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Hello!!
A while back I told you that Incoco had come out with a cool new concept--their
Top It Off collection, nail wraps that have a pattern on them but are clear, so you can put them over whatever color you want. I think this gives an added element of flexibility and fun to anyone's polish and nail art wardrobe.
The collection currently has five looks, and they sent me two to review:
Incoco Fifth Ave has geometric slashes of a floral-ish pattern that also looks to me like seashells or the tops of parasols:
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| Incoco Fifth Ave |
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| Incoco Fifth Ave |
And Incoco Street Smart is a geometric delight filled with chevrons and angles--I sooo adore this one:
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| Incoco Street Smart |
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| Incoco Street Smart |
I love the versatility of both of these sets--they go with any color and any style you want.
So let's check out how they look! One of the first ideas that occurred to me when I first saw this collection was that I can put it over awesome polishes like duochromes...so here is Fifth Ave over DazzleGlaze Sunsets of Tahiti, a beautiful pink-coral duochrome:
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| Incoco Fifth Ave over DazzleGlaze Sunsets of Tahiti |
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| Incoco Fifth Ave over DazzleGlaze Sunsets of Tahiti |
And I wanted to see how a matte polish would look under these, so I put Incoco Street Smart over Zoya Harlow:
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| Incoco Street Smart over Zoya Harlow |
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| Incoco Street Smart over Zoya Harlow |
So how did they work out? I found these just as easy as any other Incoco appliques to work; they stretched just like the other appliques and also removed easily for replacement within a few seconds if you make a mistake. One difference here is that you need to line these up with the base polish or applique that you've put under them; I didn't clean up my edges so you could see how I did. You can see that I didn't have much problem at all getting these to line up; I could go in and remove the teeny bit over overlap with some acetone if I wanted to, but IRL, you honestly can't even tell and I see no reason to bother.
Can you tell that something has been put over your first layer of manicure? This was something I wondered about, because some nail stickers and decals are pretty obvious, and I thought these might end up looking like those plastic covers that people put on their couches. No worries whatsoever--once they're in place, you can't tell they're there. I do have a small wrinkle in one that you can't see in the picture, and even then, it's not obvious or annoying.
I was also concerned that these might pick up fingerprints when I touched the sticky side, and I'd end up with janky old fingerprints showing through my mani. But I touched these full-on with my fingers, and it left no visible fingerprints whatsoever. Clean as a whistle.
These do function as a shiny topcoat. This is why I tested out a matte polish, and yes, the wraps turned the matte into a shiny polish just as if I'd added topcoat, and even brought out the sparkly-shines the way a topcoat would.
So what do I think overall? I think these are really innovative and I really like them. They're fast, they're easy, and they work over any polish you want to combine them with, so you aren't restricted to one color for a particular design. I hope they'll continue to expand on this line with patterns in other colors (White! Silver! Gold!) and other designs.
You can find these and the three other designs on
Incoco's website; while you're there, check out the Fashion Forward fall 2015 collection, which I'll be reviewing for you shortly.
Happy wrapping!
