Shiny New Things! Part Two

As promised, here is the second part showing you the rest of the new additions to my nail polish family (that's right,  family heehee). I have been longing to try out Essie nail polish for sometime now, but at nearly £8 a bottle I just couldn't justify it... Until finding some of last seasons polishes at £3 a bottle in The Original Factory Shop! I bought every single colour they had, even a bright orange that I have no idea how I'm going to use! It was just an opportunity too good to miss.

After getting home with my new polishes, I decided to do a bit of reading about what I had bought (something I usually do beforehand, but it was so spur of the moment). I am so glad I had bought these polishes before I read what other people had to say about them, as it wasn't very positive, so I probably wouldn't have bought them. Which would have been a shame, as I LOVE them! The polishes that were on offer were the Essie Mirror Metallics 2012 collection -

From left to right; No Place Like Chrome, Blue Rhapsody, Nothing Else Metals, Penny Talk and Good As Gold. Here is what they looked like on my nails -

I cannot emphasise enough how much I love these, I don't have many metallic polishes in my collection, and these are just perfect. I have read a lot of comments saying that the formula was poor, and really streaky, but my nails pictured above was just one coat, it went on like a dream, and I am very happy with the finish - this doesn't even have a top coat! Also it dries in seconds, literally, it is perfect. I am super excited to try out stamping with it too, since it gives such an opaque effect with just one coat. Here is a closer look at the colours -

Above is Blue Rhapsody, a brilliant Metallic blue. Next is Nothing Else Metals, which has a girly pink/lilac colour -

The next polish is a metallic silver, called No Place Like Chrome, it is now my favourite silver in my collection -

Next we have a copper toned polish called Penny Talk, it is beautiful with a pinkish bronze colour, and is unlike any colour I have seen before. It is probably my favourite of the collection, although Blue Rhapsody is a very close second! Anyway, here is it -

The final polish is Good As Gold, which is a subtle metallic gold -

Pretty huh? I'm sure you can tell how excited I am about these polishes, they will be making an appearance again very soon!

The last new addition is a bit of a random one, I just found it all by itself, it is another Essie, in Orange, It's Obvious, which is a really rich reddish orange that I can't wait to try out... I just need to find the right occasion or nail art design! Here it is -

Definitely a different one for my collection! I am immediately thinking back to my autumn leaf mani of last year, the orange I used then didn't show up too well, I'm sure this one would, perhaps I will recreate my design this autumn using this Orange - the ideas are forming up already :).

Anyway, I really hope this kind of post is interesting to you, as they actually take ages! I just like to share my excitement :) I will soon be sharing some actual nail art with you though, if you are getting bored of reading about my shopping!

Much love, S x