Hello or Aloha everyone! Today we will be taking a look at a new to me brand called Kapa Nui. This is a brand that is suppose to be healthier for you, free of toxins, fume- fee, body and planet safe, and a lot of other better for you clams. Along with being made in Hawaii. I found this brand on Facebook and was interested in them really because they are made in Hawaii, I honestly don't really care for the "healthy for you/ better for you" brands, it really doesn't matter to me.
Also Kapa Nui in Hawaiian means Grand Covering.
Let's take a look at the polishes that I got. On the Kapa Nui website they an option to get different collections; ones that are already set up for you, or the set that I got the personalized collection. As for the personalized collection you can pick any three polishes from the list that they have. I went for I guess a more ocean theme.
In this collection it includes, three polishes that you can pick, nail polish remover, top and base coat (all in one), cuticle pusher, remover pads, and a caring case/ bag.
The polishes them self come in a small bottle 9ml/0.3 fl.oz. The bottle themselves are nice with a wood look to them.
Their base and top coat is an all in one and is 15ml/ 0.5fl.oz, which is a bigger size. This topcoat is not like other topcoat, when you apply the base/ top coat it does't look like anything is going on the nails, and to me it does have an alcohol smell to it, and in the bottle it just looks like water. It does only have 2 ingredients in it 1-methoxy & 2-propanol, not sure what those are because I don't know anything about those ingredients.
Lastly in this set they also included a free mini size of the shine finishing coat (shine top coat). This was another on that did not apply like any topcoat. I honestly did not like this at all. I tried this on my swatch nails and it looked bad. That I am glad I didn't use this on my actual nails.
As you can see on this polish it looks like it has cracked.
This nail I didn't use the shine coat and it looks fine. So I would skip the shine coat and just get the top & base.
Their was also a card in the collection bag to that was a nice touch just saying Mahalo/ Thank you and then on the back how to us the polish and remover.
The one thing I do have to say about the instructions on the back is they say cure time. As someone that is a licensees nail tech, regular nail polish does not cure, this is a term used for gel polish that you cure under LED lamp. Regular polish just dries by air it doesn't cure.
Anyways let's take a look at the polishes.
Kailua Bay is a light ocean blue cream polish. Kailua Bay is a beach on Oahu, where the water are turquoise and the sand is powdery white (according to Kapa Nui website). This polish applied well in two coats, when I applied this I felt like I was applying acrylic paint to my nails. As you can tell I had a hard time cleaning this polish up around the nails and cuticles (I am not perfect at polishing) I tried their remover and a regular remover with very little luck. I finally just had to scrap the sides of the finger and just leave the cuticles.
Next we have Molokini Mermaid a glitter shimmer teal polish. Molokini is a island off of Maui. This applied okay in three coats. This one was also har to clean top around the nails and cuticles. This polish is pretty and reminds me of the ocean in Hawaii.
Lastly we have Anini a greenish, turquoise shimmer metal polish. Anini is a beach on the Island of Kaua'i. This polish applied well in two coats and was a little better or I just polish better with this one.
With all of these polishes I wanted to test if they would work well with my usual top and base the CND sticky base and CND top coat, along with thier base and top coat. Well that did not go well at all, on my right had I applied the CND top and base coat with the Kapu Nui polish, it started to chip right way the next day I could peel off all of my polish.
On my left hand I use the Kapa Nui top and base, it was a little betters still had some chipping through out the week, regular polish last very well on me, with little to no chipping though out the week.
Then when it came to removing the polish that was very hard. I used their remover like it said and it took what seem like forever to remover, probably half an hour. I was thinking maybe it was user error, then I looked at reviews on Facebook and some other people had the same issue removing their polish. At one point I actually had to scrap the polish off of my nails, which is not good.
In conclusion I like the idea and look of they collection, that you can pick any three polishes that you want and the look of the set is pretty and reminds me of Hawaii. The polishes them self I was not happy with. They are pretty, but don't wear well and are very hard to remove. I personal think even though Kapa Nui says to use their system, that you should still be able to use your usual top and base and the polish should not be so hard to remove.
So unfortunately I will not be purchasing any more of these polishes, honestly if I could I would return this set, but on the website they have a month return policy, and I am pass the month of having these. I guess that maybe I will try and get these to work, I really don't know. I really did want to like these polishes, they where not cheap or affordable either, they where kind of pricey for what they are.
Lastly is there really a "better for you nail polish" because nail polish now days don't have the dangerous chemicals in them anyways. I personally like the Zoya that is 10 free of a lot of the bad chemicals that some polishes have. Also I think if you are worried about nail polish being bad, just don't wear it.
Anyways I will still leave a link to the website, maybe these polishes could work out better for you, or maybe you like the better for you nail polish.
kapanuinails- personalized polish collection originally $74.50 on sale as of this post $65.00
They also have where you can get savings 10%, 15%, 20% buy 1 get 1 free and $5 gift card.
The individual polishes cost $10.50 each USD.
Hope this review was somewhat helpful even though it didn't go to well for me.
See you next time for more polish fun!
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