My current nail polish (Essie, Mint Candy Apple) got chipped from the usual careless treatment. I'm too lazy to clean it all off and redo them, so I just transformed it into a gradient piece. Really easy with translucent, sparkly nail polish. I used a Shiseido pN green lamé over the original creamy pastel green. Simply do one coat over half the nail, and a second coat at the tip to get a gradient effect. Only annoying part is that the fast dry top coat (will get to this later) doesn't completely do its job over the thick jel-like coats.
p.s. just got to Japan! The inflight duty free shopping had a Japan-only 4-color OPI set for only 4400 yen (that's great compared to the usual 2100yen per bottle), but did not get it, so I'm not sure why I even mentioned that.
