I keep noticing that more and more brands of polish are going to wide brushes. This makes me so angry because I have small nail beds. Why does every company think that all women are built the same? It's way easier for a woman with large nail beds to paint their nails with a slim brush. Than a woman with small beds trying to paint their nails with a wide brush. Anymore. I just get polish all over myself when I try to paint my nails if I'm nervous. It just makes me so angry. Anyone else with short beds feel the same?
I wish someone would actually think of the idea (one of the companies) of including both a wide and thin brush with each polish.It would certainly solve the problem.
Good point! I personally don't experience this problem - I don't have a habit of pushing very hard with the brush, so it stays in its mostly cylindrical shape as I paint, and I end up doing either tip, middle, left, right or tip, side, middle, ... well you get the point. I don't know if it would be easier for me if I did a single stroke by pushing the brush a bit harder to widen it.
In any case, here's a suggestion: If you have a favourite brush in one of your top coats (or a polish) that is almost finished, don't toss it when it's done! Keep the cleaned bottle as a brush stand, and use the brush as your polish application brush. Then, when you have a bad brush, use this brush instead. To reduce polish waste, you don't have to dip the application brush all the way to the bottom of the bottle. Make sure to clean the brush thoroughly after application of a particular colour, so you can use it for any polish. Alternately, buy a slim brush that is to your liking for this purpose.
For nail art, I will often take a blob of a polish and dab it onto a 'palette' to use with a dotter or a different type of brush, but temporarily removing the brush from the polish (and keeping it in an enclosed, safe, place) to use the alternate brush is already 'saving' more polish as you will not have the blob that remains on the palette.
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