Essence - Midnight Date & City That Never Sleeps

This is one coat of Essence City That Never Sleeps over Midnight Date it is a really pretty combo I don't normally layer flakies over a blue base so was surprised how good it looks!

As much as I like the colors the Essence double ended polishes are an absolute pain to use as you have to hold on to one half of the polish while you try to paint your nails i'm lucky I have a steady hand I don't know if i'll be buying anymore of these I really prefer regular shaped nail polish bottles i'm a bit to OCD for oddly shaped ones especially skulls hearts stars etc what do you think?

Essie Spring 2012 - Go Overboard

Essie Go Overboard Collection is a trio of nautical inspired shades set to be released for spring 2012, once again I am not sure of the exact release date but it looks like the colors may be available at some stores in the USA already.

Go Overboard

Play Date

Armed And Ready

Shine Of The Times - Essie Luxeffects Textured Top Coat Collection

Essie's New Luxeffects Collection is hugely popular this year with Shine Of The Times being the must have from the collection, there are lots of other flakies available at the moment from Cult Nails, Nubar, Picture Polish, Nfu Oh and more personally I am dying to try the new flakie from Nails Inc, The Old Vic Collection.

I have swatched Shine Of The Times over purple, black, blue and teal nail polishes to show the effects it can create, my favourite is Shines Of The Times of the purple base but the black base stands out a lot better in the pics!

1. Color Club Express Yourself, 2. China Glaze Liquid Leather,
3. OPI DS Magic, 4. China Glaze DV8

Essie Shine Of The Times over China Glaze Liquid Leather

Essie Blanc Zebra Mani (Konad m57)

Oh my god this was the hardest stamping mani I have done so far never stamp with white as a base although it looks awesome it shows up all the imperfections and I had to repaint and redo the stamping over and over again to get a result I was happy with, the photos look great though love the mix of colors!

Essie A Spring To Invest In Collection - Spring 2012

Continuing with the spring 2012 line up Essie's first release for the new year will be the A Spring To Invest In Collection featuring six juicy new shades, very cute collection but nothing out of the ordinary from Essie a few of the colours look similar to colours from the summer 2011 Braziliant Collection. There is also news of the Essie 2012 Resort collection but good pics yet will post another update about this collection soon.

Navigate Her, A Crewed Interest, To Buy Or Not To Buy, Tour De Finance, Ole Caliente, Orange, It's Obvious.

Navigate Her - fresh light green

A Crewed Interest - peach

To Buy or Not To Buy - shimmery soft lilac

Tour de Finance - shimmery fuchsia

Ole Caliente - red orange

Orange, It's Obvious - bright orange

Essie Luxeffects - Textured Top Coats

Just a quick post today, Essie's new holiday textured top coats collection "Luxeffects" has just been released in the USA.

A couple of the top coats look quite interesting especially "As Gold As It Gets" & "Shine of The Times" and a couple of the top coats look quite similar to some of the colours from the China Glaze speciality colours glitter's collection, I think I will have try a few these top coats out when I receive them, stay tuned for more pics to come.

As Gold As It Gets, Shine Of The Times, A Cut Above, Set In Stones, Pure Pearlfection.

As Gold As It Gets

My USA Nail Polish Haul!

It's been a week now since I got back from the USA, I have desperately been wanting to swatch all the new colours I brought but have been super busy the last week and had to get to my nails done before I could start swatching, I brought some awesome colours while I was away lots of Holographics & Glitters and some really great finds only available in the USA.

Pictured above are some of the nail polishes I brought on my trip I will be trying to swatch them all over the next few weeks, I was in nail polish heaven while I was away some of the brands I purchased were Sephora by OPI, Nicole by OPI, Nails Inc London, Piggy Polish, Zoya, Island Girl, Sinful Colours, Sally Hansen, ibd, OPI  Designer Series as well as the usual OPI, Essie, Orly & China Glaze.