Hello everyone,

As some of you may recall, last month I entered my Very Hungry Caterpillar Nail Art into Avon’s ‘Perfectly Polished’ nail art competition.  Though I didn’t win the main prize, I was lucky enough to be chosen from hundreds of entries to win a bottle of Avon’s new Nailwear Pro+ Nail Enamel!  I won because the judges chose my design as one of the best 50 entered, which I’m very happy about :)

Avon’s Nailwear Pro+ range features a wide range of stunning shades and boasts an improved formula to the old Nailwear Pro range.  I have quite a few Nailwear Pro varnishes which I quite like, so I was looking forward to seeing whether the Pro+ really is better.  The shade I was sent as my prize is ‘Cosmic Blue’.

In the bottle, ‘Cosmic Blue’ looks quite similar to the old Nailwear shade ‘Blue Shock’, just slightly darker.  ‘Blue Shock’ was VERY watery in consistency and it took about four coats to achieve an opaque look with it, so I was a bit worried this would be the same, however, it isn’t!  When I first applied ‘Cosmic Blue’ I did think it was quite thin, but it only took two coats for it to be completely opaque.  So obviously the formula has been improved!  I guess the thin consistency doesn’t matter too much as it stops it going gloopy and it spreads easily.  At first I kept wiping too much off the brush just in case it dripped, meaning it wasn’t holding enough paint to cover one nail, but that was soon fixed as my confidence in the product grew :)

As you can see, the ‘Cosmic Blue’ colour is VERY striking!  I absolutely adore it.  Inside the house it looks like a luscious royal blue, which is lovely in itself, but once you get outside it just explodes with aquatic depth and shimmer – I just can’t take my eyes off it.  In fact, I think it’s now my favourite blue nail varnish out of all the blues that I own, and I own a few.

The nail enamel dries fairly quickly too.  I’ll admit, it’s not the fastest (the first time I applied it I smudged it as I started getting changed before it had fully dried), but it dries a LOT quicker than most nail varnishes I’ve tried, especially once your top coat is applied.  From what I can tell it lasts a while too.  So far it hasn’t chipped at all, which is also testament to the improved formula as the old Nailwear Pro would chip early on.  Give it a few days though and I’ll let you know what it looks like then haha.

Basically, it is really obvious to me after trying this that Avon have indeed improved their nail enamel formula, and the colours have far more depth to them now than they used to.  Bravo, Avon!

Will you be trying the new Nailwear Pro+?

Naomi xx