DifferentDimension: Selene

Selene is my second polish from the lovely and talented Missi of DifferentDimension. Selene is a barely-tinted white jelly base with matte white glitter hexes, shards, rounds and micro-glitter.  For a truly shivery look, I layered two coats of Selene over two coats of femme couture Chrome, a silver foil.  The pictures are before top coat, but after the second coat of Selene dried, I added one coat of Gelous and one coat of Nubar Diamont and had glass-smooth nails.

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Formula-wise, Selene was lovely--only a small amount of glitter-placing was required, and it wore like iron.  I had this on for a full week with no chips and only minor tipwear.  Highly recommended!

Essence Colour & Go: Walk on the Wild Side

Walk on the Wild Side is a dark, yellow-toned green with bright green shimmer.  Like all of the Essence polishes I've gotten, the formula was a dream to work with!  All swatches are three coats without top coat.

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Unfortunately, there's too much yellow in Walk on the Wild Side for this to look good on me.  :(  But for someone who can pull off army green, this is a great polish!  Essence Colour & Go polishes are available online and in-store at Ulta, where they retail for $1.99 + tax.

Essence Colour & Go: Oh My Glitter

Oh My Glitter is a perfect medium purple, leaning neither red nor blue, with bright fuchsia shimmer.   Like the other Essence polishes I've tried, the formula was just wonderful.  I used three coats and no top coat for my swatches.

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Unfortunately, my camera didn't do a very good job of capturing the shimmer, but it's there and very pretty!  Essence Colour & Go polishes are available online and in-store at Ulta, where they retail for $1.99 + tax.

Essence Colour & Go: Greyt to be Here

Greyt to be Here is a lovely light grey with fuchsia shimmer.  Despite the flattened brush, it stayed exactly where I put it, no drips, no drags, no pools.  I think because of the lighter color, this one took three coats for opacity, so all swatches are three coats and no top coat.

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The shimmer is subtle, only strongly visible in direct light, but it's still a very pretty polish.  Essence Colour & Go polishes are available online and in-store at Ulta, where they retail for $1.99 + tax.

Essence Colour & Go: Date in the Moonlight

Finally, the new Ulta store near me is open!  This means I have access to what is (so far) the only US outlet for Essence Colour & Go polishes.  For the store's grand opening, I had a coupon for 20% off my entire purchase, so the polishes wound up costing me $1.59 + tax.

The first ever Essence polish on my blog is Date in the Moonlight, a dark grey crème with bright blue shimmer.  Sadly, it does need two coats for opacity, at which point the shimmer is drowned out and the dark grey looks black.  Still, the formula was very good--this is an extremely well-behaved polish, going exactly where I wanted it and not dragging or pooling.  For the price, I may use it up in either water-marbling or try to franken a lighter version.  Anyway, all swatches are two coats, no top coat.

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Essence Colour & Go polishes are available online and in-store at Ulta.  They retail for $1.99 + tax.

ncla From Dusk Till Dawn polish collection press release

ncla is a Los Angeles-based nail polish company, and their autumn 2012 polish collection has arrived!

From Dusk Till Dawn consists of four polishes:

Call Me For The After Party, a blue metallic:

Dirty Martini, an olive créme:

Rock Solid, a grey créme with silver shimmer:

and

Without Me, there's no Vip, a berry shimmer:

ncla polishes are available on their website and in brick and mortar stores (but the website doesn't say which stores!) and retail for $16.00 each.

Ulta nail polish in Blues Cruise

Blues Cruise is one of Ulta's own brand of nail polish, and these can often be found on sale, both online and in their brick and mortar stores.   Blues Cruise  is a beautiful blue glitter suspended in a lightly blue-tinted jelly.  The pictures show it as leaning purple, but in real life it's a true royal blue.  I had to adjust the color values a bit to get the true color of the polish to show, so please forgive the weirdly-colored fingers! :) Swatches are, from pinky to index, one, two, three and four coats.

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It's beautiful, but because of the glitter removal, this one is probably going to be used strictly for layering.