If your imaginative child loves painting her nails, she'll enjoy creating her own nail polish colors as well. The unique Jakks Custom Nail Studio lets would-be stylists, age eight and older, create custom nail polish colors, and then give manicures and pedicures to themselves and their friends. Kids can add sparkles and decals to their manicures to show their individual style. The color-creation process is elaborate and requires concentration, but the excellent instructions make it easy for motivated kids to accomplish it.
Spa Factory Custom Nail Studio
Ages: 8+ Requires:
4 "AA" batteries (not included)
What We Think
Fun factor: Durability: Ease of assembly: Educational factor: Novelty factor: The Good: Excellent instructions; color wheel teaches kids about color combinations and encourages creativity. The Challenging: Lots of small parts to keep track of; dyes can stain and cause messes. In a Nutshell: A unique, challenging toy that will entertain motivated kids for hours.
Pour different colored dyes into the bottles, and then mix them using the color wheel. View larger.
The dryer station helps the polish dry fast and gives your nails a nice, shiny finish. View larger.
Clever Design Encourages Organization and Creativity Though the Nail Studio is a sophisticated toy with lots of little parts, its organized design makes everything easy to use and close at hand. Numerous little bottles store securely within the toy to prevent them getting lost if carefully used. The instructions provide step-by-step information about how to set up the studio, create and mix the nail polish, and dry newly polished fingernails and toenails. Parents should assist in batter installation with the help of a screwdriver.
An Irresistible Mix of Science and Style The unique design of the Nail Studio enables young manicurists to easily create their own nail polish colors with the help of a color wheel. After pouring red, white, and yellow dye into small bottles and placing them in the "Color Dye station," kids then use the color wheel to help them produce the color they want. Next come the sparkles, which they add at the "Sparkle Station." Finally, they mix the colors at the battery-operated mixing station after adding nail polish base.
Using their created colors, kids can give manicures and pedicures, using the dryer station and toe separator to dry nails -- just like in a real salon. Your child will need patience to get the process right -- parents may need to supervise at first -- but they will appreciate the colorful results of their own creative efforts.
What's in the Box Nail studio with color dye station, sparkle station, mixing station, dryer station, and mixer/dryer control; 3 color dye packets, 2 sparkle packets, and 3 nail polish base packets; nail file; 1 color chart card; 2 nail care cards; color wheel; 3 nail decals; 1 sheet of nail polish bottle labels; toe separator; small funnel; 4 nail polish bottles, 3 dye bottles; 2 sparkle bottles; large funnel; and instructions.
This cosmetic studio allows your aspiring stylist to paint her own nails.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
It is a toy! (a fun one if you know how to improvise):
Ok maybe there a quite a few flaws in this toy! But I for one didn't like that stop me! I loved when I first got this toy in my mail box I was soooooooo exicted to get it out and play...to my dissapointment after putting on five coats of my newly made nail polish it flaked off :(. My mom knew how much I was looking forward to this so she took a look at the toy, we concluded that the stuff you mix in to make the polish doesn't work.
Heres what to do if your not having any fun: (this makes nail polish... more info
Waste of money!:
This toy was the biggest waste of money ever. My 9 year old daughter was so excited to receive this toy, and had fun for an hour mixing various nail polishes according to the directions. The polish looked bright and pretty in the bottles. But then she became extremely disappointed because when she painted her nails the polish went on clear and didn't show up. The sparkly glitter mixed into the polish would not show up on her nails either. Even after adding triple and quadruple more drops than the... more info
better for 8 yrs and under:
we bought this for our 13 yr. old daughter since she loves painting her nails - but were disappointed in that is really is more like a "toy" than for "real" use. the nail polish is more like a glaze color, not very dark and it peels/washes off fairly easy. i figured when she was done making polishes it would still work set up on her table to dry her nails with but the fan is quite loud and not very powerful - i would have done better just buying her polishes and a real nail dryer. this would be a great TOY,... more info
no good:
This item is no good. Waste of your money. The colors did not come out the way they say it would. The nail polish doesn't really show the color, it is watered down.
