Hey everyone! Hope you're having a lovely weekend so far. The European Championships are on, which means I'm being roped into watching a lot of football with my boyfriend. Or alternatively, it means I have a lot more time to do nails because I don't want to sit and watch TV! I never watch football, but there's something about international football that's slightly more exciting, and I do end up getting sucked in even when I hate to.
Today I'm reviewing the Essie Spring 2016 collection*, I wanted to include this with my post about the Rankin event but I thought it would make the post too long. I've already shown the collection in this nail art, but I wanted to show the colours individually too. This is the first full Essie collection I've reviewed, and I hope it's not the last, but I was very impressed. I don't own many Essie shades, I don't have the need to buy many new polishes (as you can imagine) so apart from my trusty bottle of Essie - Beyond Cozy which I bought ages ago, I only have one or two others. This collection consists of some 'typical' spring shades, but also some darker shades that make the collections lightly unusual.
Off Tropic* is a lovely dark green. I've used this quite a few times now for leaves in floral designs, you will have seen it in this design for example. This was 2 easy coats, shown without topcoat. I think this is on the more 'unusual' side of things for a spring collection but I really like it
High Class Affair* is a lovely peach shade, which I used as the base for these nails. This was 2 easy coats, shown without topcoat
Lounge Lover* is a great bright summery/spring pink. This was 2 easy coats, shown without topcoat
Shades On* is another darker shade in the collection, usually spring collections would contain a lilac so I love that this is slightly different. This was 2 easy coats, shown without topcoat
Sunshine State Of Mind* is a gorgeous bright orange/dark coral shade. This was 2 coats, which were slightly difficult to apply but evened out. Shown without topcoat
Pool Side Service* is another dark shade, but again I really like it. This was just 1 coat, it was very opaque! Dried incredibly fast too. Shown without topcoat
What do you think? Do you own any of the collection? Let me know in the comments!
Alice
*some of the products in this post were provided to me for review, all opinions are entirely my own and were not influenced in any way
Essie Spring 2016 Collection Review + Swatches
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