Sneak peek at Nailene's new SKINNY French Tip Pen!

I am obsessed with reading other bloggers' sneak-peeks and first-looks so when I am lucky enough to get one myself, I totally freak out. And that's exactly what I did last week when the kind folks at Nailene sent me the new Skinny French Tip Pen recently for review. This baby isn't even on store shelves yet, but it will be very soon (you'll start to see them at your local drugstores in February).

Wanna see? OK, here we go!

If you own one of Nailene's other French Tip Pens (click here to see my review of my favorite Pearl White pen), then you're probably wondering how the two tips compare. Here's a pic of the Skinny tip:

And here's a pic of the standard tip (this is the Pearl White pen):

And now let me show you how this baby performs. I applied one coat of Nailene Skinny French Tip Pen to my bare nails and I did NOT use Nailene Nail Guides, which I love and am usually hopeless without. I really wanted to test out this new skinny tip and see if it could improve the quality of my French mani lines, and guess what? It really, truly did. I was able to make MUCH cleaner lines and with much more precision and ease, compared to the standard tip.

(Apologies for this pic but I wanted to apply this and snap a pic as fast as I could so I took this before I cleaned up or applied top coat)

Now some of you may be saying, "Her lines aren't that great." But let me tell you something: I suck at freehand French mani tips. Seriously, I would never wear a French mani at all if it weren't for my beloved Nailene Nail Guides. I simply cannot draw a clean, straight line on my nail beds without them. So what you see in this picture above is pretty close to perfection for me, given that I did this freehand and without the help of guides. I am still amazed that I could do so well. This new tip really helps you get the precision you need (especially on the sides of your nail beds) and as you can see, even for a klutz like me, the clean-up is very minimal. In fact, I'm willing to bet that if you're a better French mani artist than me, you'll have little to no clean-up at all.

So tell me, when the Nailene Skinny French Tip Pen hits store shelves in your area, will be you picking one up? I'd love to hear if you're as excited about this new product as I am. So far I am loving it!

PS: It just occurred to me that you can probably do some fun nail art with this skinny tip too! I'll try out polka dots and post some pics later in the week.

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