When the latest beauty fad falls through my letterbox, one of either two outcomes occur. I lurve it, need to shout it from the rooftops immediately and rush to pop up a post; my fingertips creating a mild steam as they smash down onto my keyboard. Or there’s a more controlled reaction, a subtle nod of enthusiasm and it gets filed into my new Muji storage system (I’m naming it the beauty cupboard, however it’s just a stack of drawers in my wardrobe – I wouldn’t get too excited!). The Leighton Denny ‘As Good As New’* fell into the latter category. I’ve had it gathering dust for months after I initially dismissed it as a bit of a fad. It’s a solution then when dropped in to old gloopy polishes, returns them back to their originally fluid flowing state, so when I discovered a crusty, viscuous bottle of one of my old favourite Nails Inc’s expectancy waiting to be applied I thought I’d test it out…
You can probably guess where this post is going, but it seriously is rather fabulous stuff. I popped around 10 drops into the polish in question, gave it a roll (Leighton suggests rolling polishes between your hands instead of shaking to avoid getting bubbles of air into the product) and tested it out, and you know what it was restored back to it’s old liquid lacquer self. No gloops to be seen. By this time I was getting a little giddy and carried away so I thought I’d give it a real test on the thickest polish of them all – Seche Vite Top Coat – my bottle is well past it and has seen much better days. This time it was more like 15 drops till it had thinned out (my only niggle with this product – you do need to use quite a lot), but hey – it’s back in a useable condition and I’m one happy bunny. I’ve heard of standard nail polish removers being added to thick polishes doing the same thing, but I’ve attempted this a few times and not only been left with a major spillage on the floor but some seriously slooshy polishes and after a quick comparison of ingredients, the Leighton Denny seems to have a different formula, which really does get down to it’s job.
Leighton Denny ‘As Good As New’ comes in a 12ml pipette-able solution which I would estimate to un-glooop about 20 polishes. You can get it from BeautyBay, and at £11 I’ll be keeping it on hand to inject some life back into my old favourites. Now just how many times did I say gloop in this post…
*PR Sample
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