Essence Ultimate Pink

I have a bunch of Essence polish. I get these Color & Go cuties at Ulta. They're a small size bottle for cheap. The polish, however, is not cheap as far as color, application and wear go. They are awesome sauce!

Essence Ultimate Pink is a bright pink creme. It's kind of what I'd call a berry pink. Which, of course. is my ultimate favorite polish shade to wear. Application is flawless and wear is surprisingly long for an inexpensive polish. Essence is a German brand and they have a lot of cool polish that I see online. I'd love love love to have their Twins set of Carrie and Mr. Big. I've never seen anywhere I can get it tho, so sadly it's never joined my collection. Essence has a new(ish) bottle now they changed to last year. I like the new bottle a lot, but, I have all these other shades in the old bottle and I hate having different bottle shapes for the same brand. Really it just grates my OCD nerves looking at my polish in my Alex with different shapes. So, I haven't bought any yet. Maybe one day I will.

Butter London Trout Pout

Trout Pout was on my wish list for far too long. I finally bought it then let it sit in my Alex for forever before finally using it!

Butter London Trout Pout was released in their 2012 Spring/Summer collection. Isn't it lovely. It's a salmon pink with the perfect formula and smooth as silk application. It wears amazingly as well. It's really gorgeous in person.

Wet N Wild The Gold & The Beautiful

Wet N Wild released a LE Craze collection called Pixel Perfect back in the summer of 2010. I bought the whole set. For some reason. It's probably part of my OCD and needing a complete collection. It's silly really :D I am trying really hard to only purchase the shades from each collection that I actually don't have a dupe of nowadays. Unless the collection has some meaning to me. Then I'll probably buy the whole thing...

Wet N Wild The Gold & The Beautiful is a gold metallic. It's pretty straight forward gold metallic. It's opaque in two coats and it wears really well. It's pretty cool looking and doesn't have the frosty look you sometimes get with metallics like this. Which makes me happy.

Ninja Polish Pacific Coral

I've become quite a fan of Ninja Polish. Their polish is really high quality, love their bottles and brush,  they have international polish, indie polish as well as their own brand, and their customer service is top notch.

Ninja Polish Pacific Coral is amazeballs!! It's a pinky-orange coral with the most amazing gold shimmer. When you see this outside in person you are just in awe. It's that stunning. The pictures don't even begin to do it justice. It's just so sparkly! It's part of their Enigma Collection and as far as I know it was just released. Application was perfect. Wear time is also perfect. Gorgeous!

Pure Ice Iced Merlot

I wanted to love this a lot more than I do. Sadly, I think it's going to end up in the blog sale box.

Pure Ice Iced Merlot is a dark reddish purpley jelly with a lot of shimmer. It's a lot darker than I expected. From the swatches I saw online before I bought it, I thought it was going to be more raspberry like. Reddish pink maybe. But this is what it looks like from my bottle. I wonder if I got a bad batch? I don't like it much and consequently I has a sad :(

Spa Ritual Hidden Reef

Hidden Reef is the only Spa Ritual I own. I don't go to Sephora a lot and so I've only looked at the brand a few times casually. If Hidden Reef is any indication though, I need more :)

Spa Ritual Hidden Reef is from the spring 2012 Water Collection. Hidden Reef is a rose pink with golden shimmer. The shimmer is subtle but really pretty. I have had this a long time and haven't worn it because I thought that it might be a border line "mature" shade. I think it's not; and really looked good with my skin tone.  I'm glad I finally decided to try it out. It's a keeper!

OPI DS Signature

OPI Designer Series...

OPI DS Signature is a berry reddish pink holographic with so much holo effect it's amazing. Application was perfect and in the past when I've worn this wear time was not bad for a holographic. I can usually get 2 days. Which is ok with me. I decided to wear it for the weekend because we're going deep sea fishing Sunday, and what better polish to wear on a day out in the sun than holographic! I can't wait. I love fishing on a big ole boat on the ocean.