Essence - New Colors! Chic Reloaded, Gorgeous Bling Bling, Grey-t To Be Here, Walk on the Wild Side

I picked up a few new Essence polishes at Ulta the week before last.  Essence has revamped their bottle - which is a great improvement as it is a little bigger and much more aesthetically pleasing (curvy!) and they have also updated their brush for the better.  Now the brush is very much like the Sally Hansen Complete Manicure brushes vs stick straight and hard to load.  Along with the 4 that I'm going to show you, I also bought Date in the Moonlight, which was a really pretty shimmery navy blue, but was a big BUST.  It was all weird and linty for some reason when I applied it, even though my nails were perfectly clean, so I didn't take any pictures of it.  Plus, it BUBBLED. Ew.  I'm going to try it again in the future, maybe add some polish thinner to it, but not anytime soon :o/

All these polishes applied very nicely and were all 3 coats with a base coat of Orly Bonder.  I only used a top coat on Walk on the Wild Side.  I should also mention they are a buck 99 a piece.  Nice!

First up:  Gorgeous Bling Bling.  I'm on the fence about this one.  It's really pretty, but I don't know if i really liked it with my skin color or maybe it was the color itself..  I don't know.  It's like a Cognac-y color with flecks of gold mixed in, which is nice, but maybe not so much for a nail polish color.  Maybe I would have liked it more if it was a smidge darker or richer.  Oh and what's with the name??!!

Next is Grey-t to be Here.  A grey with iridescent pink shimmer.  Gorgeous!!

Chic Reloaded.  All I can say is Duo-chrome awesome-ness for $1.99.  Go buy it.

And finally Walk on the Wild Side.  Veeeery pretty.  Even better with SV top coat.  Green shimmery goodness.  This first pic below is the truest to its actual color.  I apologize for the variation in color and blame it on my camera. ☺  

 What do you think of these?  Gonna buy???  Have you tried Essence before?

Until next time!  ☻

American Apparel Goodness! Cameo Blue, Lopez Canyon, African Violet Swatches

So, I had promised myself I would get finish uploading all my Fall 2011 swatches to my blog and I sorely disappointed myself.  In a mad dash, last ditch effort, I’m going to make up for lost time and churn out the blogs with the speed of Superman. They may not be wordy, but it will happen.
On this edition of speed blogging, we have American Apparel polishes that were new for Fall 2011 - Cameo Blue, Lopez Canyon and African Violet. Most folks don’t think of nail polish when they think of American Apparel, but hopefully this will make a few folks check out their collection next time their in an America Apparel store and also hopefully, those folks will be as pleasantly surprised as I was when I first tried them out last year with Mouse, Factory Grey and Peacock (which are some really sweet colors too).
Here is Cameo Blue. Blues and red and greens are hard to photo, but I think these pics are as close to how it appears in person as I could get it.  Same goes for Lopez Canyon as it is a burnt orange color.  All of these swatches were 3 coats with a top coat of SV and all 3 are shiny as all hell, as you will see, aaaa-and application was “like buttah” with these guys.  Thank you, American Apparel, for putting out such nice economical polishes.  Right now these bad boys are 3/$15 on their website and they have added some glitters and metallics that I need to peruse for possible future purchasing.  American Apparel



Please excuse the index finger dent :(