Essie Peach Daiquiri, No More Film, Madison Ave- Hue, and Avenue Maintain swatches and review

Hello readers!
So today I'm going to swatch and review some Essie polish that I've recently picked up. I also purchased a shade from their new summer 2013 collection, and will do swatches of that soon.

So first to swatch is Essie Peach Daiquiri. Essie Peach Daiquiri is a really bright pink that can look coral in some lighting. It's a really beautiful shade for summer and has good formula. This polish is easy to work with, it's opaque in two coats and dries fast and glossy. Pictures show no topcoat.

Essie No More Film- A deep inky violet with blue undertones. This is the best formula I've ever worked with from an Essie polish. The formula was smooth, creamy, and opaque in one thicker coat. It dried really fast and very glossy, and is a very elegant shade and a great alternative to a plain black polish. Pictures show no topcoat.

Essie Madison Ave-Hue- A pretty magenta polish with subtle silver shimmer. Although I love the magenta shade of this polish, the silver shimmer is not noticeable once you paint it on, and it looks as if the polish is dirty or had mistakes in the application. Bummer, but it's still a very pretty and summery color. This polish is opaque in two coats and dries average, and glossy. Pictures show no topcoat.

Here's a pic of the silver shimmer in the polish, it looks a lot better in the bottle than on the actual nail.

Essie Avenue Maintain- A medium sky blue. I apologize for the bubbling in the pictures! My base coat is getting gloppy and it caused it to bubble which showed through when I applied the polish. I'll post a pic of when I did a gradient with the same polish so that you can get an idea of what it looks like when it's smooth. This polish is opaque in two thin coats, it dries fast, but not as glossy so I've applied topcoat.

Here is a picture of a past manicure I've done using Essie Avenue Maintain, you can really get an idea of what a pretty polish it is when i'ts smooth!

I'll soon post a swatch and review of one of the shades from Essie's new summer 2013 collection. What do you think of these polishes? Have you tried these shades before? Let me know in the comments below!

Essie Butler Please review and rhinestone accent nail!

Hello readers! So, I'm gonna start swatching and reviewing some Essie polish. However, i'm not going to post it all at once, but look forward to some reviews in the upcoming posts. So to start off the reviews, a review of Essie Butler Please. I didn't take pictures before I added a rhinestone accent nail, sorry.

Essie Butler Please is a bright and vivid blue. It is almost a royal blue color, but lighter, a very beautiful shade. Although this shade is nice and very fun, I didn't find it particularly flattering on my tanned skin. The formula of polish was well pigmented, however, it dries super fast, too fast for my liking because it caused some balding/ patching to occur when I went over the same place twice so I had to work quickly. The polish dries satin, so I had to use top coat. All pictures show two coats and top coat.

Under artificial light, my skin looks way more tan than it is in real life, it actually shows a better picture of what the color looks like though in real life though.

In shade.

I love this picture, the blue came out so nice here! I'll soon continue with more reviews with some nail art in between that. What do you think of this mani? Let me know in the comments below!

Color Club Electro Midnight review!

So, it's been a while since my last post where I've recently reviewed Essie Sssssexy which you can see here. I planned on continuing that review on my natural nails, but unfortunately the pictures I took on my natural nails were not good quality. I did swatch the polish on a falsie, and will show those pictures, and one picture on my natural nails although for some reason they won't rotate.

So sorry that this picture isn't the best either, the next ones will be better quality and you'll see the magnetic effect better. So I started with one coat of Color Club Electro Midnight and then waited till it was completely dry. Drying time was fast, and this color was opaque with one coat, but I applied another coat anyways. After I applied the second coat, I immediately hovered the magnet over the polish, because otherwise the effect does not show well. This polish has good opacity, dries fast, and very glossy. First two pictures show no top coat.

I repainted this nail because the waves came out crooked, and you'll see better magnet effects in the next picture.

This picture also shows no top coat, you can see the pretty blue shimmer in this picture.

With flash, this picture also shows the silver and blue shimmer very well. 

On my natural nails. I'm not sure why, but this picture won't rotate. I'll just post it anyways to give you an idea of what it looks like on natural nails.

Overall, I like these polishes. They have similar formulas, but I was disappointed in Essie's snakeskin effect cap, so I prefer Color Club Electro Midnight. I like the magnetic effect, but so far I haven't come over very many unique colors when it comes to magnetic polishes. I personally don't know if I would purchase magnetic polish again, although they do have a nice effect.

What do you think of this mani? Any questions, let me know in the comments below!

Magnetic polish! Essie Sssssexy and Magnetic Force Electro Midnight by Color Club

So for today's post I have some magnetic nail polish to show you. These are the first magnetic nail polishes I've ever gotten so I will show pictures and then review them, but since I have no other polishes to compare them to, my opinions about magnetic polishes are based on just these two polishes. Here is a picture of the polishes in the bottle.

Sorry that the picture is so dark, it's night and there's really bad lighting in my house so I couldn't get a better picture. The colors are actually pretty close to how they are in person. Essie Sssssexy is a metallic iron man red color, and Color Club Electro Midnight is a really silvery metallic blue. Magnetic polishes always look completely silver/metallic in the bottle but the actual polish is a lot brighter and ever more vibrant after top coat. First to show you is Essie Sssssexy which is part of their snakeskin magnetic collection.

                                                               

                                                                    In direct sunlight

in shade

and with flash

 

So if you noticed, Essie Sssssexy's bottle comes with the magnetic snakeskin print cap that can be removed. Unlike Color Club, the Essie polish doesn't have a small stand on the cap, that lets you hover the magnet over the polish without messing up the magnet effect. Along with that, I noticed that the Essie magnet cap wasn't very strong at all! In fact... I couldn't even use it on my nails! The wavy magnetic effect came from the cap of the Color Club polish. The snakeskin effect Essie promises looks so beautiful, but it didn't work for me at all! I think it might work for someone with short nails, because I noticed that only the middle of the magnet was actually strong enough to create the snakeskin effect. So, what I was left with was this messy looking manicure with snakeskin pattern in only the middle of my nails. Huge bummer. I will review the Color Club Polish and talk more about the Essie polish in tomorrow's post. 

Did you like Essie magnetic polish? Let me know in the comments below!