Non-toxic Nail Polish

This is a follow up to my initial Non-toxic Nail Polish video where I discussed the harmful ingredients present in mainstream brands. I have been testing different non-toxic brands over the past few months and have found that most are just as good of quality compared to the likes of Essie, Chanel, and OPI.

 I have yet to try the highly touted water based Acquarella (shipment is in the mail). My first purchase, and to this day, the longest lasting and overall best quality was a brand I found at Whole Foods called NoMiss. I purchased two bottles, unfortunately since then they've stopped carrying it! NoMiss is still available online, but I loved the convenience of picking up a baby pink nail polish while grabbing my OJ and mixed greens.

Both NoMiss colors I tried went on evenly and dried nicely. They didn't chip at all for a good 3 days which for me is excellent since I am really rough on my hands (cleaning, playing piano, typing, etc.) and am not necessarily paying attention to the fact that I'm wearing polish. My nails always chip at the very top so the easiest solution is to give them a quick file and they're like new. I could stretch my NoMiss mani for a solid week with in between filing and it still looked fresh.

 On to Zoya...I really love their customer service and ordering online is a cinch. Their colors are to die-  I would compare this brand as the OPI of non-toxic nail polish - due to the color variety and growing mainstream populartiy. The Zoya mani I used was the color Gia - a must have cherry red that looks good on every skintone (middle color in photo). By the second day the color was chipping. By the 4th day I added an extra coat just to try and drag out the mani... by day 6 I changed out the color. However, I recently got a pedicure with Zoya nail polish in Noel - and lasted 2+ weeks no chips. Disclaimer ...I don't and rarely ever use top or base coat for my manis, however I will start using a top coat for Zoya.  Zoya colors are so fun and vibrant, and relatively cheap for a bottle (about $7 each)

My last and most recent find was from Julep. I was sucked into their Shades of Grey promo - $19.99 for 3 shades of Grey. We all know what these shades are about by now.... but getting back to the nailpolish. I love the long skinny tube idea, taking up less shelf space scores mucho brownie points for me. The first coat was running into my cuticle, I wouldn't necessarily say it is a thin formula, but for some reason the first coat runs off a bit. Second coat I had no problems. I am impressed with Julep mani staying power - I think I'm on day 4 right now and I'll prob stretch it a couple more days.