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4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Good basecoat, horrible topcoat Mar 31, 2010
By Noelle
As a top coat, it is absolutely useless. If i could give it no stars i would. But since it is a pretty decent base coat, a fair rating will be 1 star. Here are my tests.
Week A: DD basecoat, OPI nailpolish (2 layers, with a day drying time between layers). Nails lasted 3 full days after 2nd layer before chipping.
Week B: No basecoat, OPI nailpolish (same drying time). And nails lasted 2 days before chipping.
Week C: DD basecoat, OPI nailpolish (same drying time), and DD topcoat after giving the second layer of polish 4 hours to dry. 4 hours later i went for yoga class, and all my nails have imprints of the yoga mat.
Week C: I refuse to believe the evidence of Week C, so tried again. On Week D, i applied the topcoat on the morning after the day i applied the second layer of polish. That night, probably a full 12 hours later, i went to bed and woke up the next morning with a smudge on a nail, probably from clenching too hard. But still, seriously? This is worse than having no topcoat!
I've never written a review before but i really feel compelled to write this because we invest so much time on our nails. I'd like to encourage better products that help us save time, effort and irritation to be developed, and ones like these to just be taken off the shelf.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Not something I would normally review, but... Mar 12, 2010
By Hannah Quintanilla
"Your Uncle Hannah"
I've tried several top coats, including 'quick dry' ones, and this top coat dries faster and lasts longer than the others I've tried. That being said, I always allow for extra time drying, just because with almost any nail polish, it takes several hours to truly cure a nail polish. As a painter, I paint small-scale, hand-painted pieces all the time, that I have to spray with a clear coat, and really, this process takes 24 hours and even though the same can't exactly be said for nail polish, there are some similarities.
I'm never used this as a base coat, but I'm tempted to try it. I've done all kinds of wild, crazy designs on my nails (rather thickly, I might add) and they were able to dry, and once I coated them with this clear coat, they often lasted an unprecedented amount of time, sometimes weeks. Usually, my nail polish chips literally within hours of applying it, since I am a stay-at-home mom with no dishwasher and I wash everything by hand and I also use my hands quite a bit because I am a painter and I also paint (which is very bad for nail polish).
XOXO
Sally Hansen Double Duty Base & Top Coat Sep 03, 2011
By Sharon Holloway
Good product that helps nails grow really fast. I am very satisfied with purchase and would recommend to anyone as both a base and top coat as well as a nail growth promoter.
Staining my Nails Jul 19, 2011
By Just Right
As this is the only product I've been using for months now, I can only assign the orange stain on my nails to this item, especially since the nail polish never actually has direct contact with my nails. I'm going to be looking for something else...
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 I like it as a base coat, but not as a top coat Oct 29, 2008
By Mrs. Kilo Delta
Well, I think my title sums it up, pretty much. As a base coat, my OPI color polish adheres very well to it after I've let it dry a few minutes. I can't use the Double Duty as a top coat though.... I wait until my thin layer of OPI color is solidly dry, then apply the Double Duty as a top coat, as thin as I can. I gave it ample time to dry afterwards, even sticking my hands in front of a fan in the hopes they'd dry faster when I realized that this, as a top coat, is quite gummy. Nearly an hour later, I had to dress and dash out the door to class. When I got to class, I saw a "gummy" gouge in my polish, along with a good-sized chip on the tips on two nails.
I don't have this problem when I don't use Double Duty as a top coat. So, as a base, it's great. Double duty, though? Not so much.
I purchased this item locally.
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