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!