KBShimmer - Magic Trio

*Gift - Not For Review

*These products are Cruelty Free 

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Okay, so what I'm going to show you isn't technically called "Magic Trio." I just called them that myself. I decided to do a true test on 3 products and the results astounded me.

Now some of you know this and some of you don't, but I really don't use base coats and treatments. I rarely file my nails. When they need cutting, I use a big ol' pair of scissors. If I have to file, I use one of those 4-in-1 buffer blocks and cringe the entire time.

When I got these, I thought how sweet it was and wanted to try them, but figured I'd never really get around to them. Other than the top coat that is. It's one of my favorite top coats.

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But how to test them for real when I don't really use base coats? The ones I've tried in the past weren't bad necessarily, just FOR ME, not really worth the extra effort for the payoff.

But then I had an idea! (Run for your lives!)

Rescue Beauty Lounge polishes are really unique and pretty and I've bought and loved quite a few of them but I don't wear them because, on ME, they don't even last an hour. That's not really a problem I have with most polishes. I go without base coat and I can put on almost any other polish and at most, have minor tip wear after a day or so. But with RBLs, I get such significant tip wear within an hour not even DOING anything that they just sit on my shelves, unused. And I know it's body chemistry because they don't seem to do this on most other people.

I really wanted to wear Stormy and I didn't plan on swatching for a few days, so I decided to put the KBShimmer Trio to the test.

Here's RBL Stormy - I used the KBShimmer Nail Prep - a pH Balancing prep. It's a very thin, quick drying treatment that almost dries like a rubbing alcohol would. No wait time at all. Then I used the KBShimmer Basic Training Base Coat and let it dry before applying two light coats of RBL Stormy and one coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top Top Coat.

Isn't she pretty?

So that's Day 1.

I did dishes, laundry, regular weekend house cleaning...

Day 3

VERY minor tip wear is ALL!

And then the REAL test.

I built a nail polish rack in my garage. I try to wear gloves but you know how that goes. Plus you can't use wood putty to cover nail/screw holes and stuff with gloves, so about 95% of it was done, including sanding, without gloves. You can imagine what my nails are going to look like after all that.

BUT YOU WOULD BE WRONG!

This is Day 4 - after the nail polish rack, more dishes, washing hair, etc...

DAY FOUR, PEOPLE!

I honestly never thought I would be able to wear my pretty RBLs but I had NO chips at all and yeah I had tip wear, but after all that, I really thought it would be a lot worse. And check out the shine they still have. Yeah, they're a little more dull than Day 1, but seriously? I was floored.

I've tried all the base coats but this is the first one, along with the pH Balancing pre-polish treatment, that I know I'll wear a lot. Not for swatching or polishes I'm just going to wear for a day because I'm lazy like that, but now that I know I'll be able to have a good-looking mani for more than a day or so, I'll be doing it a lot more often.

These products weren't something I intended on blogging about and were not sent for review, but when I find something this great, I knew I needed to share.

What do you think? Is this something you will try? I'm super excited to be able to wear my RBLs now and I'm sure those aren't the only polishes I'll be sporting for more than a day now! I mean I love doing my nails, but every single day does get old after a while. So that is why I'm calling these the KBShimmer Magic Trio.

You can check them out at the KBShimmer website here - they retail for $5 each and I don't know if they're offered as a set or not but you can follow KBShimmer on Facebook for more information.

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