Comparison: China Glaze At Vase Value

China Glaze At Vase Value is a pale minty aqua creme polish that looks blue besides a green, and looks green besides a blue. Go figure.

For today's comparison, I'll be doing China Glaze's At Vase Value vs the following:

China Glaze Re-fresh Mint
China Glaze Aquadelic
Essie Borrowed & Blue

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China Glaze At Vase Value vs China Glaze Re-fresh Mint

China Glaze At Vase Value: Middle Finger, Pinky
China Glaze Re-fresh Mint: Index Finger, Ring Finger

Placed beside China Glaze Re-fresh Mint, which is a pure light mint green, At Vase Value is looking totally light sky blue here.

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China Glaze At Vase Value vs China Glaze Aquadelic

China Glaze At Vase Value: Middle Finger, Pinky
China Glaze Aquadelic: Index Finger, Ring Finger

My swatch looked a little too blue here, both of them are actually slightly teal with Aquadelic being more green.

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China Glaze At Vase Value vs Essie Borrowed & Blue

China Glaze At Vase Value: Middle Finger, Pinky
Essie Borrowed & Blue: Index Finger, Ring Finger

Surprisingly, this is actually the closest comparison I can get for At Vase Value. Placed beside Essie Borrowed & Blue, a pale baby blue, the green in At Vase Value finally managed to show through.

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China Glaze At Vase Value is certainly becoming my favorite creme blue to use. Such a pretty & unique color!

Someone did commented on one of my posts that At Vase Value is actually the aqua blue version of Essie Mint Candy Apple, but I don't have that polish to compare with. So you have that one, please do a comparison for us! :)

Soft Shades Floral

Did a manicure using 2 of the soft shades from the OPI Oz collection - OPI Don't Burst My Bubble and OPI What Wizardry Is This?.

This is my first time using OPI's sand polishes and I'm impressed by it! I had 2 coats on for this mani and the polish dry to this fine gritty texture that's not really like the China Glaze's texture collection.

OPI's sand is more fine with the texture evenly and densely spread out without effort. They are really easy to remove too!

I also stamped on some floral prints using cheeky plates CH16 with Essie No Place Like Chrome to complete the feminine look.

So what do you think of this mani? Do you like it? :)

Polishes Used:
OPI Don't Burst My Bubble
OPI What Wizardry Is This?
Essie No Place Like Chrome

Sweet Nails!

I finally got my OPI Euro collection and OPI Oz The Great & Powerful collection two days ago so I decide to do a sweet nails with my new polishes!

I thought that the soft shades in Oz collection were just boring nude shades thus I was really pleasantly surprised when I noticed that they were jellies! I love OPI jellies so of course, I had to do a jelly sandwich!

For my first 3 fingers, I did a jelly sandwich using OPI I Theodora You and OPI Polka.com. The colorful glitters are just nicely muted by the light pink I Theodora You.. Isn't it just gorgeous?!

I had only wanted to do an accent nail on my ring finger but accidentally painted my pinkie as well.. So today I have a weird design of double accent nails. LOL

The design on my ring and pinkie finger is a design I saw from a Pinterest tutorial. It's supposed to be a triple heart design, but now when I look it.. I think it would have looked better if I painted it the other way round.. -.-"

That's all for today! What do you think of my sweet nails today?

Polishes Used:
Essie Fiji
OPI Can’t Find My Czechbook
OPI You’re Such A BudaPest
OPI I Theodora You
OPI Polka.com

Glam Nails!

Gave my nails a little glam today with a mixture of Leopard & Zebra prints, and an accent nail with China Glaze Glistening Snow.

Glistening Snow is a silver with holographic glitter polish that is meant to be used on it's own more than as a glitter top coat as it's too opaque. The formula and finish for this polish is the same as many others released by China Glaze such as - Hello Gorgeous (Pink), I'm Not Lion (Champagne), I Herd That (Copper).. This finish is really becoming one of my favourite! It's easy to apply and the bling is always just right. Love love!

For my animal prints, I sucks at doing Zebra, so I stamped on the zebra print on part of my nails with Bundle Monster plate BM-223 and free handed the leopard prints on. Overall I think I overdid the Zebra prints, but it looks okay from afar, so I'll just leave it as it is. You might have already noticed, I'm not so much of a perfectionist. =P

That's all for today, chaos!

Polishes Used:
Essie Wife Goes On
OPI Just Spotted The Lizard
China Glaze Glistening Snow

Tutorial Tuesday!

I have another group mani today! And incase you noticed, I decided to give up on black background because it's really too hard to get a good picture with it. :(

Usually I would get my picture in one or two shot, but with black background, it's endless snaps and still no good photo. So hello white again~

Today's theme was to do our nails based on a tutorial and so I decided to do one of the tutorial from Robin Moses! Robin Moses is a great nail artist but her nail arts are usually way out of my league. This is probably the only I can do.



I didnt want to do them differently for each hand so I did alternate polka dots and stripds between each nail. My polka dots are quite okay but my stripds are not. How did she get those straight lines!!


Polishes Used:
OPI Play The Peonies
OPI Suzi Loves Cowboys
China Glaze Re-fresh Mint
Essie Bikini So Teeny
Essie Off The Shoulder

Double Tips

Felt like doing something with Easter feel since it's around the corner but didn't really want to do something complicated so I decided to just go with some pastel colours.

Double french tips in the prettiest baby blue (Essie Borrowed & Blue) with OPI Planks Alot & acrylic ribbon on pointer finger. It's a little weird to have my pointer finger as the accent finger, but I forgot about wanting to have an accent finger again & painted all the other fingers already. Oh well..

Polishes Used:
Essence Sweet As Candy
Essie Borrowed & Blue
OPI Planks Alot
China Glaze Candie
LA Color Ice Breaker