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Essence - Baby , You're A Firework

Hi guys... Hope you all had a great weekend and had an amazing Mother's Day. Mine was nice and relaxing as a family.  Today I'm sharing one of the newer Essence Release polishes - One of their Effect Sparkling Sugar Polishes. I have to admit.. The colour in the bottle was EVERYTHING I hoped for in a polish.. Texture... Light  Pink ... But unfortunately on the nail it was a big disappointment for me. The colour is a little sheer , the effect wasn't there... The polish was just a plain polish on me so I ended up  top coating the polish.  Essence Baby You're a Firework has gorgeous golden and light pink glitters in a pearly shimmery base. As I said earlier , it is very sheer... If you have shorter nails or don't mind VNL ( Visible Nail Line) then you don't need to layer it though.  I layered it over Tip Top Melting Marshmallow in my photos with 2 coats Essence Baby, You're a Firework . The combo was nice and girly.. But it did leave me disappoin...

Essence : Boys are back in town & Just a Litte Crush

Hi guys ! Hope everyone had a fun weekend. Did anyone do something super exciting for the long weekend ? We had a fun family braai on Friday , chilled an did a little shopping.  Today I'm showing you one of the Essence Colour ³ - Meaning the polish can give you three colours in one - the two sides of the polish and a third one if you use them together . ♥ This is really a fun idea . Today I'm showing you the Boys are back in Town and Just a little Crush together. Boys are Back in Town is a very dusty greyed purple creme polish. I found this colour super opaque and only needed one coat . I really love colours like these for winter. ♥  Just a little crush is a layering polish. It's a clear slightly milky base filled with purple and blue toned violet shimmer micro glitter. On it's own it doesn't get opaque and isn't that noticeable (one of the main reasons I didn't include a separate photo of this one), but layer over the Boys are Back in Town is such a...