Last month I was in a class down on Wall Street and was poking around the Duane Reade on my lunch break. I decided to pick up a Nic’s Sticks nail polish in “Are We There Yet” which is sort of a mauvish pink for $7. I believe it’s the color on the top left in the photo.
Nic’s Sticks are part of the Nicole by Opi line.
This is not normal nail polish – it’s a paint marker with a brush tip. To use it you shake it up then pump it a few times to get the paint flowing and then paint. The first time I used it I was just painting a thin coat over a dark polish that I didn’t like. It seemed to work ok.
A couple of weeks later I decided to use it normally and I was very disappointed. I shook and I pumped and primed and such but I could not get the paint to flow. I’m not sure if it was out of paint or just not working. I had only done a single, light coat so it would be very disappointing if I only got one use out of it. So I checked and it contains .135oz of polish. To compare your $8 bottle of Nicole by Opi has .5oz.
I also read some reviews and most people are saying this nail polish chips like crazy.
At a cheaper price, say $3 or $4, this might be worthwhile, but for $7 I expect more than 1.5 uses. My advice – use Essie.
