Product Review: My Beauty Diary Q10 Rejuvenating Mask

Quite some time ago, I went on a massive My Beauty Diary masks haul. 

I was aware of the fake MBD masks circulating around, so I was a little apprehensive to buy it online. But I found a reputable seller, so I went ahead with it.

The last time I used a MBD mask was a couple of months ago, and I didn't bother to do a review on it. Not this time though. 

My skin isn't oily, it just need a little brightening as I few it's a little dull these days. 

This is one of the better mask of MBD. In fact, I think this is the best. The mask fits perfectly and somehow I feel it's thinner and fits like a glove compared to the other ones that I've used. It looks more transparent in fact. But then again, it's been a while since I last use one... 

The essence in Q10 is slimy. Yes, slimy and sticky once it dries.. Maybe that's why the mask adhere so well to my face. 

The smell... is like normal fragrance, like a rose lotion smell.

Oh well, I guess my skin could use the pampering some times. It's not a miracle mask, so I don't expect anything much after 1 treatment. It feels refreshing, like after u wash your face. So nothing to shout about really.

On a different note, Nubar Forest is holding up pretty well. This is day 5, minor tip wear and a little chip on the pinkie and thumb. Not bad at all ehh...

Nubar Forest Day 5

To be fair, the chip on pinkie is probably because I missed it with the seche vite top coat.

Nubar forest day 5 minor chip

Nubar Forest Day 5 thumb chip

Not bad at all eh? But then again, it was one of the few nail polish that I haven't got bored of after 5 days of wear. I should probably start testing the wears of all my nail polish. hmmm..

P.S : Q10 mask is so sticky on my face now I had to resist the urge to wash my face eeeeeekkk.

Nubar Forest

My long awaited Nubar Forest arrived today~ whooohooo...
I have a thing for green. Especially green creme.
There's something about creme that just gets me. When I apply and it's smooth and opaque, it transforms my mood to euphoria~

Nubar Forest + sv top coat

So I have here Nubar Forest on my nails, a deep green with a little blue undertone. I expected a dark green with tiny yellow undertone but this is not it. The colour is a little muted, it doesn't jump at you and say, HEY I'M GREEN LOOK AT ME. Rather, it has that grey muted dark blue tone green, but it's green, you wouldn't call it a grey, it just doesn't catch you in the eye if you know what I mean.

Nubar Forest

Nubar forest is a deep green creme, the color seems to calm me whenever I feel agitated, which is quite a lot lately with the pressure and dateline piling up.

Application wise was terrible.
Ok, probably I over-anticipated it as I've read that application for Nubar was suppose to be perfect and all that blah... well... it was  too watery for me.
When I finished applying two coats, it pooled all over my cuticles in the worst way. The clean up didn't take that long, but I don't know it's the brush or what in Nubar, but my cuticles seems to be drenched in the polish after application. I think it's the brush... which always took a weird giant side swipe at the cuticles when it's nearing them, which is really irritating.

Nubar Forest

Drying time was really really slow because it's so watery. It's longer than the china glaze and OPI that I'm used to, which explains the smudges being so bad that I had to redo 4 of my nails. :(

Luckily seche vite top coat came to the rescue!

After the seche vite top coat, my nail polish shines! Me looooves seche vite! You can literally see my reflection here. It's like a mirror image. Love the shine seche vite brings!

All in all, LOVE the color, say no to the formula and the brush, but still a good purchase.

Being my first Nubar color, it sort of disillusioned me from the brand... :(
I really expected a lot from Nubar... but for now, it acts as a cold water poured over my hot Nubar fever. Didn't live up to the hype. :( Sad. I wanted to love Nubar. I really did. Maybe next time.

China Glaze Refresh Mint French Manicure

I've been pretty rough with my fingers these few days, so arghhhh.... I got some tip wear and small chips on my forefinger especially, and on my left hand too! But I like this color too much to take it off, so I made some changes to extend the life of my mani.

China Glaze Refresh Mint, Tips OPI Alpine Snow

Haha... yeaps~ french tips. I saw it somewhere on the web, can't remember where exactly though, but it was so so sweet with the milky green and pure white tips, that I copied it too. It's so nice! I don't have to change my manicure for the chips on my tips anymore~

I used the little french tips stickers to do this. 

But I tried to konad with M19, the french manicure plate on my right hand. It didn't turn out too well. Ah well, maybe next time. 

Using the french tips will make the tips feel much thicker, whereas if you stamp it, it's actually pretty smooth and natural, so I would really love to master stamping french tips with konad plates.

I used seche vite to smoothen my nails, but I used the Konad Top Coat on the forefinger in the photo, and look what it did! It bubbles like craaaaazy! Argh.... my smooth manicure bubbles and now it looks like the surface of the moon. NOT cool. I'm gonna avoid using the Konad Top Coat even though I've still about 90% left. Such a waste!

China Glaze Refresh Mint

One of the colors that I absolutely adore - China Glaze Refresh Mint

China Glaze Refresh Mint

It's a milky mint green, like a breath of fresh air on my nails. It's absolutely new to see such delightful light mint milky green on my nails. Reminds me of mint ice-cream.

China Glaze Refresh Mint

Application wise, this is a PITA. It's gloopy and really difficult to manage. And it dries quite fast, so it's pretty hard if you want to repair that little streak of bald spot on the same coat. You'll have to wait till it dries completely to repair that bald streak. It became a little patchy, thick and uneven if I tried to repair it on the same coat. Geezz...

China Glaze Refresh Mint

Lucky for me I had some Seche Vite thinner in hand, so after 3 drops, it evens out to the consistency I want.

It is a two coater for its original formula, very opaque, but after thinning it out with the thinner, it's still a two coater, though you might require three coats if you aren't careful. No biggie for me.

China Glaze Refresh Mint

All in all, a lovely pastel milky mint green polish. It makes me look a little more tan than I really am, but it's a really great polish, love the colour, it's like a high end doll dress colour. Lovely! Hope you will like it too!

PS: Just realised there's a little unknown particle on my little finger, must be some unidentified glitter in my seche vite, but it's not on my fingernails now.. weird... enjoy~

Skittle Pastel Manicure

I have quite a lot of untrieds in my stash, so after going back and forth among the bottles for nearly half an hour, I finally decided on a skittle manicure so I can wear every color. Yay!!

I wanted something fun and colorful, some cheerful nails, so this is what I came out with:

On my right hand:

Skittle pastel manicure: (L to R) OPI Alpine Snow, Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau, China Glaze Refresh Mint, China Glaze Something Sweet, OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender

This is my first skittle manicure, and I jazzed it up with some stamping on it.

I wanted something creative, so I stamped each finger with a different design. It looks sort of like a kindergarten wallpaper, doesn't it?

Thumb: OPI Alpine Snow stamped with China Glaze Someting Sweet; m79

Fore: Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau stamped with Konad White Special Polish, M79

Middle: China Glaze Refresh Mint stamped with OPI Alpine Snow; m79

Ring: China Glaze Someting sweet stamped with OPI Alpine Snow; m64

Little: OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender stamped with Konad White Polish; m35

I did it with my right hand too, but in different order. I didn't want a matchy matchy manicure which looks boring.

Skittle Pastel Manicure

I alternate between Alpine Snow OPI and the Konad Special white polish, I don't prefer one over the another for stamping, it all gets the same look anyway.

I know I know... my stamping is off and the alignment is bad and all that, but you get the look I was sporting, right? Right??

I get a lot of compliments on this manicure, so I'm happy! :D

Hope you like them!