This review is part of the Shooting Star Write-Off...a worthy cause... A charity in SW London is planning to build a hospice for terminally ill children. To publicize this and to raise sponsorship from all mattygrove's drinking buddies, many of us have written a review involving stars. This is my entry.

Ask my mother if her fingernails are really hers and she will say, "You bet they are. I pay for them." Mom has been going to a manicurist once every couple of weeks for at least 20 years. For the last fifteen or so, she has had acrylic fingernails. Mom's fingernails have required numerous changes in her life.

1) She can't bowl anymore,
2) Her fingernails are now to thick for her to scratch a back satisfyingly, and most importantly,
3) She now wears kitchen gloves rather than sticking her hands in soapy warm water.

This shouldn't be a big deal. Every supermarket carries kitchen gloves. If you find the Star Kitchen gloves, you're likely to gasp at the price. Ten or eleven dollars? For vinyl gloves! Why not just go with the normal kitchen gloves? The reason is that the majority of supermarket kitchen gloves are flimsy and uncomfortable. They are made on the principle that one size fits all. Thus, you have big, floppy gloves with finger lengths that are perhaps appropriate for a 7-foot NBA center, but hardly appropriate for my mom. Even with her long fingernails, the usual supermarket gloves were too long for her. Imagine the problems if you didn't have acrylic nails. The star gloves are available in small, medium and large. They have realistic length fingers and don't cut off the circulation in your wrist just because you wanted the smaller size. Actually, while mom complained about the finger length issue, there was something else I hated.

Star gloves don't have that powdery stuff they put inside other kitchen gloves. You know the stuff I'm talking about. You get a drop of dishwasher in the gloves or your *GASP* sweat in them and the powder turns into a mucky, yucky mess. After a week or two using a pair of regular kitchen gloves, they are so skanky that you have to buy a new pair. Star gloves have a cotton liner with no powdery stuff to make gunky mess. They're much more comfy. What's more, since they don't have the powdery stuff inside, you can toss them in the washer and hang them out to dry and they're good to go again. You don't have to buy a new pair everytime they get sweaty or icky inside. Try tossing your normal kitchen gloves in the washer!
This means that the $10 or $11 is going to save you money in the long run! You won't have to replace those flimsy kitchen gloves so often.

Finally, the outside is tough. These will hold up to harsh cleansers and the other rough stuff that you're protecting your fingers from.

You can find the Star Kitchen Vinyl Kitchen Gloves at many supermarkets and specialty stores, or look for them at many on-line kitchen stores. William Sonoma carries a knock-off of these gloves that costs more!

Please read the other write-off entries by these Epinions *stars*....tombarnes, counsel, petra, tigger1313, freak369, lattechick,erocat, psychovant, naphtalia, artbyjude, xifphoid, badkittym, xiphoid, hempe, and our host, mattygroves (our eminent host)

Recommended: Yes