There are plenty of qualifiers that go into finding a great nail polish: how streaky it is, how fast it dries, how long it lasts, and that's just the formula. Add in trying to narrow down a color, and the decision-making level of difficulty goes from "what should I eat for dinner?" (hard) to "Gossip Girl or Gilmore Girls?" (impossible). Will you have the chance to change the shade in a few days? Doesn't matter! The struggle is always so very real.
Here's when leaving the choice to the people makes it easy: best-sellers. If thousands of folks swear by it, you know you're in good hands. And Sally Hansen's Miracle Gel Nail Polish in Terra Coppa, the most Instagram-worthy rose gold, checks all the boxes. It's long-lasting, universally flattering, and did we mention rose gold? In fact, it's so popular our friends at Sally Hansen tell us one bottle of this drugstore beauty is sold every two minutes. To put that in perspective: If you laid out all the Terra Coppa bottles sold in a year, it would cover 183 football fields. That's...not a little.
But seeing is believing, so armed with this knowledge, we recruited three Glamour staffers—all with different skin tones—to put the $8 color to the test, along with the brand's famed gel-like topcoat. Read on for their honest opinions, and don't blame us if you just so happen to make an extra trip to the drugstore this weekend. We feel pretty certain in saying you won't be mad at it.