Essence - Modern Romance

This is another nude! I've been into neutral shades lately and this is a beauty - a peachy pink with subtle pink to orange shimmer and a nice squishy texture. Wearing 3 coats, but it looks fantastic at 2, where it shows the nail line. It's slightly jellylike, but builds up in 3 coats. I love it!

So far, Essence polishes have been nothing but awesome - great duochromes, awesome price, unique colors - what's not to want? 

I like their other makeup, too (I'm looking at YOU, liquid eyeliner and lipglosses!) but this is a polish blog, so I digress.

I don't think I can ever get enough neutrals... I'm getting close to finding the perfect shade for my skin though. Thoughts on "nude with a flair" polishes?

Essence Grey to be here with neon chevron

Sorry about the blurry photos - my lighting was way off.

Here I'm using Essence Grey to be here (what a name, eh?) and China Glaze Flip Flip Fantasy for the chevron.I used tape to isolate the area, then painted the neon on top of base color. After that, topcoat and you're good to go!

The grey polish applies awesome - Essence polishes seem to have a wide, flat brush and applying color with it is fantastically easy, it dries fast and doesn't chip on me.

Essence Grey to be here is actually a really pretty color - it's a light warm grey with faint pink shimmer! It's a bit hard to see, but you can notice it at some angles. This gives the polish a very soft finish, which makes me love it more. It's a perfectly unassuming worksafe polish, hiding a little secret... I like that.

Essence - Chic Reloaded

I gotta admit - Essence has to be one of my favorite new polish brands I've started to find about drugstores. Not only do they start their short lineup with glitters, a pink and peachy nude, basic cremes and nice glitter, but also two duochromes!

I've had the pleasure of wearing Where's The Party? before and it's awesome! Since it did not disappoint, I went and got Chic Reloaded.

It's a much darker duochrome with a charcoal base, turqoise to purple duochrome shift and some scattered green glitters. The formula is a bit watery, but it works well with the big brush Essence uses. Dried nice and fast, wore strong for 3 days with no chipping and major tipwear. I'm extremely happy with this polish, especially since it only cost two dollars!

The color shift was notoriously difficult to capture - it is more evident in the bottle, but is still strong on the nail.

Where's the purple? Apparently doesn't show up with flash, but I hope this shows the texture of the polish well.