It is indeed very easy to apply. You can't apply it in the rain, which is fair enough, so we drove to the nearest undercover parking lot and applied it there. You just put some on a small area and then wipe it off. Simple as that. I wasn't 100% convinced by the look after the application as it was kind of streaky in places, but then again it did say to apply it to a cold surface, while our bonnet was warm from driving, so maybe that's the reason.
When the product really came to shine was in the rain after the application. The beading was very beady. :) And it has indeed lasted through several washes and almost daily rain. However, what you don't consider beforehand is what happens to those beads when it stops raining. Before applying the wax, after the rain the car simply looked exactly as it did before the rain, whereas now the beads sit around and then dry out leaving ugly water stains all over the car. I have tried to take a photo to show you just how ugly, but we must have a terribly photogenic car, as the stains just don't show up on camera and it looks nice and shiny! Here's what I managed:
We do wonder what the benefits of beading are apart from telling you you need to wax your car again if you don't see beads appear. First, they take ages to dry. Yes, everyone says that the beads will fly off the car when going at 30 miler per hour. But what if the car is stationary? And what if you don't remember the last time you could do 30 miles per hour due to always being stuck in an endless traffic jam? We can't imagine it being very good for the paint to get the sun shining on it through the water drops... And surely it would be more beneficial to have a protective layer that would cause the water to flow down uninterruptedly instead. So far no luck with that, but if we find one, we'll definitely review it here.
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