Essie Butler Please

Hi guys! Today I'm showing you another polish from Essies Winter 2012 collection. This is called Butler Please. It's a medium-dark cobolt blue creme. I'm not immidiatley drawn to these colours for some reason, I like creme light blues, but once they head into medium blue teritory I like them to be shimmery or glittery. 

Anyway, I used three coats here, but you might be able to do two if you're careful with the application because I found this to be a little bit gloopy and harder to work with than other Essie polishes usually are.

Essie Where's My Chauffeur? Swatch & Comparison

Hi guys! Today I'm showing you Essie Where's My Chauffeur from their holiday 2012 collection, I can never pass up a turquoise!

I used two fairly generous coats for essies small brush.

I then decided to do a quick comparison with a few popular turquoise shades you might have.

Left to Right:
China Glaze For Audrey, Orly Frisky, Essie Where's My Chauffeur?, Zoya Wednesday, Essie Turqouise & Caicos.

No 100% dupes here, the closest by far was Orly Frisky (In Real Life) While Frisky is more opaque it stains like a bitch which I didn't experience when removing Where's My Chauffeur?

Matte Glitter Manicure: Feat. China Glaze Halloween 2012 Make A Spectacle

Hi guys! Today I want to show you a cool combination I did using a polish from China Glaze's 2012 Halloween Collection Wicked callec Make A Spectacle

I used a base of Essie No More Film and then added Make A Spectacle which is a multi coloured irridescent glitter polish. I then finished off with a coat of Essie Matte About You.

Please excuse the weird lighting, the sun was on its way down when I took this picture :)

Thanks For Reading!

Do you prefer glitter matte or glossy?

Rasberry Blue Bell Dotticure

Hi guys! So it's a beautiful Spring day here in Australia, and I'm feeling the urge to go jump in the pool! Today I have a really cute dotticure that screams spring/summer.

I used a base of Essie Watermelon (2 coats) which is smack bam in the middle between a hot pink and a red and then used Orly Frisky to create some diagonal dots across my nails using a dotting tool from ebay. I hope you like it!

Quick Swatch: Essie Go Overboard

Hi guys so I wanted to swatch Essies Go Overboard for you today, I got this shade about a year ago and it was really the shade that changed my whole oppinion of Essie. I love this colour, it is completely 110% opaque in one thin coat and I don't think you could get streaks if you tried.

Nubar Lavender & Essie Pure Pearlfection

Hi guys today I'm wearing one of my favourite lavender colours, this is Lavender by Nubar that was released as part of a pastel collection a few years back. I use two coats for total coverage and it has a fantastic formula. This is my favourite lavender colour I've found so far. I used to really love OPIs Do You Lilac It but I decided I wanted something more blue toned so I swapped it away years ago.

 I then decided to add a coat of Essie Pure Pearlfection for some shimmer :P

What's Your favourite Pastel Purple?

Essie A Crewed Interest!

Hi guys! So I recently recieved this Essie polish in a swap and I'm really loving it so I wanted to give you a quick look! This is A Crewed Interest. It is a super light peach colour that deffinately gives a neautral/nude work appropriate look.

I love it! I've read online that many people had formula issues with this polish but I didn't. It's possible it's previous owner may have thinned it, I don't know, but I did two fairly thick coats and it turned out lovely!

Thanks For Reading!

Have you had any polishes that you''ve heard are horrible to apply but work well for you?

Essie No More Film

Hi guys! Today I wanted to show you a polish I recently picked up from this years Resort Collection by Essie. This is No More Film. No More Film is a dark creme blurple which to me leans a bit more blue than purple.

It applied nicely, requiring two coats for full opacity.

Did you pick anything up from Essie's resort collection this year?

Essie Mojito Madness!

Hi guys! Today I have another polish from Essie's Bikini So Teeny collection. This is Mojito Madness, it's a bright mid tone green that is completely unique in my collection. It may be similar to the green released in China Glaze ElectroPop collection however.

Mojito Madness applied lovely and was opaque in two coats, I think the formula was a little runny, but still manageable.

mmmm mojitos!

Essie Bikini So Teeny

Hi guys! Today I'm wearing an Essie Polish from their Bikini So Teeny Summer collection. This light periwinkle is the namesake, Bikini So Teeny. It's a little bit lighter than Essie's Lapis of Luxury. In the bottle it also has some pink, blue and silver shimmer but it does not show up on the nail what so ever.

Bikini So Teeny applied well and was opaque in two coats.

I was in a bit of a rush when painting my nails so that's why I didn't do the best cleanup job (hello running my nail across my cuticles in attempt to remove wet polish).

Thanks For Reading!

Essie Mint Candy Apple

Sorry guys, long time no blog! As usual real life gets in the way of nail polish lol but rest assured I do have some good posts coming up!

Today I'm wearing Essie Mint Candy Apple. This is a super light mint green colour that came out a few years back. This is my favourite mint! It's opaque in two thick coats, and not streaky unless you don't have enough on the brush.

I love this colour!

Sorry about the shitty photo, I had to take it while walking through my work car park trying to avoid looking like a crazy lady taking pictures of her hands lol!

Essie Turquoise & Caicos with As Gold As It Gets: Inspired by Orsay from Sigma

Hi guys! I mentioned in my Sigma Paris Palette review that I NEEDED A nail polish in the colour Orsay. Well today I thought I'd try an replicate it!

I used Essie Turquoise and Caicos which is the prettiest colour, but I don't use it often because I have other turquoise polishes with a nicer and more opaque formula. This is two super thick coats. I then used one coat of Essie As Gold As It Gets from the Luxeffects collection.

And here is Orsay:

 Obviously it isn't exact, but close :)

China Glaze On Safari: Exotic Encounters Swatch & Comparison

Hi guys, today I'm showing you one of the polishes from the new China Glaze On Safari Collection for Summer 2012. This is a collection of twelve shades that are a lot more 'fall' colours than the traditional summer shades, but then again China Glaze just released a 12 piece neon collection aha.

The first one I'm showing you is Exotic Encounters.

Exotic Encounters is a creme teal which leans A LOT more toward the green side. It also has a dustiness  to it. It applied well with no streaks, but I did find that the brush seemed to pick up a lot more polish than I needed, even when wiping some off, so something to keep in mind. This polish was very pigmented and you could totally get away with one coat if you so wished. I did two coats in my swatches as photos tend to bring out every inconsistancy in polish aha.

 I also did a comparison for you guys.

Left: OPI Jade Is The New Black, Middle: Exotic Encounters, Right: Essie Go Overboard.

Thanks for Reading! 

Are you planning on picking anything up  from this collection?

Teal shimmer Nails & Makeup Look!

Hi guys, today I'm showing you my teal look aha, I'm going to a party tonight and thought I'd spice it up with my makeup, I did teal nails to match but they aren't as bright as my eyes lol

 Sorry for the cellphone pic! 

This is Essie Go Overboard (ONE COAT!) I freaking love this polish such a great and pigmented formula I'm not especially used to from Essie! I then did one coat of CND Sapphire Sparkle to sort of brighten it a bit!

 Here you can see the bright vibrancy of the makeup

Here it looks a bit toned down..

I used Too Faced shadow insurance, Urban decay foxy on my brow bone, I then used the new Sigma Paris Pallette for the rest of they eye. I have Lourve in the crease and outercorner as well as the bottom lashline, I used a tiny bit or Orsay in the centre and then Verseilles in the inner corner. I also used Eiffel to darken the crease slightly and a teeny bit on the lower lashline. I also have some no name false lashes just on the edges of my eye.

Click Here for my reveiw of the sigma paris palette
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Essie Lapis of Luxury & CND Sapphire Sparkle

Hi guys, so after the absolute delight it was to remove Zoya Dove from yesterday compared to Tinsel Town the day before lol, I decided to wear another creme. Today I'm wearing Essie Lapis of Luxury.

Lapis of Luxury has a slightly jellyish formula in my oppinion, but applies super easy without streaks. I used three coats - but you can get away with two.

 And since I can rarely leave a plain creme alone, I decided to add CND sapphire sparkle over the top. It looks so pretty in real life, with a really prominent electric blue shimmer with slight purple/pink duochrome, but of course, camera did not pick it up lol

Zoya Wednesday Swatch & Comparison

Hey guys, SUPER quick post showing you Zoya Wednesday from their 2012 Beach collection. Wednesday is a green leaning turquoise with a slight dustiness to it. 

This creme applied easily in two coats.
I did experience a bit of staining on my skin when removing this polish.

So the furthest left is Zoya Wednesday, OPI Mermaids Tears, China Glaze For Audrey, Zoya Wednesday (again), Essie Turquoise & Caicos, Color Club Blue-ming & Essie Mint Candy Apple. These are actually all one coat.

Essie Play Date & Pure Pearlfection

Hi guys, just showing you what I'm wearing today :) This is two coats of Essie Play Date from their 2012 Go Overboard collection and then one coat of Pure Pearlfection from their Luxeffects collection.

Color Club Blue-ming Swatch & Comparison

Hi guys! Today I'm wearing Color Club's Blue-Ming from their 2012 Spring Blossoming collection.

Blue-Ming is a gorgous and suprisingly unique turquoise creme.

The formula wasn't bad per se` but not great either. Thin coats left the polish streaky, but it was hard to get enough polish on the small, thin brush to make it apply evenly. This swatch is two thick coats.

I don't really understand why this polish is called Blue-ming because it really leans on the green side of turquoise, but absolutely gorgeous colour. I also added a silver rhinestone at the cuticle - cause I could lol

I then decided to do a quick comparison with a few comon and popular turquoise cremes.

As you can see, no dupes here!

L-R: ORLY Frisky, China Glaze For Audrey, Color Club Blue-ming, Essie Turquoise & Caicos, China Glaze Aquadellic

Essie Watermelon

Hi guys, today I'm showing you Essie Watermelon. I got this in a swap with an amazing MUA'er who included heaps of extras all of which were wishlist dupes and a sample bottle of China Glaze FYI! Anyway, enough praising lol and onto the polish.

I'm wearing two coats of watermelon which had fabulous formula, super smooth application

I'm at a loss to describe this colour, It's not quite pink, it's not quite red. But it is stunning. I love it!

Comparison: Essie Smooth Sailing vs. Zoya Skylar

Hi guys just wanted to do a quick comparison today because I know some people were wondering how the new Zoya Skylar compares to Essie Smooth Sailing. I wasn't going to post this comparison because I wasn't very happy with the photos, but they aren't that bad lol

 L- Skylar R- Smooth Sailing

As you can see, no dupes here. They do actually look more different in real life believe it or not. Smooth Sailing almost looks purple next to Skylar which is a dusty slate blue while Smooth Sailing is very periwinkle. Besides the base colours which are very different, the shimmer is also different. Smooth Sailing has a silver shimmer (in some lights you see little hints of pink and blue too) and Skylars shimmer is almost a mixture of silver and gold. I think Skylars shimmer is more noticable. Both colours apply super well. This is two coats of each.