PolishFreak LookBook Series

Featuring Essie's Playa del Platinum from the Resort Collection...you know I had to do it, it's my fav color from that Collection...

Jet-Setting... by PolishFreak

Essie Resort Collection

I know I am late on this collection but it was released during my self-imposed 'no-buy'. But I had my eye on this collection since and I knew I wanted all the colors. So I just bought the mini box set last week and had a chance to swatch them this weekend...I'm so in love with ALL the colors! I feel as though Essie should have went with this collection as their featured summer collection. Maybe they could have just expanded on the Resort Theme and added two more colors. The other summer collection is so random and none of the colors really stand out, I wasn't impressed with it. But I was very impressed with this collection...I also find that I am starting to have a love/hate relationship with Essie's formula. Sometimes it can be a bit sheer and it takes three to four coats to reach the opaqueness that I like. However, this collection surprised me as all four colors were opaque in two coats and VERY pigmented!

Lapis of Luxury

Splash of Grenadine

Turquoise & Caicos

Playa del Platinum

This is actually my fav of the collection, sometimes it's the simplest colors that take my breath away. I'm having a love affair with taupes and 'greiges', as you may already know from my many posts on the greige trend, LOL...Love it!

Essie Lilacism

I'm in love...

 

A soft, gorgeous lavender...their typical creme formula, opaque in two coats...definitely the front runner of the Art of Spring Collection. When I ran into Ulta today to pick up some of OPI's Hong Kong Collection, I glanced over at the Essie section and this one was sold out. All the rest from the collection were there...what more can I say...

Essie Tart Deco

I LOVE you Essie!! But I'm NOT in love with this color...I thought I was going to love it but it's a little too bright and orangey for me. I usually love corals but for some reason I didn't really like this one against my skin tone. Maybe it's just me...maybe I'm just being weird. I do think its a pretty color, but I don't think it looks right on me. I think I will like Van D'Go more since it's a softer, more subtle coral. Maybe it will grow on me and I'll like it more in the late spring early summer...but for right now, its too happy for me...today I'm wearing RBL Stormy because that's the mood I'm in...so I'm definitely not there yet, LOL.

 

 

 The formula was pretty good...this was three coats, it was a little streaky at two....I'll post Lilacism tomorrow, I'm definitely in love with that color!

Wait...It's Still Winter Right??

Just checking, because in the polish world Spring is certainly in the air with the launch of collections like Essie's The Art of Spring and China Glaze's Up & Away...But it's not spring quite yet, so dark, vampy colors are still in, YES!! So I was digging through my collection when I noticed that Essie's Wicked and OPI's We'll Always Have Paris are very similar, so I decided to do a comparison....

Essie Wicked

OPI We'll Always Have Paris

So as you can see, two very similar colors. Both a dark, rich shade of red. "Wicked" is a very dark, almost black, red while "We'll Always Have Paris" is a dark red (slightly lighter than "Wicked"), that has visible undertones of pink. Both colors were easy to apply and opaque in two coats. Wicked was a little streaky at two coats, most likely my error, so I applied a third coat to even it out a bit. So when you do vampy do you go for reds, purples, browns??

Essie Steeling the Scene

This was one of the very first Essie polishes I bought and I still wear it often...actually I have been wearing it the last few days so I thought I should take some pics before I started doing my swatching today....

A molten silver-pewter polish that goes on like a dream. One of my favorite things about this polish is the way it goes on! I love polishes that just glide on the nail, it makes me want to keep painting. Because of that fact, I think this was three or four coats, but it really only needs two, I just love watching it go on...weird I know!! Oh well, *shrugs*