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How Many Coats Are In a Bottle of Nail Polish?

Written By unapologetically MJ on Sunday, Sep 24, 2017 | 12:00 PM

 
If you enjoyed this video you might also like: How Many Coats Are in a Lipstick https://bit.ly/33Eak8c Have you ever wondered how many coats are in one nail polish bottle? As a project pan participant and an avid nail polish collector and user, I have been wondering how long would it take to finish a whole nail polish. And so in search for the answer I have performed a little experiment - I actually counted how many coats of nail polish I can apply to my nails before the bottle is empty. This is now another nail polish mountain video and so I do apply 10 coats on each hand and then remove it completely and start allover. I have literally scraped the bottom of the bottle in the end and so I ended the experiment when I realised that I couldn't apply another coat on all 10 nails. The results mean that you can apply the nail polish to all of your nails this many time, although most of the time you would need at least 2 coats for the color to become fully opaque. Now, the nail polish used in this video is on the smaller side. It is a Rimmel 8ml/0.28 fl oz nail polish and so the number of coats in other nail polishes would vary. For comparison here are some common nail polishes by size (approximate): 1ml = 6.25 single coats on 10 fingernails Essie 13.5ml/0.48 fl oz = 84 single coats on 10 fingernails OPI 15ml/0.53 fl oz = 94 single coats on 10 fingernails Sally Hansen 14.7ml/0.52 fl oz = 92 single coats on 10 fingernails China Glaze 14ml/0.5 fl oz = 87 single coats on 10 fingernails Maybelline Super Stay 10ml/0.35 fl oz = 62 single coats on 10 fingernails If you would like to check how many coats you might have in your nail polish just calculate how many coats are in 1ml/1 fl oz and multiply it by the size of your nail polish. The results might vary depending on how thick the nail polish is and how wide and long your nails are, so this video is just to give you a rough idea. Thanks so much for watching I do hope that you found this video useful. Please find me here: