Essie - Armed and Ready

Interesting color. Brown, with an intense golden shimmer in the sunlight.

Pink and Green marble

 Yup, I'm still on the needle marble kick! I love how this turned out!

I've been using Zoya Snowsicle a lot lately. It's the perfect sparkly sheer ivory color! You can only catch glipses of it in this marbling, but i love it!

Yup, still loving the marbling thing!

Parade of Peacocks!

Index and Pinky: Spoiled - The Parking Meter Expired
Middle: Kleancolor - Retro Green
Ring: Essie - Dive Bar

 Kleancolor has the least shimmer. It's a really pretty blue-green that leans a lot green. No color shift or anything, but still a pretty sweet color. Consistency is just right.

 I love Dive Bar! This is the "walmart" version. It's a pretty blue-green shimmer with a very slight purple shift. It's a little thin which makes it a bit messy to apply.

I have to say the Spoiled is the real stunner here. It's a perfect peacock color. More pronounced purple shift to it. The consistency is a bit thick, but you could almost get away with using only one coat.

Verdict: None are dupes although the Essie and Spoiled are close.
If I had to get rid of one: This is a tough call. But, I'd have to say the Essie.

Essie - Smooth Sailing with Lippman Some Enchanted Evening

Smooth Sailing was really gorgeous all on its own. But I've been really into SEE for some reason lately. It's pink, but it seems to go with everything!

Look how gorgeous that is! It's got silvery glass flecking going on. It seems a lot more sparkly in the bottle than it appears in these pictures.

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Essie - Strange French

I'm not sure what was going on here! I picked up Essie's kisses and bises at CVS for $2.22. I told my husband, "If you see Essie for $2, you buy it!" But it's kind of sheer and weird...but yet still awesome! For some reason I thought some french tips in Sally Hansen's Kumquat would be cute. You be the judge?

Velvety!

Velvet Voyer

I can't remember what collection this is from, but it was hiding in my local beauty store's discount bin (hence the scribbles on the bottom). I picked it up. It looked interesting because it's really dark, but when you turn the bottle just...so, it's a dark fig purple.

Very interesting!

There, you can see the dark grape color.

I loved this, it was like wearing black nail polish...without the severity of wearing black nail polish. I don't find Essie to be an "exciting" brand, but when they do a good polish, it's really good.

Essie Spring Colors

Lilacism. Great color! Couldn't wait to get my hands on it, and I wasn't disappointed. Unfortunately for some reason, I only took this crappy indoor picture of it!

Van D'Go, is somewhere between pink and peachy. I normally feel weird in this type of color, but I liked this quite a bit. The first picture is indoor.

This is outside.

Happy Thanksgivng!

Today, I have some more "lost" files. These were taken over the summer, but I don't think I ever posted them. OPI - "Barefoot in Barcelona" my favorite nude EVER! This made my top 20. I love it!

This was Essie "Greenport" with Nfu-Oh "40" on the tips. I wasn't crazy about it for some reason, but now I think in the pictures it looks kinda neat.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving, filled with good food and good company. I am hosting my first Thanksgiving, and I'm a little nervouse about how things will turn out! My sister-in-law traditionally hosts Thanksgiving and she has set a very high standard!

What I've been wearing lately...

Metallic Illusions - "Heavenly Body" I am planning to post all the pictures I have on this later, but this was a fascinating polish to wear! I applied smooth and easy and wore really well.

Ignore the mess I mde on my thumb...Mystical Knights is one of those lovely Diamond Cosmetics polishes.

This is such a gorgeous, deep-steely blue. It's not navy, it's not grey, and it doesn't appear black in low light.

It's got a really silvery, pretty shimmer to it. It also wore very well and didn't leave me with smurf fingers when I took it off.

Essie "Damsel in a Dress" I have a hard time getting excited about Essie polishes. This was pretty, it wore well, it also has a sort of silver shimmer to it, bit it's a pretty standard plummy-burgandy color.

China Glaze "Short and Sassy" from the Retro collection. I loved this color, but then I forgot I had even worn it, until I found these photos on my camera. It's beautiful, but I guess it wasn't very exciting.

Essie "Mink Muffs". This is kind of neat. The formula was fantastic. The wear was very durable. I love the color, but it's also been done a few times by now.

No name Rusty, shimmery color by Goldie. I liked this. This is the first Goldie polish I have worn. The finish was really pretty and shimmery. I got a lot of compliments on this. It only held my attention for one day, so I can't speak to the durability of it.

Blue Creams

Misa "On the Edge", Essie "Mesmorize" Orly "Calypso Breeze", Essie "shelter island" and Essie "Greenport"

Ah...I remember a time when I didn't have any blue nail polish. What a sad, colorless life it was. Fortunately I have ramped up my little collection...