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Hello friends! Today I have a review that I am extremely excited about! Vanessa is the creator of Dream Polish, which is a nail and skin care line. The start to any pretty manicure is having healthy well cared for nails. My nails are far from perfect but I do try to take care of them and I am so happy Vanessa had a vision to bring her ideas to life. All of Dream Polish's current products are 5 free, Vegan and cruelty free. Her cuticle balms are also bee free meaning they do not use bees wax. She has a few more items in her store than you will see here and more products in there testing phase for future release. As of now she will only be shipping within the US with hopes to expand to International shipping.
This post is going to very picture heavy so lets get started! First lets talk about the Gem Glow Cuticle oil. I have it in bottle form which you apply with a brush. This is also available in a roller ball form. Fragrance is optional and Vanessa has several yummy scents to choose from. The cuticle oil I have been testing is in peach scent and it smells amazing! The scent is just right in my opinion. Cuticle oils are a product I feel need to be used over time to really see long term results so this will be more of a first impression review with follow up blog posts to come. Gem Glow Cuticle is oil has been working great for me so far. I have been applying it mostly at night. I have been putting it on and letting it sit for 10 minutes or so and then rubbing it in. I also like to use it after using acetone for clean up. I have also used this after a fresh manicure is complete and dry. The oils seem very nice and moisturizing so far. Keep an eye out for follow ups on this product, but so far I am happy with it.
Next up is the Dream Polish Cuticle balm in her stick form. The cuticle balm is also available in a slide tin and a larger screw top tin. Again this is an item I feel needs more time to fully review so this will be a first impression review. I have the cuticle balm is the scent Pink Sugar. Again another amazing scent. I personally love sweet smells. I have been keeping the balm in my purse and using it a couple time throughout the day for added moisture. I find it very convenient for on the go easy application. I rub a little on and rub it in to my cuticles which promotes growth and increases circulation to your nail beds. The tube is very cute and I plan on purchasing another one of these and I also want to pick up the slide tin as well. So far so good!!!
This next product I am very excited about because I have been on the hunt for a nice glass file for sometime now. I picked one up from Sallys but was not impressed with it at all and pitched it after just two uses. The Dream Polish glass file on the other hand has been wonderful! I love it! The filing surface is created during the molding process and not a coating type surface. Of course I will do an update to let you all know how this file holds up over time. I also love the velvet sleeve this file comes in.
I have comparison photos for you of the free edge after using the dream polish file compared to a traditional non glass file. When using a non glass file I always get an uneven edge with little frayed bits of nail! As you can see in the photos below there is no fraying with the Dream Polish file at all and the edge is perfectly flush and even!! I am so happy with this file!!!
Can you see the frayed bits!
Clean perfect edge
Now to the products I feel I can give a full review of. I have been using the Smooth Gem Base Coat and I can honestly say this is going to be my base coat from here on out! I am always trying different base coats ans until now I have never been happy with them. I was sent the unscented version. This base coat is supposed to smooth out imperfections in the nail and it works wonderfully for me! My nails are not in bad shape but I do have a few ridges and imperfections. Smooth Gem Base Coat smoothed them right out. My nails feels so smooth and slick using this base coat. I found that my polish just glides on over this base coat. The dry time on this base coat is pretty quick as well. I'm very impressed!!!
Clearly I have some verticle ridges going on
Nice and smooth with one coat of base coat
Last but certainly not least lets talk about The Dream Polish Gem Glam Top coat. This is another winner for me and I have lots of pictures of manicures using this top coat. All these manicure were also done using the shown base coat. I was sent the Gem Glam Top Coat in the scent Jasmine. It smells exactly like Jasmine and its not over powering at all. I was so surprised that the scent was still there 48 hours after application.
My First test was to see how well a manicure would wear over 48 hours, which is my general manicure wearing time. I am very hard on my nails. Lots of gardening and cleaning on a daily basis. I did not wrap the tips on this pink manicure as I wanted to see if the top coat would shrink the polish. Generally I do recommend wrapping the tips with your top coat to help prevent tip wear.
As you can see there was no polish shrinking at all and even without wrapping the tips there was very little tip wear.
Gem Glam adds a beautiful glass like shine to your manicure. I really was happy with the shine and lack of shrinking of polish. This is something I always struggle with Seche Vite.
Another thing I look for in a top coat is will it drag and smear nail art? Well lets take a look and see what my results were.
No smeared polka dots
Another manicure using Dream Polish base and top coats
Yep no nail art smearing at all! I always let my polish dry on its own for maybe 3-5 minutes before adding any topcoat. Gem Glam topcoat passed all my tests and I really like it. It is very fast drying and in combination with the Smooth Gem base coat my nails feel and look so smooth and shiny!! I love the scented versions of this topcoat and plan to buy more!!
So to wrap things up I am a HUGE fan of Vanessa and what she is doing at Dream Polish! The quality is excellent and the products are solid. It is clear to me that a lot of time and energy was put into perfecting these products. Vanessa tests all her products before she releases them. Her website is very detailed giving all the information for each product. I highly recommend you trying out Dream Polish. I am so excited to see what products and scents will be coming to Dream Polish. Today June 21st at 10 am Pacific time is the grand opening of Dream Polish and I cant wait to head over and order a few things! You can visit Dream polish at www.dreampolish.com or HERE. Check out her FAQ section for any questions you may have. Dream polish is also on Instagram HERE. Thanks for coming by and Happy Polishing! xoxo Jaime
