Essie: Wrapped in Rubies and Finger Paints: It Baroque

In honor my broken nails growing out enough to finally have a free edge, I was inspired to show off two colors today 8-) It's nice to be able to polish my nails and actually have them look decent now.

First up is Essie Wrapped in Rubies. The bottle shows a reddish brown color with heavy amounts of gold shimmer. On the nail, the shimmer isn't anywhere near as noticeable as the bottle and there really isn't any brown, it still translates into a nice autumn red color. Perfect for this time of year. I really loved wearing this one.

The next color up for today is Finger Paints It Baroque. It's an army green shade that's so earthy, I just love it. I don't own many FP polishes, but this one was pretty perfect. The formula and brush were amazing, I had enough control when applying that I didn't have to do any cleanup (a rarity for me! LOL).

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Ah ha! I just need to add some Grapefruit Glimmer.

So, I was wondering what color would work with my Mink Muffs mani, but I wanted something that wouldn't take away from the awesome brown color....and perfect! I added a layer of Revlon Grapefruit Glimmer. GG is a sheer pink with pink glass flecks. It works so well, it doesn't change up the brown, it just adds a little jazz to it. ♥



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Essie Mink Muffs

So, Mink Muffs is just a straight up brown cream color....sounds boring on paper, right? But wow, it's so pretty! I just love the color, it an awesome neutral shade of brown. I bet it would make a great base color of some sort, I'll have to see what I can layer over top it.




Our poor grass is so crispy right now.....


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Border Manicure

I love all these specialty manis lately.....gradients, water marble, and border (or framed) manicures. It's fun to experiment, and I figured I'd give a border manicure a try. I actually tried this before my gradient the other day (this was actually my Cinco dy Mayo mani). The base is Supernail ProGel Blue Granite and the innards are Essie One Day without Blues.  I wish I had a steadier hand, but overall, I really liked wearing this one.



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Dry Water Marble trial

I first heard of dry water marbling from More Nail Polish's Blog post and I knew I just had to try it out. Basically, you transfer the water marble pattern on plastic, let it dry and then transfer the color to your base color.

I used Essie's One Day without Blues and Wet n Wild Eggplant Frost. I really need to work on my technique. I think I need to watch some of Colette's videos. She's a water marble genius and I know I could use some pointers! LOL. Anyways, here's what I came up with. This was over my Zoya Gemma mani from last Friday:





Not too bad for a 1st try ☺
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Sinful Colors Cinderella

Since it's Easter weekend, I thought I'd go all pastel on you today with Sinful Colors Cinderella. Cinderella is a very sheer blue with pink glass fleck shimmer. I layered it here over Essie One Day Without Blues. ODWB is a wonderful light blue that worked as the perfect base color for this mani.






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Revlon: Whimsical - Re-swatched

Sooo, when I put on One Day Without Shoes yesterday, I can't believe I didn't think to use this as a base for Revlon Whimsical when I 1st swatched it. Truthfully, I think I forgot I owned it, I'm more of a vampy girl and don't really have any other colors like this. They go great together and I kind of have a crush on this combo right now.





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Essie: One Day Without Blues

I won this color for being one of the 1st 5,000 people to like TOMS shoes on Facebook around this time last year. I normally wouldn't go for this type of blue, but I'm glad to have it in my collection. It feels so "Spring" to me.



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Essie Nail Wheel

I'm relatively new to Essie, so I only really have a few colors. My general opinion of them if that most colors are either blah boring or super vampy black.

Here are my colors, make sure to click to enlarge the picks:


Dive Bar is a nice basically black color with blue shimmer. Pretty in the sun, but it falls into my looks black pet peeve. Ruby Slipper, well, what can I say? It's red and glitter, so I love it! LOL.


I got One Day Without Blues from the Facebook giveaway, I think it was last fall. The other three I got at Ulta's B2G1 sale. I do love Going Incognito! I wore that sucker for a week and never tired of it.



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Essie Going Incognito

I picked up a few Essies from Ulta when they had their buy 2 get 1 free sale, and Going Incognito is one of the colors I chose. GI is a nice green leaning towards teal cream color. I didn't have any problems with the formula, this is only the 5th Essie I've ever worn. So far so good ♥






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Essie Ruby Slippers

Today's color is Essie's Ruby Slippers. I made the mistake of buying it on eBay for $12 shipped, but you can get it online at 8 to 8 Beauty for like $4. Oh well.

Ruby Slippers is a red jelly with red glitter...it kind of has a bit of gold to it as well.


I only own two Essie's; this and Dive Bar. So far I like them, but I think they're general color selection is a bit boring. I do have my eye one a couple other colors though, so I may have to get more soon ☺

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