure in three minutes with direct UV light. Layers of polish dry quickly resulting in a durable, long-wearing, high-gloss shine."

SOLD! :) It was $7.29 with my beauty club card. I already had a UV lamp. Seche sells a UV lamp for $24.99. That is a good price for a UV lamp. The two reviews for the lamp aren't fantastic on Sally's website. CLICK HERE FOR LINK
Here is the top coat. It is in a cool black bottle that came in a box. See how the box is sad and alone behind the bottle? They wanted to be together so I'm keeping the bottle in the box. (sorry feeling goofbally and this picture is cracking me up! Pensive top coat bottle pic!) :)
So, I cleaned my nails just like I do for a 'normal' manicure. (Do I do 'normal' manicures?) I like using bond aid by OPI under my polish. It balances the PH of the nail and helps my polish stick. I did a swipe of that. Then, I used 1 coat of gelous. I bought this at Sally's. I like it. I picked a color that dries fairly matte. That way, we can really put the 'shine' of this top coat to the test! I picked the obnoxiously beautiful Orly Passion Fruit. I did two coats of color.
Here is a semi-blurry pic of Orly's Passion Fruit. It has a slight satin/matte finish.
Here is my cool picture of my nails going under my lamp after one coat of the UV top coat. Looks creeeeepy!
Voila!! It's a stinky, stinky top coat. But, I think I might be in love. My nails were dry to the touch after 3 minutes and barely 'dentable.' I did pretty thick coats of color so I'm impressed. I'll keep everyone updated on how this wears.