The claim: The tedious task of painting your own nails can be a time consuming chore. Spray Perfect is an easy-to-use, spray-on nail polish that leaves user’s nails with a salon-quality polished look in a matter of minutes. Spray Perfect features new technology that lets color adhere to nails but easily washes off skin with soapy water. Unlike similar products on the market, Spray Perfect is available in a wide variety of colors, including Racy Red, Passion Purple, Party Pink, Naked Nude, Sexy Silver, Whimsical White and Black Beauty.

Cost: $19.99, includes two bottles of Spray Perfect colors, plus the Spray Perfect Base and Top Coat

Where: BuySprayPerfect.com

I’ve seen the commercial several times. Just spray on your nail polish. Really? Sounds weird. Could it really work? I had to try it for myself.

Spray Perfect does, indeed, work. In three easy steps:

1. Base coat

2. Spray polish

3. Top coat

While Spray Perfect claims it’s the world’s fastest manicure because it dries in under a minute, the directions do say that each coat should be allowed to air dry for two to three minutes. Still pretty quick in under 10 minutes, but not necessarily the world’s fastest.

Spray Perfect was just like using the spray paint I have in my garage for DIY projects. The smell was the same … the technique was the same. I used spacers when I did my pedicure, but still found it difficult to evenly coat my entire nail. Just like with regular spray paint, if you stay in one place too long, it puddles. Other spots on my nails weren’t as thick. This is a technique that definitely takes some practice.

After applying a second color coat, I put on the top coat, let it dry and proceeded to wash my hands and feet to remove the “extra” color. I was not careful enough when applying the base coat because some of the color around my nails had to be peeled off my skin.

The color was pretty but something about it just didn’t seem like a real manicure/pedicure to me. I think it was the thin coat of color that I was seeing. Regular nail polish seems to have a thicker look. After a couple of days, the color started to chip and I wondered how this polish could be touched up because it would be difficult to concentrate the spray to a tiny spot.

One thing Spray Perfect does well is come off with regular polish remover.

While I’m not a huge fan of Spray Perfect for myself, I did use it on my daughter and found it helpful in getting color on her tiny nails, where a typical brush is so big I end up painting her skin, too.

— Melanie Wass

This, by far, was the most bizarre manicure I’ve ever had — and I once got my nails done at a little shop on the side of the highway that I’m fairly certain was named “Cheap Nails.”

In the past few months, I’ve shied away from manicures. The gel polish ones at the local salon became too expensive and time-consuming. And when I do my nails at home, they often look like a kindergarten art project. (I’m no nail artist!) Spray Perfect sounded like a great solution. Unfortunately, I didn’t end up with the “salon-quality polished look” that was promised. And while the polish might dry in a minute, the entire process requires at least 12 minutes followed by lots of scrubbing.

The directions instructed to apply the base and top coats only on the nails. That’s where my problems began. If I were able to keep polish from getting on my cuticles and around the sides of my nails, most of my manicures wouldn’t look half bad.

The spray was cold, and I looked like the Tin Man after spraying on the Sexy Silver polish. I couldn’t wait to wash my hands. When I was finished applying the base, spray and two top coats, I had to scrub for another five to 10 minutes and still didn’t get all of the polish off my skin and cuticles.

I’m pretty hard on my nails, and this polish was no match for my constant typing and hand-washing. It started chipping by the next morning.

— Stephanie Hacke

Oh, the joys being very pregnant in the middle of summer. Swelling, sweating … not being able to see your toes at the height of sandals season. Fortunately, my husband offered to give me a pedicure, and Spray Perfect nail polish made his job pretty easy.

After putting on a base coat, he applied the Party Pink polish like a spray paint. Seeing the overspray cover my toes was troubling, and the polish seemed oddly powdery, but I insisted we press ahead. He applied a top coat, waited about five minutes for it to dry, then used a warm, soapy towel to wipe off the excess polish.

Surprisingly, it worked! The polish stuck to my nails but not my skin, and it looked pretty good. Not a salon-quality, smooth finish, but that could be a result of the application and not the product.

Will I use Spray Perfect polish again? Probably. But I think I’ll wait until I can see my toes again and do it myself.

— Crystal Turner

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