Not Really A Waitress

It’s been years since I painted my fingernails with anything but a clear coat.

My toenails?  Pretty those babies up with reds and pinks and purples!

But my fingers?  No way.

There is nothing tackier than chipped fingernail polish, and even a manicure from the Ritz Carlton spa cannot make colored nail polish stay on my fingers.  The last time I had a manicure was on the way to the airport before a weekend trip.  By the time I reached the hotel in my destination city, my polish was chipped and peeling.

I vowed then and there to never paint my nails again.

Luckily, last spring I discovered how to fix my soft, peeling nails and make my natural manicure look beautiful.  What I didn’t realize at the time was that I held the key to my polish woes.

I apply Nail Tek II Nailcare to my fingernails almost every day.  Once a week I wipe down my nail beds with nail polish remover and start over.  It’s given me longer, stronger nails than I’ve ever had in my life.

Last week, I picked up a new bottle of Nail Tek II and happened to read the back of the packaging.

“APPLY DAILY as a top coat over polish.”

Could it be?

My lovely friend Becky, the same woman who turned me on to the Nail Tek II in the first place, insisted during her recent visit that we get pedicures and manicures.  I looked at the dark red polish, considered my 80s pop star Halloween costume, and remembered the instructions on the Nail Tek bottle.

I took the plunge.

Freshly polished nails

Immediately after I got home from the salon, I put a coat of Nail Tek II on my fingernails over the fresh nail polish.  Shortly after, I took a shower, washed my hair, and checked my nails.  The nail polish had survived a shower – which was already an improvement.

Five days, five showers, three loads of dishes, one party, and roughly 30 hours of typing later, and my nail polish looks like this:

5 Days After Manicure

Look, Ma! No chips!

My nails aren’t quite as perfectly smooth and fresh looking as they were right after I left the salon, but I feel very comfortable walking around with them like this.

What I’ve done is add one coat of Nail Tek II every day before I get in the shower.  It only takes about 30 seconds for it dry completely and I can get on with the business of my morning routine.

While I appreciate the natural look of a clear coat manicure, I’m excited about the idea of being able to paint my nails with colored nail polish again.  I can have girl hands!  (I mean, kind of, if you ignore the fingers and stuff.)

Nail Tek II is cheap, cheap, cheap and lasts forever.  I had my first bottle for about 10 months.  You can get get Nail Tek Nail II at drugstore.com for $10.99. OR, you can get 2 for $8 at Amazon.

(The color, by the way, is Not Really A Waitress by OPI.)

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My nails are soft and tend to peel.  They break and I can’t keep nail polish on them no matter what I do.  Even when I was pregnant and hopped up on vitamins, I had bad nails.

Two months ago, my friend Becky gave me a Nail Tek nailcare product to try that changed my life.  Or at least, stopped my fingernails from peeling.

Nail Tek Intensitive Therapy II

This stuff is amazing.  I was skeptical at first because nothing I’d ever tried had worked.  And I couldn’t see how clear nail polish was going to make a difference.

Apparently, this Nail Tek stuff is a hell of a lot more than clear nail polish.

I put it on every morning.  It dries in about 30 seconds.  I do this every day, putting on another quick coat over top of the old stuff, for a week.  On the 7th day I take it all off with fingernail polish remover and start over.

Fingernails after two months of nail tek

OK, they still aren’t perfect.  And no product in the world is going to change the fact that I have short, stubby fingers.  But it is a vast improvement over the jagged, peeling, brittle nails I had before.

It’s amazing how much faster my nails are growing now that they aren’t breaking off every other day.  I’ve actually had to use a nail file and fingernail clippers!  JOY!

Nail Tek has a wide range of nailcare products.  I use Nail Tek Intensitive Therapy II for soft, peeling nails.

I’ve also started using their drying drops.

Nail Tek 10 Speed Polish Drying Drops

I don’t paint my fingernails because I don’t have the lifestyle or time to maintain them.  But I do keep my toes polished and these drops dry the polish in about 10 seconds.  I mainly use it when my 4 year old daughter wants her fingers and toes painted and then refuses to sit still long enough for the polish to dry.

If you’re looking to try the Nail Tek (and I highly recommend it if your nails suck like mine), there’s a 2 for 1 deal on Amazon right now here:  Nail Tek Intensive Therapy II Buy 1 Get 1 free

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