DIY Dip Powder Nails | Best Starter Kit?

[Music] hey guys welcome back i am actually really excited to do this video for you guys you may have heard me talk about this it's the um color club serendipity nail kit i got it at walmart i was pretty terrified to film this because uh of the price point i'm going to leave all the info down in the description box on my left hand right now is peppy gel i'll leave all their info down there as well but i'm going to put this up here on the screen for you and show you how much this is on walmart.com which is where i got it you get two colors and the liquids and a buffer for 21 bucks i think it was actually on sale when i got it i think it was about 18 when i purchased it so the price point is ridiculous and i was like how good could this be you know for like 20 bucks and i'm going to tell you i'm going to give you my 100 honest as always first impression and i will be conducting a full wear test because this box right here here are the instructions there's no pamphlet that comes with it it's just on the back of the box but on the box it does say 21 day wear and i'm like all right i'll play so we're gonna get into it um you do get this base gloss whatever it's your base in your top coat you get your activator and you get a brush cleanser i did not need to use the brush cleanser so i can't speak to how that works which is a good thing you know you don't really want to have to use the brush cleanser when you're doing this if you have to use it you probably screwed something up so i'm going to talk to you about the entire application for those of you who have been with me for a minute you may appreciate the length of this video i haven't done you know a half hour long video in quite some time but it's it's going to be that way because i wanted to give you as much info and i want you to see as much as possible these two colors are the colors that came with the kit and i'll be using both of them they are uh thermal changers and it didn't come with this buffing block it's a buffing i don't know i'm not super impressed i probably wouldn't use it again but you'll you'll see coming up here in a little bit i want to talk to you real quick first about the powders now for someone like me i keep my nails kind of short you guys know and for that reason thermal changers don't really work for me because my whole nail is pretty much nail bed and it's warm so it's not off and i live in florida so it's not often i'm in a situation where my nails are cold um but if you are if you're in a colder climate or if you have longer nails um you're gonna see a nice color shift but for me it was pretty much they're just one color so i'm going to go ahead and mix these up and get started on my application and i'm going to give you my feedback on i guess a couple of different points um the liquids and how they perform i'm going to give you my opinion about the powder and how the powder performs and i am going to give you my opinion on overall ease of application and the wear test and that will come at the end of the video um you know as of right now i've only had this on for a day as i'm starting this voice over so i will wear these as long as i possibly can i'm going to wear them until it's no longer safe to wear them and that means lifting um you know or breakage whatever hopefully that doesn't happen because i will be upset but we'll see how this goes for now i'm gonna get started with the liquids and going in with this reminds me of a lava lamp sorry i'm just mesmerized i feel like you can tell a little bit of a thickness too by the speed at which the bubble moves so i can already gauge that this is going to be a little bit of a thicker formula and i was right and it is it kind of had the consistency of like a lacquer topcoat it wasn't super thin like i'm very accustomed to triple vitamin and delicious and peppy gel you know and they're all thinner formulas so i wasn't very accustomed to using a thicker type base liquid but it did have its benefits for someone who is just starting out oh by the way if you're new hi there hello i'm marla chris thank you for watching my video and if you like male shenanigans please consider subscribing and if you like this video go ahead and give it a thumbs up anyway i'm awkward um so if you're new and you are looking for you know um a good beginner liquid this might be a good option because of its consistency i didn't find it was very prone to run into my sidewalls or my cuticle area so i think for a beginner liquid great option and here you can see a little bit of that color shift where it's light lavender on my nail bed like my nail plate and it's got that darker hue towards the free edge that's that thermal color shift and this is the only time it happened i've been wearing them again like i said for like a whole day it's been almost a full 24 hours as of right now and they are just the colors that they are that you will see in the thumbnail and my final reveal photos i'm gonna move on and i'm gonna do um three nails in this lavender color and then two nails in the blue green color and um yeah here's a close-up so i don't know if you can gauge the consistency from seeing it at this angle but yeah it's a little bit thicker i didn't hate it it wasn't overwhelmingly strong either i would say as far as odor goes it was closely it closely resembled that of like rossi or maybe even pepe gel which doesn't have a strong odor it didn't offend me um if you are very very sensitive like if you're prone to dip flu um you may want to wear a mask at least work in a ventilated area but again it wasn't it wasn't super bad super bad super bad anyone watched that movie i don't think i've ever seen that movie is it called super bad oh wait no anyway uh i will press on and i will um do my first dip on my nails i'll get excess off and then i'll go in her round two and i am going to do three coats of this color i am not doing a clear cap didn't do a clear cat for a reason one uh it didn't come with the kit and two i really wanted to see the durability of this powder by itself because i know not everybody uses a clear coat on top so we'll see how it goes i'm going to let you guys watch for a little bit and i will be right back room [Music] so [Music] so i'm going in now with coat number three and again this is an optional step um i did it for two reasons one again there was no clear coat so i couldn't clear cap this uh you know for extra strength and durability but also it i don't know maybe it's just my eyes who knows i i really wanted this to be opaque and not at all translucent or transparent so i just felt like maybe three dips would have been it for me and you know i'll show you towards the end what the thickness is like uh if they're not overly thick at all they're pretty much the same thickness that my nails typically are when i do two dips of color and one dip of clear um i did use my e-file like i always do but again that's just me and i also wanted to see you know if going over with the e-file and not having a clear cap on top would make it like make the color patchy or whatever and you'll see all that towards the end of the video what i want to talk to you about right now just very briefly as i want to talk about the consistency of the powders and i noticed this immediately with the first color and then verified it with the second color that these powders are amazing i can't believe i'm saying that about walmart dip powder but they were good they reminded me a little bit of panda dips they are very buttery and creamy and soft and they're not chalky at all um they laid very evenly and you know very nicely on the nail i mean i know that usually that's more like a a base liquid type thing than a powder thing you know the way your powder sits is most likely because of the base you put underneath it but the combination it just worked really really well i was honestly shocked and super impressed i'm going in now with my activator just to you know generally activate and again i know i've heard people of having issues with activator sometimes where you go to file and it takes the dip off and things like start crumbling i've had that happen before uh you know eons ago and i don't remember which liquid it was with but i haven't had a problem since then and again this activator i had zero issues with i did it the normal way i always do where i go in with two coats of activator and zero problems zero complaints activated and cured just fine so i'm gonna go in now with the second color and i was nervous yet again because it says it's a green and you know how i feel about greens but actually if you guys have seen and i'll link it up here the video i did or the photo i have of uh using revel's electric i think it's called it's a glow dip powder um i'll i'll link a picture over here somewhere but the color of this powder when it's warm as my nails always are it reminds me almost exactly of rebels electric and i love it so much like electric was probably one of my favorite colors it's like a very um tealy like sea blue green type color and it's gorgeous and i love it so good um so i'm gonna let you guys watch me do my application with this color and i'll be back with you guys in just a bit [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] so while i am speeding through my second and my third dip of this color from color club wanted to just chat with you guys real quick about some of the other stuff i have coming up i have nothing as of right now on my calendar however i do have some stuff i want to play with i will be doing a lot of your subscriber requests but in addition to that i have a couple of other reviews that i'm going to be doing um i will be doing this beyond polish mystery box review and unboxing i also have i don't know if you guys have seen on instagram lately a company called i believe it's actually called serendipity um not related at all to the product i'm using right now it's a separate company and they do like born pretty type stuff so i did order a starter kit um that i will be doing an unboxing and review of um it was also contacted by a company called light in the box i think um they reached out to me and from what i can tell they look kind of like a aliexpress or a wish type company they are based in china but they reached out to me and wanted to do a collab and send me some stuff so hopefully i'll be receiving those soon and i can get a review up for that so that's just some of the stuff i have coming up for you guys as always if there's anything that you want to see or you want me to see you want to see me review or techniques to do or designs or whatever um definitely either shoot me an email i'll leave my email address over here on the screen and in my description box you can shoot me an email you can dm me on instagram my ig is marla chris underscore dips um or you can leave a comment comments sometimes get lost so dm or instagram probably with dmr instagram same thing marla either dm me or email me um if you have any questions of course i'm having any issues i'm not a nail tech i'm not licensed i have very minimal knowledge of nail related stuff aside from products that i've used but you can always shoot me an email if there's anything you have questions on if there are products they have questions on i do give my 100 honest opinions on my channel and in my instagram so if i don't like something i will tell you and if i am in love with something i will tell you that too so yep i'll leave everything in my description box for you email ig my p.o box if you all want to send me stuff i'm happy to receive gifts at any time so just throwing that out there i'm going to go ahead and start filing this kit did not come with an e honey file duh it didn't come with a hand file either just a buffing block so i'm gonna go ahead with my macart 100 100 grit file it's my favorite nail file i've touched on this once before i do not like the 100 180 files typically because i never use the 180 side i do not use this on my natural nail ever i do not file my natural nails period end of discussion i find that it's super unhealthy for my nails filing your bare naked nail can cause the free edge to fray which can cause your nail to peel therefore get weak and thin and break so i don't file my nails without product over them if i have to for whatever reason i use a glass file but this is only for my acrylics so i use a rough one um i'll leave a link for that in the description box as well um my e-file is still currently unavailable i don't know why i don't know if it will be restocked but i will leave in my description box some alternative e-files while i have not used them and can't speak to their effectiveness i have used other e-files by other brands and they might be okay but i don't know so take that with a grain of salt anyway speaking of e-files grabbing mine right now again the bit that i use to do my contouring and my cuticle cleanup work i did get these bits with my nat plus e file i to the best of my knowledge these exact bits or bits that are super similar do come with your e-files in that little bitty you know bit kit that usually comes with an e-file if you i will leave a link for a similar set in the description box but um it is a diamond cylinder or diamond barrel e-file bit uh you can i have not been able to find it on its own on amazon you can probably find it on aliexpress i have very little patience with aliexpress just because you know i've ordered stuff from them before and while i've always gotten my stuff i'm not the type that wants to wait around for six to eight weeks for something to come because by then i will probably have forgotten about it or found it somewhere else and no longer need it that's me um yeah i'm gonna let you guys watch me e-file for a bit and i'll be right back and we'll talk top coat and all that fun stuff so hang tight and i will be right back [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay so i've gotten all my e-filing done and again you can absolutely use your favorite hand file to do all that contouring and cuticle work and whatever i prefer the e file for two reasons one i find like it's a huge time saver for me and i am much better with an e-file than i am with a hand file and i like my cuticles and i tear them up with a hand file so it's just my personal preference you can absolutely use your hand file to do all that smoothing work on top so i've got my buffer block out and i have no idea what side is what because you know the label on it came off you know we have to take it off in order to use the buffer block so i don't know what's what um i did find the coarse side so i went in with that first just to take away any of like those demarcation lines uh i've gotten or may have gotten from my e-file and then i'm gonna go in with the smoother side and i'm going to just buff it out make it nice and smooth and so there's no texture on it and i'll go in with the top coat which is the base coat so it's like a two in one product to the best of my knowledge with you know every dip system the dip base and the dipped top coat are essentially the same thing they're both resin-based which means they are both glue and the first thing i'm going to do is take my activator and do one more coat of activator um contrary to popular belief this does not like double cure your nail i mean it might but that's not the purpose of it the purpose of the activator is to set the top coat and give it that really glossy quick dry finish so i'm gonna let that dry for just you know a minute or two uh two minutes is usually a good magic mark for me and then i'll go in with a dry paper towel and just get off any excess there might be this will you know pretty much help your brush to not get hard after it comes in contact with the activator so now we're gonna go in with our base slash top coat and i'm doing this the same way that i do when i do you know like my peppy gel applications i do one like two to three stroke quick ish i say quick as you can see i'm not very quick i should be but i'm not um just two to three strokes wipe your brush off and then you can go for your you know next nail i wipe the brush off mostly just to avoid contamination i don't want my brush to get hard because it hit the activator and activator dries the base so you put two and two together you wind up with a hard brush and hard brush can also equate to a very very gummy and gelatinous face slash top coat if you put that brush back in the bottle so definitely do clean your brush between each nail i'm sure that's probably optional when you do your second coat but i do it anyway just to always play on the safe side i'd rather just wipe my brush off between each nail then not and have a problem and then have to buff it all out and do top coat all over again so in my mind i'm just saving myself a potential headache i'd rather play it safe so i'm going in with my second coat and you can do this pretty quickly after the first coat you'll see on your nail surface it'll start to look i don't want to say like wrinkly but like maybe your skin is dehydrated and you've been sitting in the sun for too long it gets like that leathery type texture and then you can go with your second coat and the final coat second coat is final coat just for clarification and i'm gonna go ahead and let that dry i'm gonna kind of real time this for you so you can see how long it took the top coat to dry if i stop this here i think it's probably a good three minutes which is not very long in the grand scheme of things it seems like it takes forever to dry because three minutes when you're doing nothing is like the longest three minutes of your life uh i speak from experience especially when it comes to like presentations i have to do in school like they give you a presentation to do and it has to be at least like three or four minutes long and you're like oh three or four minutes nothing that's nothing it's not nothing when you're standing up there trying to figure out what to talk about for three or four minutes it's like pulling random nonsense information out of out of my ass essentially just to fill up the time but so you guys saw a little bit of what the colors look like and this is the color my nails have stayed since i've put it on again i've been wearing this for about 24 hours and don't go anywhere um because i'm gonna give you video updates at the end and you'll see uh how long they lasted and what they look like after i wore them for however long i wear them for don't know haven't done it yet we shall see so they are pretty much dry now here you can see the thickness of my nails and as you can see they're not crazy thick with the three dips um not you know anything dissimilar from how my nails typically look when i do two coats of color and then one coat of clear so everything so far is status quo i did give it the old ben test and i'm doing it right now and they are they're freaking hard man they're not flimsy like remember the review i did of the bella sky from aliexpress where they were super bendy even with a gel top coat on top not the case here they are super strong super hard and i feel completely confident wearing these nails for the next couple of weeks so we'll see what happens i'm going to continue letting my nails dry again longest three minutes ever just sitting and waiting sit and wait sit and wait if you guys are moms you may know what that song is i'm not gonna say any more because it's quite gross you can youtube uh like the potty song or the poop song i don't know where it is my kids used to sing it all the time it will be forever ingrained in my brain anyways i'm gonna grab my candy skincare cuticle oil just like i always do and i'm going to finish off my mani and i'm gonna let you guys watch me finish up my cuticle oil and i will come back in a couple of weeks after i've had them on so don't go anywhere stay tuned for an update i will see you guys in a minute [Music] all right guys so i've had this mani on for about two weeks uh it's not the 21 days they claim it can last i did see a little bit of lifting starting so of course i panicked and i wanted to get them off asap because i didn't want you know those nasty little greenies or whatever but still 13 days with minimal prep i really can't complain so this absolutely has my vote so far for best most inexpensive starter kit that i have ever used or seen so got the marlacres seal of approval i hope you guys enjoy this and found it helpful i will see you all in my next vid i love you bye [Music] you

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Length: 30min 3sec (1803 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 30 2020