Wrap it up

Nail Rock's nail wraps are a fabulous idea.  Slightly more tricky in reality, but fabulous theoretically.   Produced in startling patterns and colours, you peel them off the backing paper, stick them on your nails, blow a hairdryer on them to heat them and make them pliable and then tuck them over your nails.

The ones I was sent were rather English Defence League Bling - gold union jacks.  They looked horrendous on the backing, but rather jolly once they were on and trimmed.  I was having my hair cut at Eleven at the time and bought the wraps with me.  The stylists had all been snooty about the wraps but once they were on they agreed they had a certain charm, and they certainly give the sort of flawless finish you wouldn't get by flapping about yourself kack-handedly.  I got admiring glances from da yoot on the tube on the way home, and screams of incredulous delight from all the year three girls at school.

They are certainly not the easiest things in the world to apply, and two of you definitely make a better job than one, particularly when one of the two of you is a manicurist. But before you all get carried away and spend your pocket money on them, I have to say that they were applied at 11am and fell off at 4pm. So they'd last a party.