NOTD - Essie - "On a Silver Platter"

Here are the swatches of the one polish I bought from the new Encrusted Treasure collection -" on a silver platter".  

Swatches:

I could only swatch it on one finger, but you see its lovely colour. I used three coats.

Love,

Guinevere

Essie Encrusted Treasure Collection Haul & Swatches

Today I found this - almost untouched - display of essie's latest LE - Encrusted Treasure. :)

The key polish of this collection definitely is "Belugaria" Sadly, this polish is one big fat falilure.. And that happens rarely when it comes to essie polishes. Some evidence.

In theory, this could be awesome, but it's just a bumpy, weird mess. So unflattering..

The only time I saw the shiny particles -> when removing the polish:

 Let's move one, the others are definitely better. *gg*

"Ignite the Night" - three coats, not unique, but not bad either.

"Lots of Lux" the polish that stood out the most. I would have bought it if I didn't have one that looks almost the same. 

"Peak of Chic" didn't convince me in the bottle, so I only tried one coat. It's one of these top coats that will need tons of layers to ever get opaque..

"Hors D'oeuvres" is a nice silver/gold shimmer with hex glitters in it.

"On a silver platter" is the shade I bought, I don't have a swatch of it - yet. I will do a nice manicure with it and show it to you tomorrow.

I tried it in the store as well and found it super pretty, so I gave it a new home. 

Seen the LE in stores already? What do you think of "Belugaria"??

Love,

Guinevere

Essie Luxeffects

Heylo my lovely readers,

(all the people who watch The Big Bang Theory know what to do with "Heylo") *gg*

Some stuff is going on on the Essie polish front, but before we talk about their new collection I need to show you two beauties I got. The essie luxeffects.

a cut above, set in stones

set in stones

a cut above

Let's go on to some swatches, for now I only have swatches from "a cut above". On its own and as a topcoat:

The middle finger has four coats of "a cut above" without anything else, the others have two coats of "a cut above"  with a nice rose tone underneath

I'll do swatches from the other polish, soon. I'm still not sure which base polish makes it the prettiest.

Love,

Guinevere

Essie Winter Collection 2013, the second!

Remember when I first talked about Essie's new Winter collection? You can see it here including swatches of "Parka Perfect".

I couldn't resist buying two more when seeing the LE in store.

"toggle to the top", "sable collar"

"Toggle to the top" such a beautiful glittery shade

"Sable Collar" is quite an unique shade which is tough to capture. It's described as pearly plum.

Swatches will follow soon. :-)

Love,
Guinevere

Essie Winter Collection 2013

It's that time of year already. Winter is coming, can you believe it. It's crazy. Essie is releasing their Winter Collection soon and gives us once more a lovely palette of colours to choose from. Here they are:

shearling darling — noble mahagony red

mind your mittens — dark, diamond blue-green

parka perfect — adorable cashmere grey

sable collar — pearly plum 

warm & toasty turtleneck — angora pink

toggle to the top — glitter garnet red

I had the pleasure to test the beautiful  "Parka Perfect". It's the ideal winter shade:

Let's look at some swatches:

I absolutely love it. It has subtle white shiny partcicles in it you can see when the sun hits it. I wore it 4 days which is years in nail polish wear for me. *g*

I can't wait to see the other colours when they are released in the middle of November. I'm pretty sure "toggle to the top" will come home with me. :)

Love,

Guinevere

PR-Sample

Drugstore Releases in October

We're still without internet, the death for a blogger.. Without our mobile phones that function as hotspots, we'd be completely in the dark.

Some new drugstore collections have been released and I thought why not share them with you :-)

Essence did something horrible. A Justin Bieber LE, how could they.. Well, most teenagers might disagree..

Sorry for the blurriness.. The other LE isn't bad at all.

Next up is Catrice:

I was really tempted, but stayed strong. :)

Essie released their luxeffect and reptile colours.

Did you buy anything? Since I bought quite a lot from MAC's Riri LE, I didn't get anything.

Love,
Guinevere

Essie Fall Collection Swatches

You've probably seen swatches of this LE on tons of blogs, but here are mine. :-)

Cashmere Bathrobe:

the lace is on:

vested interest:

for the twill of it:

after school boy blazer:

All of them are flawless in terms of opacity and quality. Essie definitly is one of my favorite nail polish brands at the moment. What do you think of the collection? Love it as much as I do?

Love,
Guinevere