There’s something about a gel manicure that just makes you feel like you’ve got it together. The shiny finish, the knowledge that they’re not going to immediately chip during basic everyday tasks (unless you’re really unlucky)... Your life might be falling apart. But your nails? Impeccable.
But the reality might not be quite as glossy. Over the past few years, a spate of headlines and studies have called out various gel nail ingredients as potential red flags for our health. Most recently, those headlines have centred around one specific ingredient, TPO, which is being phased out in the UK. So how worried do we need to be about our favourite beauty habit?
