Kiss Nail Strips

I was selected by Influenster to receive a Holiday Voxbox this December, so a few of the upcoming posts may not have to do with nails.  Fortunately, this one does!  In my box was a package of Kiss Nail Dress nail strips.  I can't say I love the pattern I got, but it did get some compliments, so other people must have.

 They applied like most any other strip; by sticking to the nail and then filing the excess off.  I found the excess much harder to file than other sets of strips I have used in the past.  I was afraid I was filing my nail at some points because it was so thick and hard to break.

I applied strips on my accent nails in a french tip -esque style, which is something I enjoy doing with nail strips.  I have to say, these strips are NOT meant for this.  The edges did not lay flat and the ends peeled up within hours of application.  Note, the packaging does not say anything about using them in this manner, but I wanted to give them a test since other strips have no problem with this application.

 The nails that had full strips stayed on quite well.  They lasted through a day at work and I only had one casualty.  I am betting this was because of the large amounts of oil the nails were exposed to when filling the olive bar, so I am not counting it against them.  Otherwise I think they would have stayed on for quite a few more days if I had not peeled them off so soon.

The peeling process was not the best, but also not the worst.  If I had waited a little longer than two days to take them off the glue might have been a little less sticky.  But since the design was far too loud for my taste, I had to get them off.  Taking them off I felt a little tug on my nails, which was concerning, and some residual glue stayed behind.  A quick swipe of remover took the left over glue right off though.

My only complaint about the nails is that they lost some of the design after about two days and I was left with the brown bottom layer.  The fact that all the color wasn't lost was definitely a plus though.  They were a little thick, but with some time I think I could have gotten used to them.

-products in this post were sent for review from influenster.com-