Is high-end nail polish really worth it?
Filed under: Cosmetics
Short answer: No, not particularly.Yeah, it's experience-sharing time. Recently, I decided to take a break from my drugstore nail polish and try out a taste of the good life, treating myself to a bottle of $20 Chanel "Black Satin" polish (yes, I like black nails). Since my usual nail routine consists of $1 NYC varnish and top coat, Chanel was a big step for me. I'm not entirely sure what I was expecting... Suddenly magical nails that never chip, always look perfect, and play Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A Major every time I open my hands? Naw. I guess I just expected good quality... at least $20's worth of quality. To my dismay, the polish still chipped quickly and, most surprisingly, the coats wore thin and didn't hold up as well as my cheap drugstore polish. Looking at my nails right now, which I painted only two days ago, the solid black has faded to a strange deep brown. With my drugstore polish, it seemed to chip more easily, but at least the color held up very well and stayed an eternally abysmal black. Maybe this is why goths aren't known for turning to Chanel.
I suppose I just haven't stumbled across the right brand yet... I guess it's time for me to find the happy medium between the cheapest of the cheap and the high-end.
This will likely be the last of the facial cleansing cloths I am going to try for a bit. Several weeks ago, I did a whole 
