Hannah Tometzki

HJ Manicure ‘Blue Lagoon’ and ‘Sub Zero’


HJ Manicure ‘Sub Zero’ & ‘Blue Lagoon’

Cruelty free, vegan friendly and 5-free, HJ Manicure polishes are a generous 15ml of classic colours and are a new UK brand. There’s quite a nice array of colours to choose from considering the current line up consists of only 16 polishes, and I chose ‘Sub Zero’ and ‘Blue Lagoon’, two cremes.

I was really surprised by ‘Sub Zero’ as this is one coat with no top coat. It felt far glossier and looked far more opaque than I was expecting. The formula was superb and incredibly easy to apply, I absolutely loved it!

HJ Manicure ‘Sub Zero’

HJ Manicure ‘Sub Zero’

‘Blue Lagoon’ was a different kettle of fish though. It took two coats, and I did apply a top coat though it was probably almost as glossy as ‘Sub Zero’. The second coat of colour was essential though, and I didn’t feel like the formula was quite as easy to apply. All fairly easy to work around though, until it came to removal. ‘Blue Lagoon’ stained my nails, as well as my skin during removal, and I only wore it long enough to swatch. Thankfully I always wear a base coat so heavens knows how much staining my nails would have suffered if I’d have been lazy about swatching or if I had left it on for a normal amount of time. It looked OK whilst on, but there’s no way I would wear it again with the amount of staining I experienced.

HJ Manicure ‘Blue Lagoon’

HJ Manicure ‘Blue Lagoon’

Staining aside, these were alright polishes. They’re a little pricey (though not wallet bustingly so) but they are 15ml bottles so on balance they’re pretty well priced. I’m keen to see if there are any more adventurous colours coming from this brand though. The current lineup looks like a good base range, but it would be nice to see some complementary shimmers, glitters or flecks to make things a bit more exciting. One to watch perhaps.

Have you tried this brand, any thoughts?

Important Bits:


Cost £9.50
Volume 15ml
Availability hjmanicure.com

Product/s sent for review

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