Nail polish smudge with insect repellant/sunscreen?

[From a land down under]

Hellooo,

Sometimes when I use insect repellant, or sunscreens my nail polish smudges. It's like it 'unsets' it and it can smudge and go yucky. Can anyone recommend a top coat that doesn't do this?

This has also happened when I've had acrylics with some similar products too.

I always use a topcoat but was wondering if anyone had any advice?

Don't want to pay repeated visits to spa to fix my nails or be drying my nails for half the trip. ;)

[cruizinmimi]

When I used to have acrylic nails and I would have color put on and then go on a cruise, the sunscreen would cloud the color and make it look awful. Bugspray also would do that. I told my nail tech this and she put something on top and put me under a different light to dry. She then talked me into stop putting color on my nails and just do a natural solar gel nail. Nothing would discolor them. They looked beautiful and I could go once a month for fills.

 

Gee, I miss my solar nails:(

[madhouseinc]

When I used to have acrylic nails and I would have color put on and then go on a cruise, the sunscreen would cloud the color and make it look awful. Bugspray also would do that. I told my nail tech this and she put something on top and put me under a different light to dry. She then talked me into stop putting color on my nails and just do a natural solar gel nail. Nothing would discolor them. They looked beautiful and I could go once a month for fills.

 

Gee, I miss my solar nails:(

 

They sounds great - ah - why did you stop? Too expensive (please forgive me for being personal)

[cruizinmimi]

Hi Jeri,

 

No, it wasn't too expensive. My DH kept telling me I couldn't grow real nails, so after our cruise on the Freedom I took them off and I'm proving him wrong:D I do miss the way my nails looked when I was going for the solar nails. They looked so natural. My nails are growing, but they look stubby:( . I find that I pick at them all the time now and when I had my acrylic nails, I didn't.

[From a land down under]

I think you're talking about the gel coats which is dried under the UV light? Hmmm. Maybe for upcoming cruise french tips with this special overlay might be the order of the day. Thanks for reminding me.

Any other tips? (Pardon the pun).

[PhoenixCruiser]

I've worn acrylic nails for over 12 years, OPI polish and diamond-dry clear coating works great for me :)

 

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[JmzandJojo]

Hi Jeri,

 

No, it wasn't too expensive. My DH kept telling me I couldn't grow real nails, so after our cruise on the Freedom I took them off and I'm proving him wrong:D I do miss the way my nails looked when I was going for the solar nails. They looked so natural. My nails are growing, but they look stubby:( . I find that I pick at them all the time now and when I had my acrylic nails, I didn't.

 

Look for a product called NailTek Formula #2 . It's the only product that has ever worked for me. I owned a nail salon for years and wore gels and acrylics because i am a nailbiter. When I began using the Nailtek my nails hardened and grew like weeds. They have several formulas, one is specifically for nails after artificals. They carry it at Eckerd's here now, or a beauty supply may have it.

[GORDONCHICK]

Hellooo,

Sometimes when I use insect repellant, or sunscreens my nail polish smudges. It's like it 'unsets' it and it can smudge and go yucky. Can anyone recommend a top coat that doesn't do this?

This has also happened when I've had acrylics with some similar products too.

I always use a topcoat but was wondering if anyone had any advice?

Don't want to pay repeated visits to spa to fix my nails or be drying my nails for half the trip. ;)

 

I have not found any nail products or brands that insect repellant don't affect this way, especially with the spray repellants.