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ANNY Nail Polish Midi [322.50 - Digital Giant] Review

By Maychiri's Thoughts - October 14, 2025

Oh my! Another ANNY, because I am kinda hooked on them! This is the ANNY Nail Polish Midi, in the shade 322.50/Digital Giant!
 
 
Ah, judging by the names of the polishes in this collection, this is a Metaverse-inspired collection, yes? All 6 shades part of this collection have very cyber-like names. This makes me excited! Makeup inspired by the cyber-world tends to be very interesting! I had a very hard time deciding whether I should get this silvery shade or the brassy Meta(l) Hero... but I figured that silver would suit my skintone better than that greenish gold would. And it’s a classic anyways. You can’t go wrong with metallic silver... right? I sure hope so! The previous ANNY I used wasn’t metallic, so I don’t know what their metallic formulas are like... so time to find out! I cannot wait to try this out, especially after seeing Fantastic Four: First Steps in the theatre! I am feeling distinctly silvery right now and this nail polish is looking like it may scratch that itch perfectly! Now, let’s immerse ourselves into the digital frontier and test out this, hopefully great, nail polish!
 
 
 
 
Packaging: cute little cuboid bottle! I love the form factor of the Midi ANNYs, it is so stout and adorable! It is relatively heavy for its small size. I like the addition of the little step up next to the cap, it adds some geometric elegance to an otherwise simple bottle. No details whatsoever, apart from the ANNY logo, which is white – despite this being a metallic silver nail polish, the white is clearly visible. Still, I think that the black of the cap fits better. The cap closes extremely tightly, to prevent unnecessary drying out. Simple, but cute! 
 
 
 
 
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Ingredients: nothing nourishing, 3-free (DBP, formaldehyde, toluene). Assuming that I found the right ingredients list, which is harder than it may seem for ANNYs. Seriously, good luck finding it for older nail polishes. The scent is like any other nail polish, with a hint of vinegar. Though it is less intense than other nail polishes. The expiration date is 24 months after opening.
 
 
 
 
Brush: oh, what a great little brush! I cannot remember whether the previous ANNY I used had this kind of brush, but in any case, this brush is amazing! It picks up a ton of nail polish, so you’d do well to tap off the excess, or you might make a mess. As long as there is a right amount of polish on the brush, it doesn’t make any messes around the nails. It is super precise, so you can carefully paint the nails to try and avoid the dreadful brushstrokes (that will happen regardless) as much as possible. The brush applies the nail polish perfectly evenly and thickly and it just turns out perfect with little effort! Oh, how I love this brush!
 
 
 
So, this is a very bright metallic gray, but I wouldn’t exactly say that it’s silver. To me, this is more of a platinum gray, or an aluminium gray. Oh, exactly! This looks like aluminium foil! That’s what it was reminding me of! It was wrecking my brain for so long, haha! In any case, it is a metallic silver colour, which goes fantastically with the whole theme of the Metaverse and cyber-stuff. It really is giving hacker-core. This is a completely neutral undertone silvery gray. There’s really nothing too special about it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t stunning! Because it very much is! So blindingly metallic and beaming gray, I just love it! And it doesn’t wash me out or clash with my skintone. It is so cool, wow! I really do feel like a digital giant with this nail polish on! 
 
 
 
 
Oh my god, this formula! It’s legit perfect! Like, it feels like an expensive nail polish! It is extremely silky and smooth and so goddamn amazing to use, I just adore it! It applies evenly, with not a lot of brushstrokes, which is amazing because this is a metallic nail polish at the end of the day. And speaking of, it literally feels like I am applying a coat of molten, liquid metal on my nails! Though it does feel a bit thin... hope this doesn’t cause problems.
 
 
 
 
 
One coat was already pretty much opaque and it looked perfectly even and thick. Honestly, I would have left it at this, but I always test with two coats, so two coats it is! The second coat did not do much, it just made the colour slightly more vibrant and made it look a bit thicker and richer. But it’s still completely opaque and even, although I am starting to notice some brushstrokes. This is typical for metallic nail polishes, so I am not too fussed over it. It would be better if they weren’t present but eh, it is what it is. The texture is highly metallic, with a very fine graininess to it. It does look like molten metal! And very, like, cybernetic! Cool!
 
 
 
Okay, well, what the hell?! I am seriously angry right now... ANNY, what has gone wrong with this nail polish?! I am used to ANNYs lasting for like a week with no damage so why the hell does this nail polish start chipping off within the first 12 hours. Yes, you read that right, not even a full day after applying it, and it is already in a sorry state. See the photos, that should say enough. Now, to be completely transparent, these photos weren’t taken the morning after painting my nails but the following one; it doesn’t matter, because it was in pretty much the same state the day before. So I don’t want to hear any: “But May, you should have taken a photo on the morning after!!!” No, because it doesn’t matter. In fact, it started being damaged a few hours after painting my nails. 
 
 
I was really gentle with it, trying not to touch it too much, but before bed, I noticed that it felt off on most of the nails on the free edge. Indeed, when I woke up, I found that on all nails, it had receded from the free edge... reminder that this was like 14 hours after painting the damn nails. It just slid right off the free edge. Why??! What the hell! And then, literally an hour later, I saw the first chipping... oh how fabulous, how well and truly fabulous. To pay ~10 € and have this sort of “longevity”, that nail polishes that cost 1 € far surpass? What a joke. And I am the butt of it. I am so pissed. It continued flaking off in large flakes over the next 24 hours, until it was time to remove it. Before a hair wash, it was so damaged that some nails barely had any nail polish left on them. 
 
 
 
 
Of course, a hair wash destroyed what little was left of the nail polish. Well, silver (heh) lining is that now it will be easier to remove it – because there isn’t any nail polish left! What misery. Just a disaster. Ugh. This ain’t it, ANNY. But one good thing is that this nail polish doesn’t really get scratched up... what use is that when most of it will be gone anyways within 48 hours? Like, I know metallic nail polishes can be tricky to nail, but this is flat-out horrendous. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely easy to remove, especially once 90% of it disappears from the nails. But even there where the nail polish stayed, it is super easy to remove. Just a few swipes with remover and that’s it. Thank god, because I don’t want to deal with this miserable nail polish anymore.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
All in all, well, this was a huge waste of time. I don’t get it, I truly don’t. The previous ANNY had spectacular quality, where has that gone? Instead of lasting until the cows come home, proverbially speaking, it lasts all of maybe 2 hours before it starts to either chip or retract from the free edges of nails. I don’t know which of these irritates me more tbh. Both are serious problems. I woke up and all the nails had visible fading on the free edges, like, I could see how far up the nail polish slid! This is unacceptable! And it’s not user error because guess what? 99% of nail polishes don’t do this! Gah! What’s even worse is that it starts to chip within like 15 hours. And it’s not just some tiny chipping that I am making a huge fuss over – I am talking huge flakes coming off one at a time, until the nail only has a tiny smidge of nail polish left... how is this the ANNY quality that I knew from the previous nail polish? Or was that one the aberration, and this is the standard? Honestly, it might have everything to do with the metallic texture – wouldn’t be the first time a metallic nail polish started chipping within the first 24 hours, that’s for sure! Something about the metallic formula just doesn’t work half the time. I don’t know what it is, but I hate it because I love me a good metallic nail polish. And trust me, aside from the longevity being in the rubbish, this is a very gorgeous nail polish! I love the almost aluminium foil silver colour and how it is so bright and in-your-face! Although, again, like many other metallic nail polishes, it suffers from terribly visible brushstrokes, which isn’t ideal at all. The formula felt perfect while I was applying it... maybe I should’ve known that that might be too good to be true. And the brush is so amazing, like, it was all going so well, so smoothly, and then... disaster. Nosedive into disaster. To say I am mad would be an understatement because this did not cost like 1 or 2 euro, so I expected the quality to represent that, but alas. Instead, I got a lousy piece of garbage. Nope, no chance in hell would I ever recommend this one, it is simply terrible. Ugh...
 
 
 
Rating: 3/10
 
 
Would buy again? Hell NO
 














 

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