RESIST OR YOU'LL BE SHOCKED (L'Oréal Shock Resist)

Member Name: coolcam7

Product:	L'Oréal Shock Resist
Date:	03/06/04 (147 review reads)
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Advantages: shiny nails...

Disadvantages: ...but not for long

L?Oreal has a huge name in the beauty industry and their cosmetics range is probably one of the most well-known. Their range includes all the products you would expect to find such as lipsticks, lip glosses, eye shadows, mascaras and also nail polishes.

I usually buy Maybelline nail polish as I have found that it lasts the longest and always looks great. However when I found a bottle of L?Oreal Shock Resist nail varnish in the clearance section of my local Boots store, I admit that I couldn?t resist buying it. I love finding a bargain and there was only one bottle there so I decided to treat myself.

The nail varnish had a slightly damaged lid but this made no difference to the product and at half the retail price of £4.99 it was still a bargain. The bottle had a silver lid and is in quite a square shaped bottle. The label on the front states the name of the product and on the back are the ingredients and a short description.

The Shock Resistant range of cosmetics have been developed by L?Oreal laboratories who claim that they are resistant to everything due to the flexibility of the products formula. The nail polish is said to deposit a stretchy film that coats the nail offering resistant protection.

They claim that the mirror-gloss colours are enriched with light-reflecting pigments and that when this is applied to the nail it creates and appearance of mini-mirrors that reflect light giving a radiant colour and shine.

At least this is what they claim. I know companies have come up with some far-fetched claims in the past but to be honest I think L?Oreal was having a laugh here.

Having recently got my nails in great condition thanks to Sally Hansen?s Diamond Strength I decided to try out the product straight away. It glided on easily with just the right
consistency. It was shiny just like any other nail varnish but I wasn?t convinced about what they had said about mini-mirrors, to be honest Maybelline?s Water Shine is glossier than this product.

However I wasn?t disappointed by this as the main claim about the product had been that it was resistant to anything. Not true. I?ve tried a range of different chip- resistant nail polishes and despite the impressive claims this product did not live up to them as you might expect of a huge multi-national company.

I followed the instructions down to the last detail and left my nails to dry for an extra 10 minutes after they were touch dry to avoid damaging the nail varnish. I admired my nail-painting skills and went out on New Year?s Eve thinking that they looked great. They did last for one night but by the end of the next day they were chipped and looked awful. Not what I expected from a product that was supposedly resistant to everything.

To be fair it did last for one night out but from what they said about the product I expected it to last a lot longer. I have had to take it off because it looked so bad and needless to say I won?t be buying the same product again.

In future I?ll stick to the Maybelline nail polishes that may be a little more expensive than what I paid for this one but I know will last and look great. I?m definitely glad that I did not pay the full price for this product because it certainly didn?t impress me.

I?d be interested to know if anyone else has tried this and what they thought of it.

Thanks for reading!

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