The new trend edition from Essence is on the horizon! It will be available on the shelves from December 2010 and it’s called Fairytale. As you can imagine this collection sparkles a lot In the collection there are as usual the nail polishes, eye shadows, lip glosses and eyeliners. I made some swaches of polishes, lip glosses and eyeliners I have to say that I really like the design on the packaging – fairies, butterflies and flowers.

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POLISHES: there are six polishes in this collection. Polishes are sparkling and they have shimmery foil-like finish. When I saw the promo picture I wasn’t exited about any shade. They just didn’t seem special but when I tried them on, I liked at least three of them. The formula is ok, I didn’t have any problems with application.

Fairy Berry: is a warm toned purple color with a lot of silver shimmer, which gives the polish that foil finish. Two coats are needed for full coverage. On the index finger is Essence Bubble Bubble from Into The Ocean TE.

Humpty Dumpty: this one is one of my favorites. It’s gray color with splash of purple and with loads of silver shimmer. I love it! It takes two coats for full coverage.

Once Upon A Time: this one is the only one that doesn’t have a foil-like finish. It’s medium red jelly base with red and gold glitter that give the polish a lot of depth. It’s similar to China Glaze Ruby Pumps but it’s not a dupe. It’s opaque in two coats.

Pixie Dust: nude color with hint of pink and a lot of silver shimmer. It’s nice, subtle polish which is opaque in three coats.

Tinka’s Dress: peachy orange color with silver shimmer. Another nice and soft shade which is opaque in three coats.

Welcome To The Wonderland: is a light lavender color with a lot of silver shimmer. I like this one on my nails. Needs three coats for full coverage.

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LIP GLOSSES: there are three lip glosses in Fairytale collection.
Fairy berry: light purple base with purple shimmer
Once Upon a time: red jelly color
Pixie Dust: clear base with multicolor shimmer

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And the last picture of Glitter eyeliners swatches:

Do you like anything from the Fairytale Trend Edition collection?
Have a nice time!

Lyra*

Essence

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Yesterday I felt so uninspired. I stared at all my polishes for about half an hour and not a single one looked interesting enough. This was my 3rd try to make something worth showing. At first I tried something with gold and black combination – didn’t work out, then I did some layering and it was no-no. After that I made another Konad failure. At the end I put on the Essence Zulu from Into The Wild collection and done the Konad with Barry M Vivid Purple and image plate m65. I still don’t like this manicure on my nails, but I guess it’s one of those days when there is no polish that will satisfy me.

Bye! -Lyra*

Barry M, Essence, Konad

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I can’t believe that Manhattan released an entire collection just for nails! The collection is called ”Spice Up Your Nails”. There are six different polishes (all creamy finish) in it and cool nail stickers. These are not just some boring classic colors that you can find everywhere. I have to admit – they did a god job! Well done Manhattan! The only thing missing is that they don’t have real names! I mean the numbers and letters doesn’t tell me anything. Polishes should have real names. Here is a group picture of all of them:

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46G: warm medium pink color with red undertone. Very pigmented, so it’s opaque in one coat!

55K: girly light pink shade. After two coats it was still a little bit streaky but third covers all imperfections.

77T: gorgeous royal dark blue color which is not almost black – as these types of colors usually are. This is also opaque in one coat. I really love this one.

96P: taupe with a hint of lavender. I heard that this one is dupe of Sephora By OPI Metro Chic, but I don’t have Metro Chic to make a comparison. It needs two coats for full coverage.

101S: dark gray with a hint of blue – so beautiful! And only one coat for coverage.

610K: dark purple color. It’s not too dark, so it’s still purple. Nice! Two coats for full coverage.

Metallic Chains Nail Stickers: metallic stickers that looks like chains. You can create modern, futuristic or edgy look. I didn’t try them out yet, maybe next time.

This is it! Do you like this collection as much as I do?

Bye! Lyra :*

Manhattan

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Today I have swaches of polishes, from another Essence Collection called ”We Saw It First”. There are four polishes in these collection. The formula of polishes is great, I didn’t have any problems with application. They all need two coats for full coverage. They are also well pigmented so they can be used for stamping

Absolutely Stylish: is dark brown shade with less visible green and red glitter mixed in it. Nice shade, great for autumn.

Lime Up!: perfect Shrek color. I really don’t like this shade on my nails. This one is dupe of OPI Who The Shrek Are You? I’ll never wear this polish (maybe just for Halloween if I’m Fiona )

Movie Star: Darker gray shade. This one is my favorite from the collection.

What Do You Think?: peachy coral creamy shade. This one is also nice.

I’ve done some Konading with Movie star and Konad image plate m81.

Which one is your favorite?
Lyra**

Essence, Konad

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Today I will show you two polishes from a very sought after Essence Denim Wanted collection. I really wanted to get the blues and pink polishes, but instead of I just got the gray and the black one. How great is that? I’m really pissed off about this collection, because it was only in one store in the city and it was completely sold out in the blink of an eye.

Fivepocket Gray: medium gray shade, creamy finish. Nothing special. It takes two coats for full coverage.

I Love My Jeans: black base with multicolor shimmer. It’s very similar to OPI Baby It’s ”Coal” Outside! This one also reminds me that I have to buy myself  black jeans

Have a nice day!

Lyra

Essence

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This is a manicure which I’m wearing at the moment. The base is Essence Pointbreak, and the roses are stamped with Essence Romeo. I used Konad image plate m65.

Have a nice time!
~Lyra~

Essence, Konad

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POLISHES: in this collection are four polishes. The formula is ok and I don’t have any problems with application. All of them have creamy finish and they are all two coaters.

Hang Loose: light milky lavender color with a hint of pink in it.

Pointbreak : medium gray shade.

Surferama: I think that Essence is already boring with this shade. I think they already released like four polishes exactly the same shade? Medium berry shade – that one is great pigmented. Nice and safe color, you can’t go wrong with it.

The World’s Coolest is my favorite in this collection. But the color is really hard to describe. It’s definitely not minty, but it’s not light blue either. Anyway I love it!

I did some stamping on this I used Essence stamping plate, Konad special polish white for flowers and China Glaze DV8 for butterflies.

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BLUSH in Surfer Babe TE is called Big Wave Survivor. It’s a nice medium pink shade and matte. I don’t think I will use this a lot, because I’m more into shimmering blushes.

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EYELINERS and EYESHADOW PALETTE
There are three eyeliners. They all have metallic like finish. They come in purple, light blue and dark silver colors.

Eye shadow palette it’s called Surfer’s Kit. It has six shades in it. Two of them are matte the others are shimmering. The shimmering ones are more pigmented than the matte shades.

This is all for today. Have a nice day!
-Lyra*

Konad

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I can say for sure that none of them are dupes. Zulu is the lightest and in comparisson to the others looks the grayest. Channelesque is the one with the strongest purple undertone. Desert Fox and FDTD have brown base, but Desert Fox is more grayish.

I hope you find this comparison useful.
-Lyra**

Catrice, China Glaze, Essence

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Yaaaay!! I have a new Essence Trend Edition collection. It’s called Into The Wild. You can find polishes, lip-glosses, eye-shadows, bronzing powder and jumbo eye-pencils in it. Look at all this stuff:

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POLISHES: in collection are four polishes.

Desert Fox is warm brown shade with gray undertone. The application was OK, and I applied two coats. If I was more careful, one would be enough.

Zulu is my favorite. It’s gray color with a hint of lavender. This one should be matte, but the matte effect is not so strong. It’s more plastic like looking. Anyway I like glossy look more than matte so it doesn’t bother me. I applied two coats.

Heart Chakra is my second favorite. It is nice mixture between coral and rose shade, so under some lights is more rosy and on the other is more coral looking. It needs two coats for full coverage.

Bongo Drums is neutral milky shade. This one is not well pigmented. After the first layer it looks like it’s almost clear. On the pictures are three layers, but the white tips are still visible. It’s also quite streaky.

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LIP-GLOSSES: the collection has three different shades of lip-glosses. Essence usually disappoints me with their glosses, because they are not well pigmented, but this time I was pleasantly surprised. They are good pigmented and the colors are also nice. One is jelly looking and the other two have shimmer in them.
Here I made swatches on my arm:

Heart Chakra is nice jelly rose shade, with coral undertones. This is my favorite.

Beat the Heat is shimmering golden color. Nice, but it doesn’t suit me at all.

40 Degree is golden brown shade with silver and red shimmer mixed in it.

How do you like this collection?

Have a nice day! -Lyra

Essence

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Za Konad sem uporabila Konad plato m57, uporabljen lakec pa je China glaze-Millennium,
ki prav tako spada pod chrome kategorijo Chine glaze chrom lakci se super obnesejo
za Konad.
Nisem si mislila, da bom kdaj na svojih nohtkih ugledala živalski vzorec, ker mi niso
preveč všeč, ampak sem si zgleda danes premislila

China Glaze, Konad

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