Cutex Twister Fingernail Polish Remover - a Product Review

Traveling a lot as we do, I am always on the lookout for small, easy to carry beauty items for my bag. The less space things take up, the more room I have to shove in stupid tourist crap to bring home. So, when I spied this here little Cutex Twister, I thought I had hit the jackpot in fingernail polish removers. Boy was I wrong.

Cutex makes a pretty good fingernail polish remover in general, and it is very inexpensive, so that is the brand I generally stick with. The removing solution in this cute little twister cylinder is not the problem. The Cutex fingernail polish remover alone works just fine.

The problem is the inside of this cylinder. You see, you screw that blue cap off of the white body and are suppose to stick your finger into this tube and twist to remove the polish. If they had stuck with just having a solution-soaked sponge in there, this Twister thing might be tolerable. Hell, it might even work! But no. What the engineers did here (and they're probably men...) is to insert this plastic kinda finger guide thingy. Remember those little cheapo pencil and crayon sharpeners we all had as a kid? This plastic insert looks like that, with one side of its tapered wall being open to let the sponge poke through.

In theory, as you twist your finger, the plastic thingy revolves to grab new parts of the sponge and attempt to remove your fingernail polish. In reality, it does no such thing. The sponge has a mind of its own and tends to move with the plastic twister dealy as it spins. It takes a bit of finger contorting to get to any new area of the sponge.