True Blue Spa's Spa Mania: Wonderful Hand Care Set

True Blue Spa's Spa Mania collection from Bath & Body Works is a set of hand care products in a really nifty silver case. Traveling as much as we do, I am always on the look-out for easily packed cases. This one happens to rawk hard. I'll tell ya all about everything that comes inside this case, but the truth is that these items are not what I now use the case for at all. I've found that this case is perfect for bath and shower items.

See, the case is waterproof and inside it has three smaller enclosures which are also waterproof. Absolutely marvelous for damp net/ball/sponge thingies, small tubes and bottles of shower gels, and other implements such as the toenail/fingernail brush that did come with this set. I love this case! that alone was worth the $17 purchase price of this set.

Now on to the contents....

Toenail/fingernail brush ~ This is your everyday, ordinary, and quite average small brush to keep on the shower ledge for giving your nails a good scrubbing to get rid of any embedded grime under them. It works. Hell, there's hardly any way for an item like this to not work, short of the bristles falling out. I assure you, the bristles are quite firmly implanted in the cute blue acrylic handle. I do still use this item. It's OK.

1-2-3 Nail Buffer ~ OK, what a 3-in-1 buffer is, is a rectangled thingy with buffers on three sides, each of varying coarseness. Side one roughs up your nails and gets rid of any ridges and what have you. Side two is a little finer to even out those ridges a bit more, and side 3 then tops it all off with a nice shine to your natural nails for those days you just don't feel like breaking out the nail polish.

In theory, this sounds marvelous. In reality, it just doesn't live up to its claims at all. The thing is, it seems to work on some of my nails, but not all of them. I end up with a few nails which do look great, and a few which look just plain dull. So, this thing is inconsistent.