Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

I purchased this Seche Vite top coat from amazon about two - three months ago. I wanted to use it for awhile to give the best review possible.For starters. I used to have such problems with nail polish. I could literally paint my nails and sit for 30+ minutes and then THREE-FOUR HOURS later go to bed and wake up with sheet marks/imprints all over the place. Being a recovering perfectionist, it drove me nuts to spend all that time painting my nails to have it destroyed by smudges and nicks and you name it, even hours later. Who has that many hours to be careful with your nails? I constantly was touching something that destroyed my nails.This product truly fixes that problem. Within 15 minutes (sometimes less!) of painting my nails, it's dry and I can touch it and not worry. I can even go digging around in my purse. It looks pretty flawless with this glassy top coat. I no longer get sheet marks. I've changed my nail polish about every week and I'm able to do that because I can get it done in 20-30 minutes total with base coat, color coat, and this top coat without taking such a huge chunk of time.Now you do have to be realistic with yourself. If you impale a nail on something hard and metallic after painting it or something it still can leave some imprint, and showering or having your nails in hot water soon after will soften the polish and leave you vulnerable to dents and nicks. But that aside, you really can do just about anything without worrying too much within 15 minutes and by 20-30 you should be pretty solid for typically manicure destroying tasks (even dishes). Again be realistic, thin coats will dry better. If you gob on a ton of nail polish and a ton of the top coat it will take longer to set and you might goof them up and be disappointed.It holds up pretty well for a good week possibly more. And let me tell you my nails go through hell. I work retail and I'm constantly taking security sensor tags with pointy pins off clothing and grabbing handfuls of plastic sensors at night to put them away into our backstock. We also have hangers with metal clips (like for pants, skirts, etc) and again I have to go digging around in bins of those and am constantly banging and scratching up my nails. The top coat may get a little scratched on the surface but I haven't had ANY major chips or nicks and it's held up really well. One day I even felt my nails were starting to look scratched up and a customer complimented how great and shiny my nails looked (go figure). I've also had people ask me if I got one of those gel manicures professionally done! Nope, all this great little product. When I have to change it at the end of the week it's because of growout or because it's pulled away a little from the tips of my nails.One odd thing is that I have noticed by then end of one week, the nailpolish looks a tiny bit darker than when I first painted them so there might be an issue with discoloration. I also recommend making sure you get the sides of your nails. This product is thick and you'll have a visible ridge if you didn't quite cover the whole nail. It does set pretty quickly too so there is a little bit of an art to putting on enough so that you can cover the nail before it sets without globbing on so much that it won't dry, but I got the hang of it pretty quickly. There is also a slight chemically smell to the product but I'm pretty sensitive to smell and it doesn't bother me because it fades quickly.I remember reading reviews about it getting overly thick, and I did purchase the restoring drops from seche vite but so far I haven't needed to use them. So it doesn't seem as big of an issue as some reviews would suggest.Overall the product is amazing and gives you flawless looking nails that and usable within such a short period of time. I have almost forgotten the days of sheet marks and horrible smudges and I get compliments all the time and I keep recommending it to all my friends. I can't believe people don't know about this top coat, I refuse to paint my nails without it now! It's really fantastic and makes at home manicures very accessible.

I have been reading about this brand of topcoat for so long now. I do not know why I never bought it until recently. I think maybe the price had something to do with it. After all I thought it was just clear nail polish and I can get that at the dollar store.Am I glad that I finally took the plunge and bought a bottle.I am not what they call someone who spends a lot of time on "cuticle care" (Pitch Perfect reference *high5*) I keep my nail shorts because they tend to chip & break easily if I do not. I love nail polish colors, God knows I have plenty of them.Just recently I got my first "gel mani", boy, was I ever impressed. It was awesome. The color I chose was a beautiful green color that resembled something you'd see on a tropical island, it was so shiny and strong. I went swimming, playing in the sand, playing in the ocean, doing all kinds of outdoorsy stuff on my vacation, and not one chip was to be seen.In fact it was not until the 12th or 13th day that I noticed the color was coming off from the bottom up, noticed the top down. Which is what I like.Back to SECHE VITE DRY FAST TOP COAT: when I am not doing a gel manicure (which is always) I like my normal polish manicure (with a little bit of nail art on ring fingers to make me feel pretty) to last as long as humanly possible.Not only does this topcoat make my polish last days longer, it also makes my nails incredibly shiny, and it is helping them to grow stronger and longer.I am using a vitamin filled base coat to help my nails grow strong (Orly), I use a coat of this on top of the base coat, then I put my color , then I use this as my topcoat/quick dry, and I let it dry for about 20 minutes before I do anything.I have found that quick dry topcoats, quick dry sprays and drops, etc. Are not really quick dry at all. In fact when you try to use your nails too quickly after applying the quick dry topcoat, you will find smudges/ridges, and your nails become messy. I believe it helps the polish to dry a couple of minutes faster, but not immediately. The quick dry labeling lulls you into a false sense of security. I am sure many of us out there have used a quick dry product only to end up having to redo our nails.To wrap it up I think that this product is outstanding. I can see what all of the hype is about, and I'm still not sure whether it is worth the price, but I believe it is money well spent, for me anyways.I found that this product has done what it says it will do. Except for the quick dry thing. I believe it dries nails quicker, but not the quickest. Or completely.I like using this polish on top of my base coat. There are times when I want to go polish free, but I like to use the vitamin enriched base coat to strengthen and lengthen my brittle nails. This topcoat not only enhances the vitamin base coat it also adds a beautiful shine.

Best top coat ever! Dries fast, goes on smooth. I’m buying another bottle and I’m not even finished with the first bottle. No smudging, protects the polish after painting. This stuff is awesome. I will paint my nails weekly because I’ve found what works and I don’t need to go to a nail salon. My nails look great!

I’ve been using this top coat for YEARS and nothing else quite compares. Every time I try another one, I somehow end up coming right back to this one because it just works. It dries fast, gives that super glossy salon-looking shine, and helps my polish last longer without instantly chipping. I also love that I’m not sitting around for three business days waiting for my nails to dry. One of my forever beauty staples at this point.

I finally caved and tried Seche Vite after hearing about it for years—and now I get the hype. This top coat dries fast. I’m talking “wait, is this dry already?” fast. It leaves a gorgeous glassy finish that makes my nails look professionally done, even when I know I was painting them while binge-watching TV in questionable lighting.I use gel polish for press-ons and regular polish for toes and this works like magic over both (just be careful with gel—it’s not a UV top coat, so it’s best for layering over regular polish or fully cured gel).Now, why 4 stars? Two reasons:Shrinkage – If your base color isn’t fully dry, this can sometimes pull it back from the edges. I learned the hard way—so now I wait a little longer before applying it, and that helps.Smell – Oof. It is potent. Definitely open a window or turn on a fan unless you like feeling like you're back in a 2003 nail salon.That said, I still plan to keep this in my nail kit. It’s perfect for those last-minute polish jobs when I need to get out the door and don’t want to smudge a single thing. Just handle it with care, give your base coat time, and ventilate your space—you’ll love the results!

This top coat dries super quick and has that deep gloss look to it. My nails look professionallydone and has lasted with no chipping. I have a small crack in one of my fingernails and it coatedit so thickly and I am not having any problems with it snagging. So glad I finally bought this andwill keep repurchasing it and recommending it!

Lives up to the hype and then some! I used as directed: applying a generous amount to each not quite dry nail. Dried super quickly and nice and hard. Unlike other “hardeners” it lasts days and did not peel when showering or washing my hair. Picture shows 10 days old. Be aware that it does smell like airplane glue when applying. No scent when dry. I have had trouble with nails breaking, but not lately! Excellent product! A+

Before I bought this product, I looked for reviews of fast dry clear coats. Previously I had used Sally Hansen's hard as nails line, which when dry, is very nice and helps with growing longer nails, but takes longer to dry than I am patient. Invariably I'd do something once I thought the polish was dry, and end up smudging it. So frustrating! I was tired of smudges with every single color change or touch up, but then I read good stuff about this product. Boy oh boy, it was all true, and then some! It comes off the brush looking thick, but it glides onto the nail perfectly. It DOES dry fast; very quickly your nails are dry to the touch. I only had a tiny bit of trouble when I tried to put this product over really wet nail polish (don't do that.) Since it's thick, it tends to drag on very wet polish. If your polish has dried even a little, then it works fine. Once in place, it does. not. smudge. I love it!I wasn't prepared for what a gorgeous finish it puts on your nails: high gloss, a thick but not too thick clear layer, smooth smooth smooth, and it even evened out some knubbly areas where my polish had clumped as it dried. I think some people call those bubbles. The Seche Vite top coat had the effect of softening any mistakes in the polish and letting the colored polish underneath flow into a more perfectly smooth layer. A couple chips I had touched up with a complementary color, creating an ombre effect, and adding this top coat let the color edges soften into each other even better. It looks fantastic -- like a salon effect. I had one smudge that I pushed back into place, but without the topcoat it was blatently obvious I'd had an accident with half-wet half-dry polish. Later in the day after putting this topcoat over it, you'd only know there had been a smudge if I pointed it out to you. I love that. Wow, who invented this stuff? Give them an award!I wasn't sure I'd want to use a topcoat all the time, but when something makes your manicure look amazing, and makes doing it easier, I'm sold. Sold, sold, sold! I'll be a Seche Vite Dry Fast top coat user forever.Absolutely worth the five bucks I spent. Maybe worth more. I am so glad I tried it. Highly recommended.

The best i’ve ever tried

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Very quick drying for use as a top coat !

This is very good, however when the bottle gets about half way - it becomes very thick and difficult to apply and can damage the polish under. So it’s good, but only till around half way - Unable to finish the product

Sono molto molto soddisfatta! Si asciuga immediatamente, rende le unghie lucide e indurite quasi come con la semi permanente. È molto durevole.