Essie, Day 2

Ha, I did it!  Two days in a row!  Today I have two more Essie polishes for your viewing pleasure.  these are really great colors and I think you are going to like them!

Sexy Divide is a shimmering purple.  It's a little smokey and has a lit from with in feel to it. 

Dive Bar was a bit of a pain for me to really capture how amazing it really is in true life.  This is a blackened turquoise shimmer.  It is gorgeous and I highly recommend finding this bad boy for your collection!

Essie

Hello Nail'd & Polish'd readers!  I am not going to bore you with excuses or apologies, just blog about some beautiful Essie nail polishes :)

The three polishes I have today I swatched months and months ago.  They are Essie, so the application and wear was exceptional.  The creme colors are beautiful and if you can find them, they are the perfect shades to ease you back into to the amazing dark fall colors I am seeing for the Fall collections! 

School of Hard Rocks is a dark sage green creme.

Size Matters is a beautiful cranberry creme.



Bobbing for Baubles is a dark charcoal blue creme.

Thank for looking!

Essie~Resort 2011

Today I have 2 polishes from the 2011 Resort Colletion from Essie.  This is a collection of 4 colors that are okay.  They aren't anything great and that is why I only have 2 :)

 Da Bush is a muted sage green creem.

Fair Game is a blue grey shimmer, almost a frost. 

Essie~Nice is Nice & Coat Azure

Spring 2011 is in full force and the polish collections are gorgeous!  French Affair by Essie is a beautiful collection of soft, classy colors that do not disappoint.  There are 6 colors in French Affair and today, I have two to share with you.  Nice is Nice and Coat Azure are perfect for Spring and would make great addititions to everyones polish collections.

Nice is Nice is a soft pale lilac creme.  It went on smooth and covered completely with the second coat. 

(sorry about the fuzz in the polish on my first nail-didn't notice it when I was swatching)

Coat Azure, how beautiful is this one?  A bright blue with just a touch of shimmer.  Beautiful!

The other 4 colors are neutrals and a pale pink.  All six are well worth the hunt :)

Essie~Winter 2010/2011

With all the buzz about Spring Collections popping up here and there, I thought I'd better get this amazing Winter Collection up for you to check out.  Essie's Winter 2010/2011 is made up of 6 beautiful creme polishes.  I have 4 to share with you.  I found these pretties at Ulta.

Hot Coco is just that.  It is the color of a warm cup of hot chocolate.

Smokin' Hot is a beautiful dusty grey-lavender-mushroom creme.  It is a bit darker on the nail than in this picture.

Masquerade Belle is a great dark warm red creme.

Luxedo is the favorite amoung this collection for me.  It is a black-purple jelly!  Absolutely gorgeous!

Essie~Fall 2010

Happy Wednesday everyone!  This is the last of the Fall 2010 polish collections that I have to share with you.  It may still be fall, but there is snow 30 miles up the road from my house and it is 38 degrees outside today-that is winter behavior, lol.  Essie has stepped out of the box in the last year and offered some amazing colors!  Their Fall collection is no exception.  I have 4 of the 6 colors, Merino Cool, Sew Psyched, Limited Addiction, and Little Brown Dress.

Merino Cool is a beautiful muted lavendar-taupe creme. 

Sew Psyched suprised me.  I didn't care for it much in the bottle, but I love it on my nails!  It is a sage green with just a touch of shimmery pearl.

Limited Addiction is a great brick red creme.

Little Brown Dress is a dark, dark brown creme. 

Essie~Resort Collection

I have some beautiful colors for you guys today!  When I saw these babies, I knew I had to have all 4.  The Essie Resort Collection is my favorite, so far, of the summer collections that I have seen.  I decided to just get the mini sizes in the super cute cube.  But I am sure eventually, I'll get the full sized bottles too!

Playa del Platinum is light grey-taupe creme.

Turquoise and Caicos is a beautiful light turquoise.  I would say it is a jelly!  This is 2 coats, no top coat. 

Splash of Grenadine is a purpley rosey creme.

Lapis of Luxury is my favorite.  It is a gorgeous cornflower blue.  I would call this a jelly also!

All four of these are beautiful and say get them all!  Transdesign has them in stock and I am sure your other favorite e-tailer or retailers will have them too!

Essie~Art of Spring

Today I have 2 beautiful colors from the Essie Art of Spring 2010 collection.  Lilacism and Red Nouveau are two must haves of the season.  Lilacism is a stunning pale lilac creme.  It went on effortlessly with no streaking and wasn't chalky at all.

Red Nouveau is a warm red creme, perfect for Springtime toes!

Essie~Cherry Bomb

I went to the movies this weekend and saw the Runaways. What a great movie!  Joan Jett was my first favorite rock musician.  I think I Love Rock n' Roll was one of the first videos I ever saw on MTV and I loved it!  Eventually I discovered the Runaways and well, here is Cherry Bomb by the Runaways and by Essie.

Cherry Bomb is a beautiful cherry red creme.

Red-Essie

This week I am dedicating to my favorite color, red.  Red may be my favorite color, but I am not a fan of it on my finger nails.  I love it on my toes, though.  I love the way it looks on everyone else, but I just get sick of it really quickly when I am wearing it.

Essie has some great reds.  Fishnet Stockings is a red creme, slightly falling into the dark red catagory.

Essie~Fishnet Stockings, inside with a flash

Cherry Bomb is a perfect name and description for this color.  It is a bright red creme.

Essie~Cherry Bomb

I can't believe I am going to show you my toes, but you have to see the chemical reaction that occured the other night when I polished them.  I used one coat of Essie, Plumberry and topped it with Zoya, Astra.  I used Seche Vite top coat and Nail Tek 10-Speed qiuck dry drops.  The Seche Vite and quick dry drops did NOT play nice.  Check this out~

Crazy, huh!

Mix It Up Monday!

I've been thinking I might want to step outside of the box every now and then and bring you something non-nail related.  If you are anything like me, you love make-up and jewelry too!  I wanted to share a necklace that I just got from Silver Dog Jewelry on Etsy.  The talented Erin was nice enough to custom make me a beautiful necklace with a "dark red peony, faceted glass hand tied with brass wire and brass chain".  She really has some beautiful and unique pieces and her customer service was flawless.  In less that 24 hours, she changed the color of the beads, posted pictures for me and I bought it!  I can't believe it got all the way from South Carolina to California in 2 days!  I love it and had to share this beautiful Etsy find!  Check out her shop, she's got lots of goodies!

And since I don't want to deprive you of your nail polish, I have Essie Over the Top.

Over the Top is a shimmery gun metal grey with fine silver, grey, and blue glitter.  It's a great color.  I, on the other hand, am having issues with Essie and Nail Tek 10-speed drops.  They don't play nice together.  Just a little FYI.

Essie~Mink Muffs

I have the one and only Essie color I liked out of their Fall 2009 collection.  It is Mink Muffs.

Mink Muffs is a creme dark taupe.  I had drying issues with this bottle-dents

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I have a couple of pinks for you today.  OPI~Pink Hearts 2009 and Essie~Yes We Can-Pink!.  OPI is donating to Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Rethink Breast Cancer and Essie is donating to Living Beyond Breast Cancer.  I don't want to run the risk of misquoting or passing along incorrect breast cancer information, so I have a couple of websites that I feel are great resources for you ladies:
BREASTCANCER.ORG
Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Army of Women
Feel Your Boobies
Save the Tatas
These are all great sites and just slice of the information out there. 

OPI~Pink of Hearts 2009 is a light pink, I saw it descibed somewhere as "cherry blossom pink" and that is what I would call it .  Not as pasty as I thought it was going to be. 

Essie~Yes We Can-Pink! is a very sheer baby pink. 

I really like both of these colors and while they are not colors I would typically wear a lot, they are for a great cause!