I really want to love this nail polish, the colors look so beautiful in the bottle!! However most of them require 3-4 layers to become opaque/not streaky, and when you do that many layers it takes a decade to dry (if it every does). Once dry it chips soooo easily, even with two coats of the plumping gel top coat. The color tamale is beautiful both in and out of the bottle but I’m on the second day of wear right now (I truly did nothing strenuous with my hands and there’s already micro chips on all of the tips - it’s very unusable for me to do so little with my hands as I have during the 1.5 days that I’ve had this nail color on, so its not possible for me to use this nail polish and also work. Essie’s gel topcoat lasts most of a week flawlessly (for context, I’m a carpenter, so that’s pretty impressive). I’m going to keep trying to make the 6 colors I got work because I love them but if it continues to go as it has been I’m afraid I’ll have to go back to essie. I can’t emphasize enough how beautiful the colors are in the bottle tho…well done, wish I could get that on my hands! The color in the photos is Tamale and I have no complaints about how that turned out, my issue is with how quickly it chips, I really can’t stand chipped nails and even though I’ve had this on for less the 2 days I already want to take it off. Such a waste of time.