Sally Hansen’s New Virtual Try-On Technology Means Always Picking the Perfect Nail Polish Color

Anyone who’s ever stood before that magical yet overwhelming wall o’ bottles at a nail salon knows how weirdly difficult it can be to choose a nail polish color to wear for the next week or two. And picking a color at the store? Bringing an entire bottle home for the purpose of using it more than once? Even when it’s affordable, it feels like a major commitment — and a potentially regrettable one if the color under the glass doesn’t end up looking the same on your fingertips. (And no, unless there’s a designated tester, it’s not OK to just open up a bottle and try it on.)

So, what’s an extremely indecisive perfectionist (henceforth to be referred to as “you”) to do when it’s time to buy what you’re hoping is not only the perfect color for a certain occasion but a color from which your nail-polish wardrobe could truly benefit for months to come? Easy: Use Sally Hansen‘s amazing new virtual try-on technology.

Starting today, you can use your phone to try on hundreds of Sally Hansen shades from across the brand’s collections — Insta-Dri, Color Therapy, Miracle Gel, and more — without opening a single bottle. No mess, no mistakes, and no chance of wasting your money on a color that isn’t what you were expecting. And no app, either! You can do it all right on sallyhansen.com.

This new feature marks the first-to-market application of a technology by Perfect Corp. called AgileHand. Instead of putting a color on the nails of a photo of someone else’s hand or even on a still photo of your own hand, it shows you in real-time what your moving hand looks like wearing your chosen color. You can even use a sliding tool to get an instant before-and-after comparison, as you can see in my screenshot below. (Though let’s pretend we don’t see how bad my before nails look right now, OK?)\