Review: Sephora Nail Patch

Dear Sephora,
You know I will always love you no matter what.  But that doesn't mean you should deliberately test my devotion.  When I saw that the Sephora Brand nail patches I had been eyeing were half price and then an additional 20% off on top of that, I had to try them out.  The glowing reviews posted on Sephora's website made them sound amazing.  But you know what?  They were crap.

The idea behind this product is that instead of regular nail polish, you can put these nail patches (aka stickers) on your nails, and they will basically be chip-proof until you take them off.  Fourteen patches come to a pack, giving you a variety of widths in order to custom fit the width of your nails.  They are long enough that they will fit most natural nails (except those really gross ones that get so long that they curl, eew).  The inherent flaw with this product is that you are putting a flat sticker onto a curved nail, so there's no way they are going to stick seamlessly.  The patch crinkled up in the corners of each nail, not only making it obvious that this was not regular nail polish, but made it torture washing my hair, since hairs would get caught in the ripples and feel like the patches were being pulled off.  Crinkles aside, the main selling point of the patches is that they are suppsed to be chip-proof.  Mine were chipped within 12 hours of application.

This picture was taken shortly after putting on the patches.  It doesn't look too bad from afar, but pay attention to the index finger.  Craptastic.  Trust me, it looked 10 times worse the next day.  And the worst part?  It took about a half a bottle of nail polish remover to get the suckers off.

Bottom Line

Product: Sephora Brand Nail Patches 

Website: www.sephora.com 

Retail Price: $10 - currently on sale for $5

Category: Nails

Recommendation: No.  Just don't.