Nontoxic, no-UV-lamp polish lasts as long as a gel manicure

• We tested the Dazzle Dry System, a nail-polish system that promises wear comparable to gel polish.
• The system comes with nail prep, base coat, lacquer, topcoat, and revive drops.
• The system held up, staying virtually chip-free for two weeks, and it also removed easily.

Following is a transcript of the video.

Nico Reyes: It lasted on me the entire two weeks looking like this. How?

I love a good long-lasting manicure as much as the next person, but usually long-lasting equals hard to remove. But then I heard about this four-step Dazzle Dry manicure system, and it promises a five-minute drying time, two weeks of chip-free wear, and it removes as easily as normal nail polish. Sign me up.

The system also claims to be nontoxic. The Dazzle Dry system comes with nail prep, base coat, lacquer in the color of your choice, and revive drops for when your products get thick over time.

So, let's start applying. The first step is the nail prep. This is supposed to clean the nail and provide moisture. Next is the base coat, which is meant to make the manicure last longer. You're supposed to put it in a bowl of hot water and wait until it goes from cloudy to clear before using. I'm not sure what kind of witchcraft this is or why you have to do it, but it's just what the instructions say. I have to apply two coats of this and wait until it dries fully matte.

Now I'm applying my lacquer. They have, like, over 100 different colors, but I went with this seafoamy green shade called Casablanca. Once again, I'm doing two coats and letting it dry matte. I should mention that the system isn't meant for use with any nail polish; it's only meant for use with their own lacquers. The last step is the topcoat, and this is what's going to give it that shiny finish and hopefully prevent any wear and tear in these next two weeks. So, I'm applying one coat of this, and then I'm going to set a timer for five minutes.

Oh! It's time! OK. So, that was the five-minute timer. Alexa, stop! I don't mean to be mean to her. She just needs a little tough love sometimes. So, let's do a little fingerprint test to see if it actually is. So, I'm just gonna, like, touch it. Oh, my God, it is! It doesn't feel like -- you know when you touch too-wet nail polish before it's dried and it feels, like, smushy and mushy and you see your actual fingerprint on the nail? This isn't doing anything. It feels fully hardened.

So far I'm loving my Dazzle Dry mani. I feel like this color is super cute. So now we just wait and see if it actually does start to chip. I feel like the main claim of this system is that it's going to give you that wear of a gel or a dip kind of manicure without that super-grueling removal process, so fingers crossed that they stay looking this good.

It's been a week since I first applied the Dazzle Dry system, and I've been cooking, washing my hair, and walking my dog, all things that normally chip my nail polish like crazy, and I haven't noticed a single chip yet. Normally, when I paint my nails with regular polish, I notice chipping about three days in. I'm not the most gentle with my hands, but this is holding up really, really well.

I've been inspecting the nail polish really, really closely, and the only places that I see any sort of chipping happening are my pointer finger and my thumb. The one on my thumb is a bit more noticeable, but I'm telling you, if I didn't have to closely look at my nail polish for the sake of this video, I don't think that I would have noticed. I don't think that I would have noticed! The chips are that small.

So, now it's time to remove my nail polish. I'm just going to use the acetone I already have. The Dazzle Dry polish took me little to no time to remove. That was super easy, and it definitely removes exactly the same as a normal nail polish would.

I'm honestly very happy and excited about this Dazzle Dry system. I can see myself ordering more colors, probably as soon as I'm done filming this, but you really do get the best of both worlds. You get that long-lasting manicure that's going to look great even after two weeks, and you get that removal process that's really simple and easy and won't damage your nails.