Monday, 29 October 2012

MUA constellation review

If you saw my post from last weekend you will have seen that last Saturday (not the one just gone) when I was in town I managed to pick up the MUA constellation beads in Gemini. I have seen loads about these on the internet and I am always excited to try new things so I thought I would give them a bash. I wasnt overly convinced about the wear of this so I tested them on my mum - she cant wear nail polish for work - she is a nurse - so I put them on Saturday afternoon, just on the ring finger and just on the tip like a french manicure!
I was really impressed with it and it stayed on really well, and my mum is always doing something so her nails come into contact with a lot of things. She found herself having to take most of it off on Sunday night.

Seeing how fab they had come out on my mums nails, I thought I would give them a try on my own nails, so on Saturday I sat down and decided to do it across all of my ring finger like I had seen so many other people doing online.
They looked really well when I first did them, when I first did them. However things started to go wrong pretty much straight away. When I put the top coat on about 1/2 an hour after putting them on - the colours started to run away from the beads. Thinking maybe they just needed time to settle a bit more, I removed the finger it happened on (luckily I hadnt done both fingers straight away) and started again.
When I got up yesterday morning I noticed that half of the beads on my right hand had come off!!! I mean I hadnt exactly done them and then gone straight to bed! But I just topped them up and went off to church!
As the day went on, more and more of the beads appeared to have dropped off... The ones on my right hand have dropped off terribly and started to pull the polish off and the ones on my left have lost all of their colour!!!

Left hand on the left, right hand on the right

I am SO disappointed with this product. To be honest this is probably how i thought the product was going to be! But I mean they shouldn't come off that bad! the middle part of my finger on the right is where the beads have come off a left a small silver circle behind and you can see next to it where the polish has come off. 
I would be seriously disappointed if I had paid more than £3 for these! I think they maybe are more of a gimmick product you would wear for maybe one night out and then take off the next day but it is just so disappointing. I am for sure going to take these off tonight when I get in from work.... 

Have you tried these nail beads? Have you had similar problems with the wear of them??? Whats your opinion?