About 5 of the brushes were ruined after a just a few applications of the gel nail polish. I like the nail polish, but something must be done about the brushes because I spent around $8 on each bottle of nail polish only to find out that all of the brushes started to come apart before I got a quarter way through the polish in the bottle. That's a lot of wasted money when you cannot use the brush. User's recommendation: Don't waste your money unless the brushes have been changed.