*REVIEW* Nail Rock Design Nail Wraps

Hi!

I have a comparison post for you today...

I'm sure a lot of people have heard of the Sally Hansen Salon Effects Real Nail Polish Strips...but I've found an alternative in shops and I thought it would be a good time to do a review and see how they compare!

 

 

I have these pink leopard print nail strips and although I can't find a name of the design on the packaging I absolutely love it!

 

I'm a big fan of the Sally Hansen Nail Strips and I've tried 3 of those strips before, all of which I love, but these are slightly easier to find in shops.

 

The Sally Hansen nail strips retail for slightly different prices depending where you get them and which shades you get. On amazon you can find them for as much as £7/8 or as little as around £3/4.

I think in shops they are around the £5 mark.

 

On the Nail Rock website they retail for £6.65 but I got mine in TK Maxx so I got them for £3! :)

 

 

\These have the instructions printed on the back which is always useful!

The instructions for these nail wraps are almost identical for those for other nail strips.

 

 

 

These have a nail file and cuticle stick with them, along with "preparation wipes"...which is basically nail polish remover in a wipe form.

The Sally Hansen strips come with the file (I think the file they give is much better) and cuticle stick but while it doesn't come with the nail wipes it does tell you to wipe your nails with nail polish remover.

It is handy that Nail Rock give you the wipes included but it's not a necessity.

As I mentioned the nail file for these isn't as good quality, it's more scratchy and I don't think the shape if it works well for nails. Sally Hansen strips have a file that has different sides for different purposes, but this just has one surface which is pretty scratchy.

 

 

There are 16 strips here and this is one of the major advantages that these have over the Sally Hansen strips:

These don't dry out.

 

Sally Hansen strips come in 2 packets of 8 strips which are sealed. Basically, once you open that packet they start to dry out, meaning that you can't leave the ones you don't use for different occasions.

With these, you don't have to use them all at once. You could use them as an accent nail or (like I have) use them for every other nail.

It's definitely an advantage to get the strips not sealed in separate packets that dry out because you don't have to use them in one go to stop them drying out.

 

There's a good variety of sizes too; the picture doesn't show it too well but each of the 8 shapes you see above are split into two so there are 16 actual strips.

I really like the design on these, they're kind of a crackle/leopard print pink and black design.

 

 

Here I used a plain black polish from Claire's because I like having complex designs for only every other nail and it also means you can get more uses out of the polish strips! :)

 

So how did these strips apply?

 

I won't lie it was harder to apply these than the Sally Hansen ones.

These strips were harder to shape and they were more difficult to "cut" with the nail file to get the shape right.. As a result as you can see there are some nails where the strip is not quite in the right shape.

I also ended up with several creases and bubbles in the nails. I do get this sometimes with Sally Hansen strips but not as much as with these.

I think it's because these strips are less breakable and they're stronger, which makes them harder to shape and I ended up with more creases.

 

But i'm not too worried about this and I'm still pleased with the look. Because of the actual design itself, the creases don't show up too badly.

 

Now I've had them on my nails for a few days I can say that they've lasted well.
Although because they weren't so well shaped around the cuticles they didn't stick properly and started coming off a little bit.

 

I think overall I won't make an effort to go out specifically for these strips again as I just found them harder to work with in comparison to the Sally Hansen Salon Effects.

If I see a design I really like I'll pick them up because they are still pretty good and especially if I see them in TK Maxx again I'll get a couple but in terms of how they apply I prefer the Salon Effects! :)

 

I hope you enjoyed my review, have you tried the Nail Rock designs yet?

Thanks for reading!

Libby x