Review: Seche Vite dry fast top coat

Another one of the gems that I bought during the smoochiezz flea.

From the website:

• Seche Vite™ dry fast top coat is widely acknowledged as the world's finest top coat. Specially formulated to penetrate through nail lacquer to the base coat forming a single solid coating over the nail plate for a much more durable finish. Guaranteed not to yellow while leaving nails silky, stronger and resistant to chipping and peeling.

So it promises 4 nail terrors busters: more durable finish, silky nails, stronger nails and nail polish being resistant to chipping and peeling.

Sometimes when a product promises so many benefits, I go all defensive and will refuse to purchase it. This product however actually DELIVERS. I'm quite impressed actually, and I am on a confused state right now because I want to paint my nails and have it glistening in the shortest amount of time but I also do not want to paint my nails because I will hate to see this product get used up. AH THE AGONY.

Normally, I don't paint my nails that often because:

1. I cannot sit still for even 5 minutes. The chances of me smudging my newly-painted nails are as high as they can go.
2. I hate waiting for the nailpolish to dry proper before applying the topcoat. This creates those tiny irritating bubbles on the surface because premature topcoat application will trap the air molecules more! When that happens, I just remove everything. =.=
3. My topcoat gets all yellow and weird. I DON'T LIKE TO PUT WEIRD THINGS ON MY NAILS.

And so, I avoid painting my nails.

AND THEN IT ALL CHANGED WHEN THIS ARRIVED IN MY WORLD.

Here's how the actual Seche Vite dry fast top coat looks like. It's quite tiny, but you do not need to use a lot of product each time, so I guess it will last quite long.

The one factor that I'm most impressed about is how fast it dries! Usually even with the topcoat applied, your nail may appear dry on the surface, but when you add a little pressure, the nailpolish will budge. However, with this, my nailpolish+topcoat were dry after 30 seconds? And I mean dry DRY, as in no-matter-how-you-rub-also-will-not-budge dry. Major major impressed.

I have the tendency to bite my nails when I'm watching dramas (LOL) so at best, my nailpolish can last me around 2 days without any "injuries" like chipping or peeling. With this applied on, my nails looked perfect for 3 days. In fear of future "injuries", I applied another layer on the 4th day, and my nails ended up lasting for an entire week WITH AN ADEQUATE AMOUNT OF NAIL-BITING. WOAH. :)

Here's a photo of how my thumb look like after the full application. I swear it's at least two times shinier than what is shown; my camera can't really capture it because I don't have studio lighting! :(

I took the above photo moments after application. After meddling with the camera settings and then completing the photo-taking (around 30 seconds), I slid my other thumb over it and it was miraculously dry. WOW.

I bought the Seche Vite dry fast top coat for around S$11-12 during the flea, and I think it's available for purchase on smoochiezz's website! :)