Essie Borrowed and Blue

I think Essie is one of my favorite brands. Yes, most of their colors are reds and pinks but whenever they do blues and greens they make sure to do them right. Most safe brands I usually criticize but for some reason I have a softer point of view for Essie. Maybe it's their bottle shape. I really love the Essie bottle. 

Anyways, Essie Borrowed and Blue is a pale, light blue creme nail polish. It only takes two coats to achieve an opaque color. The formula is great and smooth. It is a very light blue. My love for nail art also created my love for cremes. This polish served as an excellent color for the base of my Instagram nail art. It's great to use to create designs.

All photos are under artificial lighting. I just purchased supplies to create my own lightbox. :)

What's your favorite brand of nail polish? I know my posts have been very brief lately, I'll try to work on that. I have a passion for lacquer and nail art. Unfortunately, I don't have much of a passion for writing. Again, I'll do my best to provide better writing in the future. Is anyone else very tired and looking for the weekend? Here's hoping it comes soon! 

On To The Next Polish,

Katie

Essie Mojito Madness

This past week I had the nail art equivalent of writer's block. Perhaps I should call it nails' block? Anyways, I had tried to plan out nail art ideas and I just couldn't get myself to do any of them. This happens to me sometimes and I absolutely hate the feeling.

While stuck in my "nails' block" I wore Essie Mojito Madness. It's a gorgeous green creme but perhaps a little uninspiring for me. I wore it for about a week left untouched. There isn't anything wrong with that but for me it felt weird. Interesting story: when I don't wear nail art two random strangers compliment my polish. One even said "Huh, I never thought about green nail polish." What? Admittedly, I'm stuck in this Nail World and I have trouble relating to people on the outside.

Essie Mojito Madness is a medium toned green polish. It seems a little dusty in my opinion. It was extremely pigmented. I hardly needed a second coat. Though as of habit I applied three coats. Application was a breeze and the polish applied smoothly. It's a great color especially for summer. Or if you had not thought about green nail polish.

All photos are under artificial lighting. Guess who just figured out how to set the exposure compensation on their camera? Please don't judge me. Though I've got to get/make a lightbox. You can make fun of me for that.

Tomorrow I will be showing a comic book related nail art design that I finally was able to create after my nails' block broke. I'd love to know any stories about your nails' block as I'm calling it or what non-polish people say/do that surprise you. Have a great day!

On To The Next Polish,

Katie

Ombre Manicure

Hi! Today I have an ombre manicure to show you. Unfortunately these pictures are not the best quality.

I used Essie Borrowed & Blue and OPI Last Friday Night. Essie Borrowed & Blue is from their 2011 Wedding collection. It is nice to see a company produce a wedding collection that is not just pale sheer colors. OPI Last Friday Night is from the Katy Perry collection released this year.

Essie Borrowed & Blue is a very light blue. It is similar to Hard Candy Sky (from Walmart) except that the Essie is a creme while Sky has slight shimmer. Essie Borrowed & Blue applies great becoming opaque in two coats.

OPI Last Friday Night is very sheer. However, it is a great blue glitter with round glitter prismatic pieces. 

It looks great layered and good own its own. Confetti, available at CVS, has a blue very similar to this called Party Palace Blue. It might even be a dupe and at $1.99 the price is much lower than the OPI. 

I created this manicure by applying Last Friday Night first about halfway on my nails. Then I applied another coat of it further upward on my nail. I continued this process until I had the color I wanted on my tips. It is very easy to do and looks great. All you need is a base color and a sheer glitter. You can use matching colors for the glitter and base or switch it up. I'm going to try it with pink next.

Thanks for stopping by!