Sally Hansen Colour Therapy Trial Team

Great minds Misfortune8, I said exactly that in my review 🙂

Aha! I haven`t read the reviews yet. Great minds indeed!

I think perhaps it is the Argan oil that causes the staining. It seems the point of them creating this nail polish is that you use it on bare nails so that the Argan oil can work it`s magic and help improve your nails. I think if I had of had a light colour I probably would have given 4 stars. I settled on 2 stars in the end 🙁 The staining is bad and any extra nourishment by the oil is certainly eliminated by the need to use remover and scrub and buff to try and remove the staining! I also did a bit of research on the RRP for Australia and it appears to be $16.99 (sourced via Priceline and cross checked with Chemist Warehouse). Not the $8.99 that was suggested on the survey. So the price knocked an extra star off for me too (I mentioned this in the survey and the review, seeking clarification from BH or Sally Hansen).

Yes, the price was incorrect in the survey, I wonder if we can amend our answer, because I did say that $8.99 was good value but I don`t think I would pay full price for the polish. I checked the price today at Priceline, after I completed my survey the other day….doh!
CW always has 50% sales so I would wait for a sale to pick up my nude or other colours.

You might be right about the Argan oil making it stain more, it`s like it helped to penetrate the nail more and if the shade was lighter you wouldn`t have noticed it so much.

I`m glad the other beauties has a better experience, it`s good for brands to see real life feedback and hopefully they take the helpful criticism on board to improve their future products.

Gosh you were lucky that you went for soft shades when you got your extra colours, makeupcatxo, when you don`t wear nudes often!! How lucky were we to get colours we loved and will keep using?

Hi Trish,
Thanks for your concern, I`m glad to report that the staining has faded and my nails are almost back to normal. For a while there, I looked like I had really bad circulation, with blue nails. I had to buff them gently and then I used remover for the third time!
I would definitely use a base coat for dark colours, I`ve also painted my toe nails and I`ve yet to remove the polish, so I`ll probably have blue toes too 😛 it`s been 8 days and mani on m toes are still in good nick.

I still really enjoyed the trial and it hasn`t put me off buying more from the range. I`ll probably pick up a pale pink and nude colour.
I`ve done the survey but I haven`t written my reviews yet. I`m in a bit of a quandary of how many stars to rate, it would have been 5 but with the staining, I was thinking 3, is that too low? Hmmmm…. thinking….

Same happened to me Claire! Going to paint my toes in their usual shade of red today lol

I`m painting my toes red tonight too! I wonder if they will look purple with the blue tinge 😛

I am sorry it happened to you too philippa495, I hope your nails recover soon.

Haha we could invent a whole new look with our strange toe colour!

Claire88, I think that rating is fair. After all, we are basing our rating on the experience we had with the particular trial product that we were sent. If my shade of nail polish stained my nails like yours did, I would have given it a 3 Star Rating too. You are doing the correct thing by mentioning that the staining may occur with other Sally Hansen Colour Therapy dark shades based on your trial experience.

Claire, I might not have given even a 3 star rating with the staining problem! It`s such a shame because with the paler colours and even Arty Girl`s reddish colour it`s a beautiful nail polish.

Where to now, Claire? Is it safe to put another colour on top or do you need to give your nails a break for a short time?

Trish, after about 3 days, 3 lots of nail polish remover and buffing my nails, my nails are almost back to normal. Phew, I was relieved! I didn`t know if this was going to be permanent or not. I used cuticle oil and hand cream regularly to get my hands and nails back into shape.My toes nails are still stained blue, it looks like I have very poor circulation! I`ll scrub them again tonight in the shower and use nail polish remover again and I`m hoping that they will look better again.

I`ve painted my fingers nails a pale pinky white, lol another Sally Hansen polish to give them a break 🙂

Did anyone else notice how the survey said that the Sally Hansen Colour Therapy Nail Polish and Top Coat cost $8.99 each ? The question asked whether we thought this price was reasonable and whether we`d buy the Colour Therapy at this price. The thing is….the regular retail price at Priceline is $16.95 (I think), not $8.99. If it really did cost $8.99 in Australia, it would be a reasonable price but $16.95 is a tad expensive for me. I assumed the Sally Hansen Survey we were given were prices quoted in the US and answered that question as if I was living there. So I`m not sure if I answered correctly because I said “”Yes”” to $8.99 if the Colour Therapy Range was at that price here in Australia normally.

I did notice that Arty!
I tend to wait for a sale before I purchase, so I guess I would pay the $8.99 but not sure I would pay full price for a nail polish.

I noticed too about the $8.95 per bottle which would make the current wonderful offer from Priceline of 2 for $20 look sick!!!! Definite mistake somewhere.

Sometimes Priceline has 50% off Sally Hansen products. That would be the best time to buy their nail polish :).