Essie Wedding 2011

I feel like a lot of weddings are happening this summer! A lot of my friends have tons of weddings to attend, and my fiance’s cousin is getting married this July, which I will attend. So I felt it was appropriate to post about a wedding collection 🙂 I always feel like Essie does great neutral, wedding-appropriate colors.

I ordered their mini box set. Isn’t it the cutest?! It has blocks around, with the colors of the collection.

From left to right: First Dance, Made to Honor, Borrowed & Blue, Better Together.

Two of the neutral polishes (the beige and pink) are very sheer and nothing will get them opaque. They’re ideal for the french manicures that we see so often on brides.
For the sheer ones, I’m going to show a two coat and a three coat to give you an idea of the color build up.
Two of the other colors are bolder and opaque in two coats (except the red) and would make for fun, coordinating pedicure colors (or on your hands- whatever!)

First Dance is a cool red. Everyone needs a classic red in their collection, and this could be it. At three coats, the nail line is still visible so I would think this is best for the toes, or nicely manicured short nails. OR for the people that don’t care about VNL! 🙂

Made to Honor at two coats. This is a lovely beige, personally in my opinion this is the polish color that Chanel Beige Petale wanted to be- this is clearly a much better choice for a sheer beige polish! You could put on one coat to give your nails a fresh and shiny look, but retain the natural look.

Three coats. I’m not sure if I like this better at three coats, or at two like shown earlier.

Borrowed and Blue. Two coats. LOVELY pastel baby blue. I love the name too 🙂 As most pastels go, the first coat tends to be streaky. This was kind of true, and the second coat smoothed everything and it all became perfect.

I love love love this polish! Seriously. I have worn it twice! It’s such a flattering baby blue, I feel like this color will look good on all skin tones.

Better Together, two coats. What a romantic name 🙂 It’s a light sheer pink.

I definitely prefer the three coats version.

Essie Wedding 2011

I feel like a lot of weddings are happening this summer! A lot of my friends have tons of weddings to attend, and my fiance’s cousin is getting married this July, which I will attend. So I felt it was appropriate to post about a wedding collection 🙂 I always feel like Essie does great neutral, wedding-appropriate colors.

I ordered their mini box set. Isn’t it the cutest?! It has blocks around, with the colors of the collection.

From left to right: First Dance, Made to Honor, Borrowed & Blue, Better Together.

Two of the neutral polishes (the beige and pink) are very sheer and nothing will get them opaque. They’re ideal for the french manicures that we see so often on brides.
For the sheer ones, I’m going to show a two coat and a three coat to give you an idea of the color build up.
Two of the other colors are bolder and opaque in two coats (except the red) and would make for fun, coordinating pedicure colors (or on your hands- whatever!)

First Dance is a cool red. Everyone needs a classic red in their collection, and this could be it. At three coats, the nail line is still visible so I would think this is best for the toes, or nicely manicured short nails. OR for the people that don’t care about VNL! 🙂

Made to Honor at two coats. This is a lovely beige, personally in my opinion this is the polish color that Chanel Beige Petale wanted to be- this is clearly a much better choice for a sheer beige polish! You could put on one coat to give your nails a fresh and shiny look, but retain the natural look.

Three coats. I’m not sure if I like this better at three coats, or at two like shown earlier.

Borrowed and Blue. Two coats. LOVELY pastel baby blue. I love the name too 🙂 As most pastels go, the first coat tends to be streaky. This was kind of true, and the second coat smoothed everything and it all became perfect.

I love love love this polish! Seriously. I have worn it twice! It’s such a flattering baby blue, I feel like this color will look good on all skin tones.

Better Together, two coats. What a romantic name 🙂 It’s a light sheer pink.

I definitely prefer the three coats version.

Zoya Touch

Zoya usually releases bright, flashy colors. Sometimes too flashy- where would we be able to use that in the professional world? But this summer they released a three piece of work-appropriate, professional neutrals! They call these polishes as neutral but with a “metallic kiss”. It actually just looks like shimmer to me, and a pearl finish.

I love the box it came in! 🙂

The formula was especially fantastic for all three, and they are definitely neutral polishes that everyone needs to have in their stash! Zoya released three types of nudes to ensure that these shades can suit various skin colors, so everyone definitely needs one. 🙂 They are meant to be dense and opaque, but I achieved full opacity with three coats.
I hear a lot of other bloggers achieved this coverage with two, so maybe my definition of coat thickness is different. I do pretty thin coats because if I do thicker ones then I’ll end up with cuticle drag and pooling.

Pandora. This is a cool, light mauve. This is my second favorite 🙂

Detail of the gold shimmer and the finish.

Minka. She’s a strong yellow toned beige nude. It’ll suit people with yellow/green undertones.

Detail. I know, I fudged the application a bit 😐

Shay. She’s a peachy warm beige, very sandy. She is also my match, and there needs to be songs written about our compatibility.

I’m actually craving to wear this one again!!

Zoya Touch

Zoya usually releases bright, flashy colors. Sometimes too flashy- where would we be able to use that in the professional world? But this summer they released a three piece of work-appropriate, professional neutrals! They call these polishes as neutral but with a “metallic kiss”. It actually just looks like shimmer to me, and a pearl finish.

I love the box it came in! 🙂

The formula was especially fantastic for all three, and they are definitely neutral polishes that everyone needs to have in their stash! Zoya released three types of nudes to ensure that these shades can suit various skin colors, so everyone definitely needs one. 🙂 They are meant to be dense and opaque, but I achieved full opacity with three coats.
I hear a lot of other bloggers achieved this coverage with two, so maybe my definition of coat thickness is different. I do pretty thin coats because if I do thicker ones then I’ll end up with cuticle drag and pooling.

Pandora. This is a cool, light mauve. This is my second favorite 🙂

Detail of the gold shimmer and the finish.

Minka. She’s a strong yellow toned beige nude. It’ll suit people with yellow/green undertones.

Detail. I know, I fudged the application a bit 😐

Shay. She’s a peachy warm beige, very sandy. She is also my match, and there needs to be songs written about our compatibility.

I’m actually craving to wear this one again!!

OPI Spark de Triomphe

OMG I love this glitter!! I wore it by itself, a whole THREE layers of glitter. Surprisingly, it was not that nasty to remove. 😉

Spark de Triomphe is a white gold glitter, in hexagonal and round shapes, suspended in a clear base. It’s an incredibly dense glitter. Most glitter do not achieve full coverage after three layers, but this one could. In my close up pics you can still see through my nails but the bling more than makes up for it!

So lovely *.* Everyone needs to own one!

Spark de Triomphe is part of another duo released by Selena Williams by OPI, it’s supposed to be partnered with White Shatter but I just love this by itself!

OPI Spark de Triomphe

OMG I love this glitter!! I wore it by itself, a whole THREE layers of glitter. Surprisingly, it was not that nasty to remove. 😉

Spark de Triomphe is a white gold glitter, in hexagonal and round shapes, suspended in a clear base. It’s an incredibly dense glitter. Most glitter do not achieve full coverage after three layers, but this one could. In my close up pics you can still see through my nails but the bling more than makes up for it!

So lovely *.* Everyone needs to own one!

Spark de Triomphe is part of another duo released by Selena Williams by OPI, it’s supposed to be partnered with White Shatter but I just love this by itself!

Revlon Just Tinted

Revlon released a line of four extremely sheer, berry-colored jelly polishes that pretty much “stain” your nails. They call it a “tint” though. It comes with four matching lip stain/balm combo collections called “Bitten”. This entire shebang has a very Twilight theme, and it doesn’t help that Jessica Biel does this commercial for Revlon’s lip stains, where she looks at the camera and says, seductively(!) “Have you been Bitten?” right after making out with a smoking hot guy that looks suspiciously like Edward.

SO! I found this line interesting, albeit not for me. I had to slap on fake nails because my real nails are STAINED and just looks gross under sheer polish. Thanks random green polish I tried on a few weeks ago. Ugh!

All the polishes are at two coats, but I’ve demonstrated some at one coat just for sake of research. They dry to a very satiny finish, definitely soaking into your nails. I really had application issues, it’s hard to even out sheer polishes and jelly polishes and when you combine the two… well.. I tried my best! It definitely builds color the more coats you go.
If the “stained”/matte finish is not for you, well, luckily Revlon also released a special shiny topcoat that gives them this wet luster that’s pretty attractive.

Let’s start with the finish. This is Victorian, at one coat and dry.

You can see the “tinted” effect Revlon was talking about.

This is at two coats. Victorian is a berry pink- between purple and pink.

It does kind of look nice with my skin tone. Too bad these aren’t my real nails! LOL.

With the topcoat. You can see the juicy finish that’s happening.

Looks wet! I’d be afraid to touch them for days 😉

Mystical is a dark berry– I’d say it looks grape.


The topcoat definitely lightened this color up some.

Desire is a bright pink.

I liked this one a lot.

Desire with topcoat

I can’t get over the juiciness! It’s just an interesting finish. Jelly polishes are usually wet looking or “shiny” but this topcoat takes it a bit differently.

Dawn is the most different from everyone– it’s a peach!


With topcoat. I love it, it looks like a tangerine color.

Revlon Just Tinted

Revlon released a line of four extremely sheer, berry-colored jelly polishes that pretty much “stain” your nails. They call it a “tint” though. It comes with four matching lip stain/balm combo collections called “Bitten”. This entire shebang has a very Twilight theme, and it doesn’t help that Jessica Biel does this commercial for Revlon’s lip stains, where she looks at the camera and says, seductively(!) “Have you been Bitten?” right after making out with a smoking hot guy that looks suspiciously like Edward.

SO! I found this line interesting, albeit not for me. I had to slap on fake nails because my real nails are STAINED and just looks gross under sheer polish. Thanks random green polish I tried on a few weeks ago. Ugh!

All the polishes are at two coats, but I’ve demonstrated some at one coat just for sake of research. They dry to a very satiny finish, definitely soaking into your nails. I really had application issues, it’s hard to even out sheer polishes and jelly polishes and when you combine the two… well.. I tried my best! It definitely builds color the more coats you go.
If the “stained”/matte finish is not for you, well, luckily Revlon also released a special shiny topcoat that gives them this wet luster that’s pretty attractive.

Let’s start with the finish. This is Victorian, at one coat and dry.

You can see the “tinted” effect Revlon was talking about.

This is at two coats. Victorian is a berry pink- between purple and pink.

It does kind of look nice with my skin tone. Too bad these aren’t my real nails! LOL.

With the topcoat. You can see the juicy finish that’s happening.

Looks wet! I’d be afraid to touch them for days 😉

Mystical is a dark berry– I’d say it looks grape.


The topcoat definitely lightened this color up some.

Desire is a bright pink.

I liked this one a lot.

Desire with topcoat

I can’t get over the juiciness! It’s just an interesting finish. Jelly polishes are usually wet looking or “shiny” but this topcoat takes it a bit differently.

Dawn is the most different from everyone– it’s a peach!


With topcoat. I love it, it looks like a tangerine color.

Essie Braziliant

Hi guys, I have here for you Essie’s Summer 2011 collection, the counterpart to their Resort 2011 collection recently. This is a six piece collection featuring really hot colors– and I mean they are hot! 😉 Most of them have hidden shimmers, and FOUR polishes are in the red-coral-pink family! I guess I’m okay with that because… Great pedicure colors. That said, I need to do my toenails sometime soon. I’ve been so lazy about it- they have been naked for about a month!

Before we start, let me tell you- my camera hates bright colors, so the pics are a bit crazy but they’re color accurate for the most part, at least on my monitor.

Formula was flawless, a la Essie. Two coats for all. Great names!

First up is Super Bossa Nova. It’s a hot pink with a great shimmer.

Smooth Sailing. The love of many nail bloggers. As you can see mine bubbled a bit, but that may just have been due to rough handling. Yes, I said rough handling. My bottles get dropped a lot and jostled around.

This is lovely, though. These two pictures above pull a tad too blue. It’s a perfect periwinkle, I think, with light blue flecks running through.

Too Too Hot. OMG My camera hated this! It’s a hot red creme. I like to put the crazy colors on my toes because everything looks good down there! (What she said LOL)

Meet Me At Sunset. What’s up? Burnt orange creme. Or is that called burnt sienna??

THIS is the most color accurate.

Absolutely Shore. Pale seafoam green. The bottle I had was a streak fest =\

I need to revisit this one and see if I love it. So far it looks like a leave it.

Finally, the namesake of the collection! Braziliant is one I really like, too. It’s a hot orange with a great shimmer.

Check out that awesome shimmer 🙂

What did you guys think? Will you be grabbing any? Or leaving it? I saw these at Target!

Essie Braziliant

Hi guys, I have here for you Essie’s Summer 2011 collection, the counterpart to their Resort 2011 collection recently. This is a six piece collection featuring really hot colors– and I mean they are hot! 😉 Most of them have hidden shimmers, and FOUR polishes are in the red-coral-pink family! I guess I’m okay with that because… Great pedicure colors. That said, I need to do my toenails sometime soon. I’ve been so lazy about it- they have been naked for about a month!

Before we start, let me tell you- my camera hates bright colors, so the pics are a bit crazy but they’re color accurate for the most part, at least on my monitor.

Formula was flawless, a la Essie. Two coats for all. Great names!

First up is Super Bossa Nova. It’s a hot pink with a great shimmer.

Smooth Sailing. The love of many nail bloggers. As you can see mine bubbled a bit, but that may just have been due to rough handling. Yes, I said rough handling. My bottles get dropped a lot and jostled around.

This is lovely, though. These two pictures above pull a tad too blue. It’s a perfect periwinkle, I think, with light blue flecks running through.

Too Too Hot. OMG My camera hated this! It’s a hot red creme. I like to put the crazy colors on my toes because everything looks good down there! (What she said LOL)

Meet Me At Sunset. What’s up? Burnt orange creme. Or is that called burnt sienna??

THIS is the most color accurate.

Absolutely Shore. Pale seafoam green. The bottle I had was a streak fest =\

I need to revisit this one and see if I love it. So far it looks like a leave it.

Finally, the namesake of the collection! Braziliant is one I really like, too. It’s a hot orange with a great shimmer.

Check out that awesome shimmer 🙂

What did you guys think? Will you be grabbing any? Or leaving it? I saw these at Target!