The Man Manicure | Barry M

Manicures, cuticle care, nail vitamins are all things you wouldn’t associate with male grooming. Barry M however have created a unisex nail care and varnish range, designed to get men and women into looking after their nails.

If you are a serial nail biter and want to transform your hands, these products could be the answer. The range includes four products designed to condition and strengthen nails whilst also improving their appearance.

The two nail care products are The SuperMani * and Iron Man *, which can be used as a base coat or on their own. Having tried them both I would say they work best as a base coat as they do add a shine to the nail, which does give the game away of wearing nail varnish.

The coloured Mani Masks *, are designed to enhance your natural nail colour, whilst also strengthening your nails. My personal preference out of the two was 'Birthday Suit', a nude shade more accurate to my natural nail colour. The varnish itself is easy to apply and dries very quickly and most importantly matte.

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Birthday Suit

The real test for me was to see if anyone noticed my somewhat dodgy manicure, practice does make perfect, and out of all the people in my office only one eagle eyed person commented. This I think is a result as I was quite apprehensive to wear varnish out of the house, this being said I’m not sure I would go through the effort of painting my nails again.

Overall this product certainly does have potential to encourage more men to look after their nails and for £3.99 if you fancy trying them out I feel you won’t be disappointed. The packaging may be a little girly but don't let this put you off as the product certainly makes up for it. 

The range is available in Boots and Superdrug and also in Marks and Spencer’s.

Have you tried the range? What are your thoughts?

G K