Sally Hansen

 Repair + Rescue Insta-Smooth Ridge Filler

Submitted 3 years ago

By perlaperezovalles

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My mom used it as she had non-filled lines on her thumb nail. Worked for a few weeks only.

Used this as a base coat on my feet and it works perfectly. Gave my uneven toenails a smooth finish and kept the polish on there longer than my other base coats

Very thick and doesn't really dry. Did not like it at all.

First time trying it and didn't think it would honestly work but it did! I have minor vertical ridges and deep horizontal ridges from chronic illness. It did not fill in the ultra deep ridges on my nails much but did make them less apparent. The directions say don't put on more than 4 coats at a time with this but I'm sure if someone wanted to they could have since it's buildable but a polygel would be better for something really deep. You can see the self-leveling of this work really well and after 2 coats my nails were smooth and could no longer see the minor vertical ridges. The deep horizontal ones were still there but definitely less apparent. If you have super deep ridges this might not work for you like it didn't for my really deep ones but it worked great on the minor ridges. I would definitely use this again because it does do the job to fill and prime as a good base for polishes and lacquers. I just wish it wasn't this pink...It's like a frosted baby pink and I just don't care for that; I ended up putting Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Gunmetal over it. If it was a white/clear that would have been better. It is a good priming base coat to put your actual polish colors on top of. It hasn't peeled or popped right off of my nails like some other base coats do. I saw some others say it pools at the cuticle, well, anything will if you put too much -wipe the brush; wiggle it towards the cuticle and swipe. I will say that the brush it comes with is AWFUL, it is too fluffy and not stiff enough for good control. One of the worst brushes ever; it's the same one as like the LA Colors Color Last cheap polish bottles; flimsy and horrible. I took off a star on rating for that brush because application is important. I saw some complaining about it chipping or whatever too. It's a priming base coat with a self-leveler for divots and ridges. This isn't a "polish". This is what you put polish OVER. Put a top coat over this if you want to wear it as is.

THE best ridge filling base coat I've tried !! I have horrible wavy, bumpy nails and this fills them in nicely so the polish looks great ! I highly recommend !