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Showing posts with label Essie As Gold As It Gets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Essie As Gold As It Gets. Show all posts

Monday, July 9, 2012

Nails Inc. New Burlington Place - Swatches and Review

As usual, I always seem to get back to Nails Inc. I'm obsessed with them lately!  The one I have for you today is SO gorgeous and so complex! New Burlington Place. The name comes from the area in Mayfair, City of Westminster, London and I wish I was there right NOW!

New Burlington Place is from Nails Inc.'s Midas Collection and I'm going to call it a duochrome, but I'm not entirely sure it's not a multichrome. It applied perfectly, like a creme! But it's full of glass flecks! It is a coppery/gold/autumn orange/rich berry red color. Well I'll just let you see for yourself. Two coats of color and one coat of Poshe top coat.


Nails Inc. New Burlington Place


Nails Inc. New Burlington Place

Nails Inc. New Burlington Place

Nails Inc. New Burlington Place

Nails Inc. New Burlington Place
Nails Inc. New Burlington Place

Nails Inc. New Burlington Place


Nails Inc. New Burlington Place

Nails Inc. New Burlington Place

Nails Inc. New Burlington Place

Nails Inc. New Burlington Place

Nails Inc. New Burlington Place

Nails Inc. New Burlington Place

Nails Inc. New Burlington Place

Nails Inc. New Burlington Place

Nails Inc. New Burlington Place



Well, didn't I TELL you?  Isn't it amazing?  Have you tried this one yet?  What's your favorite Nails Inc. polish? It would be perfect for Autumn. It also reminds me of MAC Bad Fairy, but I've only ever seen that in the bottle and in photos on the internet, so I could be way off.


Nails Inc. polishes are available in limited colors in the US at Sephora.com and a few other e-tailers. Unfortunately, the NailsInc.com site in the UK doesn't ship to the US...yet. Thankfully I have a few friends in the UK. =)




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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Essie Luxeffects As Gold As It Gets and Pure Pearlfection Swatches



Tonight I decided to try As Gold As It Gets and Pure Pearlfection over my current mani before I changed it up. I've already done a review and swatches of Shine of the Times here and I didn't pick up the other two in the Luxeffects collection because they're straight glitters.

My current mani is Revlon Naughty (the re-released Perplex) and you can see it is time to change it. First up is As Gold As It Gets. It's actually a flaky, which I couldn't tell when I bought it. Yay flakies! It has various sizes of flakes that shift from gold to copper in come lighting.

Essie Luxeffects As Good As It Gets

Essie Luxeffects As Good As It Gets

Essie Luxeffects As Good As It Gets

Essie Luxeffects As Good As It Gets

Essie Luxeffects As Good As It Gets
Pure Pearlfection is a white/silver sparkle, not sure if it's glass fleck or micro-glitter or micro-shimmer, in a clear base. I haven't read anything that mentions it yet, but it has a blue sparkle in it as well. I tried it in different lighting and different locations to make sure it wasn't a reflection and it's not. It sparkles blue. The blue comes across best in the last photo.

Essie Luxeffects Pure Pearlfection
Essie Luxeffects Pure Pearlfection

Essie Luxeffects Pure Pearlfection

Essie Luxeffects Pure Pearlfection

Essie Luxeffects Pure Pearlfection
I may try doing comparisons of some of the white sparkle polishes I have later. I have an OPI one and a couple of China Glaze ones, but I know none of them sparkle blue.

I did have just one "gold sparkle" polish that I've compared with As Gold As It Gets. They're not really alike though.

Orly Prisma Gloss Gold vs Essie As Gold As It Gets

Orly Prisma Gloss Gold

Orly on the left and Essie on the right

Orly, left and Essie, right
The Orly isn't a flaky like the Essie. And the Essie base is slightly milky rather than clear.  They're totally different.

So I have nothing like either one of these in my collection! Shine of the Times, however, is quite comparable to Nubar 2010...except it has more flakies than the Nubar.