Beautiful Living: jelly

Thursday, 9 January 2014

Essence Ticket to Paradise - Sun Said Red Nail Polish Review

Hi guys. Today I have a review of one of the new jelly polishes Essence has released in their limited edition "Ticket to Paradise" collection. Sun Said Red is a bold tangerine orange jelly polish.

Despite being a jelly polish I didn't find it too sheer, after two coats it was pretty much perfect but I ended up doing three coats. Next time I'll probably just do two.A very easy formula to work with and dry time was okay but I recommend a quick drying top coat to be safe. After three coats I didn't want to risk getting orange polish on everything!!! The brush was good although it might be worth mentioning that it isn't Essence's usual wide brush. I think this is the first true jelly polish I own (how is that even possible???) and I am in LOVE!

So that is what happens when I run into Priceline to buy sunscreen... I end up buying nail polish :)
Have a great day, cheers.

Thursday, 1 November 2012

The Battle Nail Polish Battle #1 - Blue

Yay!!! It’s the first battle of the challenge and the first battle is blue vs. green.

For the first manicure of this battle I decided to use essence’s ‘blue addicted’. This polish can make a bold statement but I wanted to ‘tone it down’ a little so I just used one layer of ‘blue addicted’ over ‘date in the moonlight’ and it still looks great. ‘Blue addicted’ really is an amazing polish! It applies easily without the need to arrange the glitter, and dries quickly. Topcoat isn't required, it's naturally glossy :) If I had used more layers this manicure probably would have looked better but I wanted something subtle.....

Enough words, now for the pictures!