I do sometimes wonder if anyone else shares my thought about ‘new and improved’ items. Half the time I think hey..whyyyy it didn’t need improving! The new product also never seems to actually have improved, quite the contrary it usually goes from being a great item to being totally crap and you never purchase it again, yet it says it’s new and improved.
The case in point today is Nail Rock’s Nail Wraps. I have used these plenty of times in the past, not the new improved heat-free version but the old-not improved version that meant you needed to use a heat source to apply them.
I use Minx nail designs on my beauty therapy clients and they love it, Minx is most definitely heated with a heat source (my Minx mobile lamp) before application to gain better adhesion, smooth any creases and ensure a perfect fit as the wraps are slightly stretchy when warm. The Nail Rock wraps used to work under a similar premise but were for home use, so I could recommend them to my clients to buy themselves.
The ‘improved’ version of the Nail Rock wraps arrived in the post with lots of gorgeous patterns and, as ever, Nail Rock had got the spot on nail trends and designs for their wraps. Unfortunately that is where my praise for these goes out of the window. I found that without using a heat source the wraps were not pliable enough, were difficult to apply, not as sticky as I was used to and they continually creased, especially bearing in mind I was applying these to my mum, and not even myself as you would probably be doing if you bought these wraps. I tried to file the excess at the free edge and as you can see from the picture of the pink, they just went all raggedy. In the picture with the green I had lifted and smoothed the wrap three times but it just kept creasing down the middle. I have got no idea how these would last the 10 days it says they will as they barely adhered at all in the first place and my mum made me take them off straight away.
Overall I could no longer recommend purchasing these, I used to recommend the old ones all the time as they did the job perfectly without creasing. I think it’s a real shame that they felt they should change their winning formula and I have only posted this in the hope that they may rethink and make them the same as they were before, which I thought were great.