As you well know if you’re a long-term reader of A Model Recommends, I am strictly low-maintenance when it comes to my nails. I mostly wear nude shades, with the occasional red and a very occasional “off-piste” crazy shade, but my focus is usually on keeping my hands and nails looking neat and polished rather than swapping my shade every other day.
I have long been an admirer of gel nails – that beautiful bouncy sort of look that they have, with that hi-shine and smooth-as-glass finish – but I’m afraid my patience levels don’t stretch to the sort of dedication you need for gel manicures. I find the idea of having to sit for long periods of time getting faffed with really off-putting (must be the years and years I sat having hair and makeup done for shoots) and I can only just about bear getting my roots done because I know I can’t do it myself!
So when Sally Hansen invited me to give their Miracle Gel products a whirl I was all enthusiasm – the next best thing to a salon gel manicure, with the same glossy, long-lasting finish but none of the faff. Just two coats of Miracle Gel colour, applied as you would a normal polish, one Miracle Gel topcoat applied as you would a normal topcoat, and no sitting about with my hands under special lamps. (No sitting about for ages trying to remove them, either – just normal nail polish remover will do.) Most importantly, no leaving the house!

I put two of my favourite ...