[unpaid/sample] I’ve just read the longest article ever on PubMed about nail health. Did you know there was such a thing as Green Nail? Please do a little prayer that it never happens to you, as I did, because it’s very unpleasant. It made my brittle nails seem positively trivial but despite actively trying to make them permanently better, I can only ever get them less brittle than usual by using moisturizing products. Nails are tricky in beauty because at the end of the day they’re just lumps of keratin at the end of your fingers that have living cells at the base, so in theory, the only way to improve your nail health is to nourish the bed. However, things aren’t quite as cut and dried as that, so bearing those points in mind, I am showing you Kure Bazaar’s new Colour Repairing Nail Serums.
I’m wary of vegetables in nail polish ever since Nails Inc tried to make kale nails a thing – it isn’t and never will be, so for consistency’s sake I will ignore the marketing dose of samphire and focus on the silicium, keratin and calcium complex which is the ‘active’ component of the nail serums. The products were used on 15 women over the course of three weeks using the entire Kure Bazaar routine every five days. That’s not the same as just applying the serum but undoubtedly you will already have oils, top coats and bottom coats if your nails are difficult so you’re probably doing a similar routine anyway. 100% of participants found better nail quality after the three weeks was up.
Technology changes and improves and I must admit to very much liking the idea that my nail polish is contributing to my nail health rather than working against it, which is my natural assumption as things stand. Kure Bazaar has managed to include a lot of ingredients that aren’t normally in a nail polish (chestnut, hibiscus, the aforementioned samphire, and centella Asiatica alongside the silicium, keratin and calcium) but you can’t make nail polish without polymers and solvents so the serums look and feel and smell exactly like nail lacquer. There are 15 shades to choose from and they’re £22 HERE.
I have always found Kure to be reliable – they’ve stayed true to their original intent of making kinder nail polishes (they use wood, corn, cotton and potato pulp instead of hard chemicals wherever they can to keep as natural a polish as is possible) and they’ve grown slowly over time. The polishes are such a beautiful quality – glossy, hard wearing and while no nail polish in the world is chip-proof if you’re determined to chop logs etc, I would say that Kure formulas are your best chance of bringing in the kindling unscathed.
