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Essie Butler Please

Monday, February 18, 2013

Hi folks! I'm off to a wedding in Santa Barbara this weekend, so this is a scheduled post. I had my eye on Butler Please from the winter Essie collection for a while. I heard mumblings on Instragram that the formula was awful, but the blue was just so alluring! I had $4 in Extra Bucks and a $2 Essie coupon, so I took the $2.29 risk to find out if it was true.

Yes. It is. This is by far the worst polish formula I have ever used. It's opaque in two coats but I can't even describe how awful it to use. The first coat is ridiculously streaky and the second has to compensate by trying to fill in the bald spots. Gah. I haven't removed this manicure yet but I also hear that it stains.

For this manicure, I used Essie Butler Please as the base, sponged Sinful Colors Pearl Harbor on the tips and then used a tad bit of Innisfree 111.

What's the worst polish in terms of formula that you've ever used?

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Essie Armed And Ready (+ CND Copper Shimmer)

Saturday, December 15, 2012

There was once a polish called Estee Lauder Metallic Sage. I wanted (still do) more than you could believe. My friend Anneke over at Pinpoint Polish even tried to send me a bottle but unfortunately the NZ post confiscated it (curses!). When I recently saw Essie Armed and Ready I thought to myself, that looks pretty familiar. A dusty olive grey with copper shimmer? I'll bite. Plus I had a $5 reward to spend at CVS so Armed and Ready went home with me.

Bitter disappointment followed. Armed and Ready has some nice soft bronzey-copper shimmer in the bottle, I figured it would be quite subtle on the nail. It it almost invisible. I really have to look rather hard at it in order to see it. It's more grey than olive grey. This was two coats, the formula was pretty nice and fluid.

In the end, I put CND Copper Shimmer on top of it to spruce it up a bit. I like this much, much better.

Sigh. Estee Lauder Metallic Sage lemming- still not slayed :(

How about you? Do you have a long term lemming that just refuses to go away?

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Klout Perk: Essie Miss Fancy Pants Dotticure

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Hey folks! Just wanted to show you a few quick pictures of the Essie polish that I was sent as my free Klout Perk. Miss Fancy Pants is from the fall Essie Stylenomics Collection. Originally none of the shades from this collection particularly caught my attention, but now that I have it in my grubby little hands I like this shade quite a lot.

A thinner, fluid formula, I preferred three coats. A dusty greige creme, perhaps Essie's response to Chanel Frenzy this season? Work appropriate, I like that too. I used Orly Dayglow to create the dots.

Thanks for checking it out!

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Stamped: Essie Case Study & Sally Hansen Silver Sweep

Monday, August 13, 2012

Hey folks!

Here's an older manicure I did a few weeks ago. Normally, I don't like to have a whole bunch of nail posts in a row, but it's getting late and I am unprepared to show you anything else! I suck.

My base color here is Essie Case Study, a medium tan creme that I bought on clearance a long time ago. I stamped with Sally Hansen Insta Dri Silver Sweep, which is fantastic for stamping. The plate I used was BM 322, from the newest Bundle Monster set. Bundle Monster calls this the "2012" set, I refer to it as the 3-- series.

My beau Morgan, bought me this set of stamping plates as a present. Actually, he bought me the 2-- series set as well, last summer. I hereby claim to have a monopoly on awesome boyfriend material. I can't wait to play with more of the designs, I like these so much more than the 1-- series or the 2-- plates!

What's your favorite set of stamping plates? The new MASH ones? XL ones?

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