essie Gel Couture, Lace Is More

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Essie Gel Couture ‘Berry In Love’* – ‘a deep, dazzling plum red’. I wasn’t too excited by this until I got it on my nails, when it transformed from a fairly standard pinky-purple into a sumptuous shade of red-purple. This was another two coater. Essie ‘Lace Me Up’* – The palest of pale pink nudes, described as a ‘misty rose pink’. I had to do three coats to get rid of the streaks, which isn’t uncommon with very light colours. It’s slightly morepink-toned that these photos show and would suit pretty much everyone. Essie Gel Couture ‘Dress Is More’* – ‘a sheer creamy white dusted with pink’. I love these types of polishes as they just make you look instantly put together and chic. A milky, palest pink-beige that was ridiculously shiny even without top coat and looks lovely and plumped up. I did three fairly generous coats to get this coverage.

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Essie ‘Hold The Position’*– A very pretty takeon the ubiquitous coral-peach that’s everywhere in the summer months. ‘Hold The Position’ is a bit like that summery colour’s lighter-but-more-muted cousin and I’m feeling it! Only two coats were needed for non-streaky perfection. Which is your favourite shade from the Essie Gel Couture Ballet Nudes collection? Have you tried the Gel Couture formula? How do you think it compares to other ‘gel’ polish formulas? Let me know in the comments below! This is the first time that essie worked with a designer to come up with a bridal nail polish collection, and that honour goes toMonique Lhuillier who counts Emma Stone, Michelle Obama, and Blake Lively as celeb fans. I was so pleased when I opened this collection as I was initially worried it would all be sheer nudes, but there are some very exciting shades here as well as the traditional shades you would expect.Essie Gel Couture ‘Lace To The Alter’* – a ‘ soft elegant ivory sheer accented with iridescent pearls’. This is not at all my kind of colour (spam hands ahoy!) but I think it would make a really pretty nail varnish topper to give a bit of shimmer to your manicure. This was very sheer on application so I applied three coats to get this opacity. It’s a silver-blue toned white with fairly chunky glitter to really catch the light. Picture perfect and Hello world definitely have the most pronounced shimmer. Picture perfect was a bit difficult to apply though, and your best option might be to layer it over a white base coat or to combine it with another sheer. Essie Hello world is very pretty, but you must be into the pearl finish that it has. All of theEssie Gel Couture Ballet Nudes polishes are inspired by the pretty colours so often found in the ballet world: elegant pinks, soft greys and dreamy creams. Hello world is a bit streaky on the first coat, but you can definitely already wear it with two coats for a sheerer look. I’m wearing three in the picture. The only downside that I could think of is that you can see some brush strokes because of the shimmer.

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BUTYL ACETATE ETHYL ACETATE NITROCELLULOSE TOSYLAMIDE/EPOXY RESIN ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL ACETYL TRIBUTYL CITRATE DIPROPYLENE GLYCOL DIBENZOATE SUCROSE ACETATE ISOBUTYRATE STEARALKONIUM HECTORITE ACRYLATES COPOLYMER OCTOCRYLENE PROPYL ACETATE TRIBUTYL CITRATE I really like how healthy Vanity fairest makes my nails look. They look very healthy and glowy. I’m wearing three coats in the picture. With one coat it mainly gives a nice shine, but it looks already very pretty with two coats.

DIMETHICONE SYNTHETIC FLUORPHLOGOPITE CALCIUM SODIUM BOROSILICATE CALCIUM ALUMINUM BOROSILICATE BARIUM SULFATE SILICA CITRIC ACID OXIDIZED POLYETHYLENE BENZOPHENONE-1 COLOPHONIUM / ROSI TIN OXIDE ALUMINA MAGNESIUM SILICATE ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE ALCOHOL DENAT. ADIPIC ACID/NEOPENTYL GLYCOL/TRIMELLITIC ANHYDRIDE COPOLYMER HYDROGENATED ACETOPHENONE/OXYMETHYLENE COPOLYMER Lace is more looks like a sheer pink in the bottle, but on my nails, it leans white. It has a very subtle gold shimmer running through its base, which you only see if you look really close. I’m wearing three coats in the picture, it’s not completely opaque yet, but that’s how it’s supposed to be. It reminds me a lot of the finish that Essie Ballet slippers also has, it’s not quite sheer, but also not entirely opaque. With one coat, I found it to be too streaky, but you can definitely also wear it with only two coats if you want a sheerer look. This is Essie Hello world. If you’re thinking now that you never heard of this polish before, you might be right: this is a European-only shade. It’s probably the most spectacular out of these sheer Essie shades, but also the one that is the most opaque. Hello world contains a gorgeous iridescent shimmer that flashes from blue/green to pink/purple. It reminds me a lot of these loose unicorn powders that you can use for gel nail polish. From a distance, it kind of gives a pearly vibe, similar to Essie Pillow talk-the-talk or Essie Pretty in ink.