The last item, after cleaning nails with the previous two
nail polish removers, is the Eveline Nail Therapy 8 in 1 Total Action.
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I bought this hoping it would help my nails recover, as
they’d been in a pretty rough shape, especially my toenails. They were rough,
ridged, and prone to splitting. My fingers were in a slightly better state, but
they were weak, too. This treatment promises so many things, so it seemed like
it would be a good choice for my poor nails. Is it just marketing overpromising
things or is it really this good at repairing nails? Let’s see!
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Packaging: clear glass bottle that is rectangular (which is
going to be somewhat of an issue, you’ll see). The cap is very tall! It’s also
white and has the info label stuck on it haphazardly. I like that it’s a clear
bottle, it allows you to see exactly how much treatment there is left in the
bottle. The cap is a bit of a nuisance; it closes so extremely tightly that I
struggle to open it. I really have to use all my strength just to try and unscrew
it, and, before you say “oh you are just weak”, it’s the fact that there’s
always at least a bit of treatment spilled on the ridges of the neck of the
bottle, which, in addition to the cap closing very tightly in general, just
makes thing so frustrating. And this is why I said that the bottle being
rectangular is a bit of a problem; you see, when you have to try so hard to
open the cap, Angular bottles such as this one tend to start to hurt in your
hands due to the sharply angled edges.
So not only am I struggling to unscrew
the damn cap, I am also injuring my hand in the process. Very annoying,
although, one positive thing about it is that you can be damn sure that the
treatment is kept airtight.
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Ingredients: dimethyl urea, aluminum hydroxide, diamond
powder are pretty much the only real active ingredients here. It’s not really
that much, to be honest. There’s also various hardeners, such as tosylamide/epoxy
resin and mastic (Pistacia lenticus) gum. 3-free (DBP, formaldehyde, toluene),
however, you will find MEK in this treatment. What is MEK?, you might ask.
Well, Methyl-Ethyl-Ketone is a paint solvent much stronger than acetone. Don’t
know why it’s sometimes put in base/top coats if it can dissolve paint. It’s
also a suspected endocrine system disruptor, so it’s just a bad chemical
altogether. The scent is quite similar to most other nail polishes, though it
is ‘sharper’, more astringent, and a bit more sour. The expiration date is 12
months after opening.
Colour: this treatment is solid white in the bottle, but a
single coat of it is faintly milky white on nails. The more coats, the whiter
it becomes. During typical usage, it will mostly be milky white. You can use
this as a base coat since it doesn’t have any particular colour to it.
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The brush isn’t terribly good. It’s a tiny, but long brush
that picks up an okay amount of nail polish. It deposits the polish fairly
evenly, though there are always uneven areas, no matter how hard you try to
make it completely even. It’s just not a very fun brush to use, although its
small size does make it fairly precise.
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The formula is quite unpleasant, to me. It’s really thick
and goopy, and very gelly. It’s just difficult to work with and incredibly hard
to make an even coat with it. I guess there’s too much mastic gum in it, or
something. This is, of course, a problem if you are using this treatment as a
base coat, as it any polish applied on top of it is going to be all bumpy and
uneven, too.
Also, not even 6 months after opening, and the formula had become
more goopy and a bit thicker. That only makes it all the more difficult to use.
Opacity: this nail treatment is completely sheer with one
coat. Two coats and it’s still quite sheer, but there is some milky white
colour to it. However, with two coats it looks more uneven than with only one. It
just looks messy.
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Longevity is relatively poor. Look, this treatment is
supposed to be removed on the third day, I know, but that doesn’t really excuse
it peeling off on the second day. It routinely starts to peel off by the end of
day 2, after applying the second coat. No matter how thin the coats are, or how
precisely I apply them, they almost always peel off completely, like a whole
nail of the treatment peels off all at once! It is also prone to getting
scratched, though that shouldn’t be a huge issue since it is so faintly
pigmented. The peeling is both a blessing and a curse for me; on the one hand
it makes it so much easier to start again on the third day (since I have
nothing to remove in the first place!), but on the other hand, if it peels off
before day 3, then the treatment won’t be completed properly. I shouldn’t even
have to say that showering, and especially washing your hair, is what causes
the most peeling, probably due to the nail bed expanding slightly from being
wet and the treatment simply losing its connection to the nail due to this.
Still, it’s quite annoying and bad, and is the main reason why I rarely use
this treatment nowadays.
To give credit where credit’s due, this treatment is super
simple and easy to remove with nail polish remover. You don’t need to rub a lot
at all. That is, if it survives until day 3; most of the time it will have
peeled off by then.
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Results are where it’s at with this treatment! Everything
previously mentioned might have been pretty bad, but the results are real and
noticeable. Alright, so this nail treatment promises to solve a lot of nail
problems: damaged nails, splitting nails, weak nails, soft nails, brittle
nails, frail nails, matt nails, and nails with an uneven surface. I applied it
to my toenails over 14 days, following the instructions carefully. My nails
were in really rough shape: they were brittle, dry, matte, splitting when
cutting them and they had fairly noticeable ridges on them. After the 14 day
treatment period, they already started looking better; they definitely felt
stronger and less brittle, and there was less splitting while cutting them. The
ridges were still present, but seemed to be less visible. I continued to apply
this treatment every once in a while to keep the nails in shape, and it really
made them healthy and strong in the long term.
Similar results were had on my
fingernails, though they rarely are I’m such a bad condition as my toenails. My
fingernails were also stronger and less prone to splitting, which made them a
much better surface for future nail polishes.
In conclusion, a frustrating nail treatment to use with
quite fascinatingly good results. There is so much that is flat-out annoying or
bad with this treatment: the cap that can be almost impossible to open, the tiny,
but long brush that doesn’t do a great job applying the treatment evenly, the
overly goopy, very thick formula that isn’t fun to use at all, and, to top it
all off, this treatment always ends up peeling off by day 3. So, almost 12
hours earlier than when it should be removed, which means that the treatment is
incomplete every time. Oh, it also looks very uneven and just messy on nails.
But, and this is a game-changer, it does actually improve the condition of
nails significantly. It makes them harder, less brittle, and less prone to
splitting. It softens ridges and does restore at least a bit of that natural
shine that nails should have. After 14 days nails are in markedly better
condition, and to keep them that way you just have to keep using this treatment
1-2x a week. So, once you’ve healed your nails it’s pretty simple to keep them
healthy without all the hassle of the first 14 days. However, given how
annoying it is to use and how horribly thick the formula is, I have slowly, but
surely started to forget to keep applying it. I just can’t bring myself to do
it for another 14 days when it’s got so many problems. Shame, since it’s one of
the very few products that actually repair my nails, especially my toenails, noticeably.
I will only recommend it if you have severely damaged nails, otherwise, it’s
just too much of a hassle to use. So, only in the most dire of situations would
I actually use it.
Rating: 6/10
Would buy again? Probably NO
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