You really have to try this... Shellac

It’s been a while since a beauty product has attracted quite as much excitement and conjecture as Shellac.
The creation of CND (Creative Nail Design), it is the first hybrid nail colour, launched after nearly five years of development in the company’s state-of-the-art laboratory. This revolutionary product applies like polish, wears flawlessly for 14 days of high gloss shine – no chips, no smudges - and is removed in minutes. A hybrid of traditional nail polish and UV gel polish, unlike soak-off gels it comes in a polish bottle and unlike traditional polish it cures/dries under a UV lamp.
Shellac paints on like a normal polish – base coat, colour, top coat – and is cured in a UV light so there is no dry time. And the greenie in me loves the fact that the colours are hypoallergenic and free of nasties i.e. no formaldehyde, toluene or DBP. They are launching with a range of 12 varieties of shades - from delicate, wedding-style pinks and whites, to cherry red and a true noir – but will be adding another 12 to the range come January. The formula is thin and flexible like polish, so looks natural, as well as being so strong that next to nothing will dent it. And the process involves zero buff time, meaning absolutely no damage to the natural nail in the process. The polish dries completely in only two minutes. And I mean completely – you can grab your keys and swipe your charge card without fear of disaster.
For someone like me who avoids manicures due to my amazing propensity to smoosh the damn things in the first hour, this is a godsend. Sure you have to return to the salon to have the colour removed and there is a limited polish range, but for all those women who left the salon because their manicures chipped in a few days like me, Shellac will seduce you like no other. It’s expected that a Shellac manicure will run from $40-$65 too, so is a luxury you can afford. I can’t wait to get the full salon run down for my area… I’ll be in there like a shot!