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Um yeah, I am way late to the party on this collection, but am showing it anyway.

Essie’s new summer collection is made up of 6 new colors, and something you don’t really ever see from them…a GREEN polish! Now I know this is kind of mind blowing because we are so used to the fairly tame pinks, red and oranges with an occasional blue or dark vampy color tossed in. But I can’t remember a green from them ever, at least not in my nail polish collecting lifetime.

The formula on these was really quite good. Most were just two coats and I had no issues to speak of.

Miss Matched

Miss Matched is a very pale ballerina pink. This is on the sheer side, but did even out pretty decently after three coats. It’s super shiny! I went into applying this thinking “boring”, but I totally changed my mind after the three coats. I really like it on me! I mean I don’t know when I would ever wear it, but if ever I am in a very conservative mood or want something nude & shiny I would totally wear this.

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Happy Monday folks!

Today I’ve got Essie’s new collection for summer called Resort. It’s comprised of four fabulous creme colors that are not the usual reds or pinks, yahoo!

The formula on these was pretty darn nice. I didn’t have any stickiness or thickness like I thought I might. They were mostly two coaters also!

Peep ‘em!

Playa Del Platinum

Playa Del Platinum is a light taupe/concrete color. I do really like this color although it’s my least favorite of this collection. It us unique to other similar taupe colors we have recently seen, but I think I might be getting bored of those! This was the most sheer one of the bunch so I used three coats.

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Hey there world!

Off to a late start this morning, but all is well because I have Essie’s new collection for you called The Art of Spring.

So when I first saw promo pics of this I was rather unimpressed. The only one that caught my eye was Lilacism, I thought the rest looked like very boring colors. I am happy to say I actually really liked a few of them more than I thought I would.

The formula on these was all over the place. They went from sheer to thick and streaky to perfect like butter. More details below.

Pop Art Pink

Pop Art Pink is a very pale milky white pink. This was extremely sheer and I needed three coats. Also it’s a bit runny, so wait 3 minutes at least in between coats or it will get weird on you. I like this one actually, but feel I’ve seen it before from Essie.

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Hallo there!

Essie’s got a cute new collection of three polishes for winter 2009 that I’ve got for ya.

These are all new colors, and though you might not immediately think of them as “winter” colors, they really fit right in with the season in in my eyes.

The formula on these is pretty great, as Essie’s tend to be. One of them was a wee bit on the thick side, but didn’t cause me any troubles. More on that later. Peep ‘em out!

Rock Candy

Rock Candy is a super sheer pink. This is REALLY sheer, it almost looks like just a top coat on my nails. Great if you just want something clean, and shiny looking. This was two coats.

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Essie has created a mini polish set exclusively for Nordstrom and fall 2009. There are four colors in this collection, which are all really nice, however I’m not sure anything is totally *original*.

The same day that I received these, I also received Essie’s new Matte About You top coat. I decided that it would be the perfect time to swatch these along with the matte top coat to give you an idea of what it can do. Check ‘em out.

Angora Cardi

Angora Cardi is a raisin colored mauve creme polish that screams “fall” to me. It’s very pretty and flattering and I wound up liking it on me a lot more than I thought I would. The application was great, though a little harder to apply because of the smaller brush. This was three coats.

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