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November 30, 2017

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This is my first time ever writing a review because I have to share with the world that this is quite possibly the WORST TOY IN THE WHOLE EXISTENCE OF OUR UNIVERSE. I purchased it as a Christmas present because my girls were begging for it, but they actually received it as a birthday present before Santa could deliver it. This morning we dove head first into the nom nom nail polish experience which left me wondering DID ANYONE ACTUALLY TEST THIS PRODUCT BEFORE MANUFACTURING, DISTRIBUTING, AND SELLING THIS PRODUCT FOR A SMALL FORTUNE?!? The directions lead you to believe that the polish will gleefully accept its new place of residence in the empty bottles, but it denies this new home with a fiery passion. It does not just drop in with ease, it explodes like it is Mount Vesuvius in it’s finest moments. It stains the fingers of all involved and sucks all the happiness from your soul. I don’t know Mr. Nom Nom personally, but i know for a fact he has not tried this contraption with his three eager to help children. He’s laughing at us from the safety of his billion dollar Nom Nom lair, because this is a “hot toy” for Christmas and we are all willingly dishing out 40 dollars for this!!! DO YOU KNOW WHAT I COULD DO WITH $40 INSTEAD OF SPENDING IT ON THIS PIECE OF CRAP?!? I could have soaked my cash in kerosene, lit it on fire, and roasted a single tiny marshmallow. I could have made 40 tiny origami birds and released them into the wild. I could have used it in the bathroom this morning when i ran out of toilet paper and watched it flush down the toilet with my feces.

In the end, please heed my warning and my rating of one star. In fact, I give it ZERO stars but amazon wouldn’t let me do that. This nail polish maker is nothing short of the devil reincarnated and will ruin your life. The end.

*I didn’t buy it from amazon, but will be spending my money returning the one I purchased to a store that rhymes with shmoys R shmus.

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Fun times with appropriate supervision

August 23, 2017

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The key to the Num Noms Nail Polish Maker is parental supervision. Conceptually, it’s a great toy and my six and seven year old girls had an absolute blast; however, there is a lot of room for things to go horribly awry quickly with small hands.

The toy is simple enough, mix the various colors and scents to make your own custom nail polish. In practice, there are a lot of elements that small hands with developing fine motor skills need assistance with. The nozzles and lids to the various bottles can be difficult for children to open and caused some frustration; I found it to be less of a design issue and more of a reality of the mechanics of what was involved.
I was a bit concerned about my living room looking like a long-lost Jackson Pollock painting, but in the end, all of the spills and mishaps were easy enough to clean and no harm was done.

Overall, the nail polish maker is an activity that can be a fun parent/child experience. It’s not a toy that will be a lot of fun for younger children to play with by themselves given that they will likely end up frustrated. As a family activity, we had a good time; it also created an opportunity to work with learning concepts regarding colors and some basic knowledge of chemistry.

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Michael Moreno

This is horribly messy. Even when you follow the instructions to ...

October 5, 2017

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This is horribly messy. Even when you follow the instructions to the letter you will abbsolutely spill and waste the nail polish provided. Make sure you have some wet wipes handy. A lot of wipes.

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Jason Lew

Garbage. Kids can't do this; it's not re-usable and its a mess

December 25, 2017

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This comes with 3 empty, hard plastic polish bottles to fill (not reusable), 1 bottle each of red, yellow and blue pigment, 1 bottle of glitter, and a bottle of the nailpolish base (which they label Milk). it also comes with the little salon-type setup, with a mixing station, some fake nails and adhesive and some plastic toy bits to create the appearance of value. in theory it's fine. you mix the colors you want with the glitter in a bottle, then you add the base and shake. there's a mixing mechanism is mostly ineffective.

The real problem is that you can't get the pigment or the base into the bottles. the instructions say to place the nozzle from the colors in the fillable bottle and squeeze, however, the hole are really small, and when you place the nozzle into the polish bottle it creates an airtight seal so you can't squeeze the pigment into the bottle; basic physics. since you only need a few drops of the pigments, you just manage to get a few drops in. but then you need to do the same thing with the 'Milk', and you need a lot more of that. so while you try to squeeze the Milk into the bottle which is effectively sealed, the milk oozes out of the screw on neck of the bottle and gets all over. it has the consistency of elmers white glue, although not quite as thick as glue, but viscous enough that it doesn't flow easy. there's no way a kid could do this; there's almost no way an adult could do this. so as not to ruin the excited kid's christmas gift. the adult has to fill the polish bottle 1 drop at a time so the air can come out of the bottle... go to fast and the hole gets clogged with the milk which runs over.
I tried everything i could think of to make a vent to let the air out while the bottle fills, but the hole is just too small. so drop by drop for about 20 minutes to fill one bottle.

If you're unfortunate enough to have this in your house, while it's out and you already have pigment all over you hands (which by the way, hasn't come off with neither alcohol nor 2 kinds of nail polish remover), just fill all three bottles and get it over with.

if you're looking for this, or if someone asked for it, stay away. please. there may be alternative, or just get them the num noms nail polish. you can probably get them 8 -10 num nom bottles for what you'll pay for this.
make it a day, take them to target and let them pick out which ones they want. but don't buy this.

UPDATE: to be fair, the polish did come off of my hands after a few normal washes; however, it also came off of my daughters nails with normal washing. not good.

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