Comments on: Trying New Products: Citra by Nail Tek

By: Patricia

Patricia — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:08:58 +0000

I’ve been using and swear by Barielle’s Instant Liquid Nail Hardener (Toulene, Formaldehyde, Dibutyl Phthalate free). I always use it as my basecoat. I actually had a few bottles for YEARS and never used them… but as soon as I did my nails actually started growing instead of breaking! I LOVE this stuff!

When I ran out and couldn’t locate a store that still carried it I purchased Sally Hansen’s Complete Care 4-in-One Treatment and Triple Strong Advanced Gel Nail Fortifier. My nails IMMEDIATELY started peeling in layers from these treatments! They have NEVER done that before in my life! (needless to say I’ve boycotted ALL Sally Hansen products for the rest of my life!!)

A few months later I finally located my Barielle products and started using them and my nails once again long and strong! ;D

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:48:16 +0000

I have been using Nailtek Intensive Treatment 2, and it seems to be working ok. I am going to try the Citra version too. Just to see :)

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:31:43 +0000

Wondering what the results were?

By: tigra1411

tigra1411 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:53:38 +0000

U m using currently for 1 month Nail Tek Foundation II and Intensive Therapy II – they ve done a miracle to my soft nails! Even though they contain phormaldehyde. The only one problem: foundation drys endlessly, espetially if i use it as a basecoat.2 layers of OPI over it dry for 4 hours. And the treatment also changed a bit color of my tips. I would be curious to try new Nail Teck line for maintanance, but unfortunatly I already ordered OPI Nail Envy Maintanance. And by the way: I think not-dominant hand is not a good control. Very often nails on dominant hand are weeker. You better use as control several fingers on the same hand.

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:37:29 +0000

Court, my mom says she really likes it so far but she’s still getting breakges.

By: Court

Court — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:31:55 +0000

I’m a big Nail Tek fan and have been using the Citra Formula 2. Love it. :)

By: Steph

Steph — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:26:39 +0000

Reeeeeallly? I actually have a lot of breakage issues with my toes as weird as that is, maybe I need to use it for pedis.

By: steph

steph — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:04:22 +0000

I’ve been Citra II for about 6 months, and love it. I’m on my 2nd bottle. I only use this on my piggies, since it takes longer to dry, but last a good week or two.

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:31:26 +0000

Lady Slatternly – : P I didn’t think it was awful in comparison to some of these. (http://polishaddict.com/2008/05/29/strange-nail-polish-advertisements/)

Jargoc – I dunno if I believe that the trace amount of formaldehyde in polish causes any real harm to the human body.

By: jargoc

jargoc — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:09:30 +0000

formaldehyde causes throat cancer.

By: Lady Slatternly

Lady Slatternly — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:48:09 +0000

lol @ that lame ad. I seriously don’t understand what kind of collective brain damage all nail companies have such that they put out these consistently weird ads.

By: Steph

Steph — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:23:28 +0000

Mariann – LOL. I do know.

Lina-Elvira – What kind of file are you using?

Re – Might be worth it. : )

Steph – Oooh, I’m curious about those, keep me posted.

VV – It might be the acetone you’re using. Zoya Remove is necessary for bloggers.

Jennifer – Ah, well, as long as it doesn’t do damage that’s ok – I’ve used products before that have made thing way worse.

Diana – I don’t mind having formaldehyde in polish but I’m going to avoid using strengtheners that have it, just to be safe.

Alicia – I would use it as a base coat – but other girls use it below a base coat. A layer of strengthener, a layer of like a stickey base coat then the color.

Sanna – I’ll keep you posted.

Kris – Girls love Nail Tek II, I’ve only heard good things about it.

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:27:39 +0000

Never heard of it but I also like formaldehyde and have had good luck with Nailtek II foundation. Can’t wait to hear how it works for you.

By: Sanna

Sanna — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:09:51 +0000

I haven’t actually heard about it!
It might be something for me, I wanna know more about it:)

By: Alicia

Alicia — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:46:57 +0000

So, this may sound silly, but…if you were to do a strengthener, would you use it as a base coat, or would you put it over or under your base coat? I was using one as my base coat, but it doesn’t seem to do a good job as one.