Essie Mint Candy Apple is a repromote for their Spring/Summer ’13 collection from the 2009 Essie Winter collection.
Mint Candy Apple is a bluish pistachio shade. It’s very fitting for winter and it worked perfectly with the pastel trends we saw this past spring and summer.
I tried my best to love Mint Candy Apple because of the shade is so beautiful but alas, I cannot get over the application and finish.
It’s streaky and kind of drags along the nail bed. Even after two coats, it’s not and opaque finish – you can see all the streaks. The formula is not very forgiving.
I really want to love this so if you have any tips on how to make it work, please share!
I had a similar Essie color from the spring collection and it was an awful formula.
Essie has such great colors but I feel like it’s so hit & miss lately :(
Pretty colour. Too bad about the formula. :(
I know :(
Ah Essie. I love them but hate them for the reasons you mentioned. One that I have is SUPER streaky, so I end up using another brush that I bought on eBay to apply it. Another thing I found helped me to ensure that each coat was completely dry, but I mean who has time for that :T But I do like the colour on you~
Really though… who has time to wait 10+ minutes between each coat!? lol