Essie Holiday Collection

Every year around Christmas different polish companies start releasing holiday collections. I am quickly overwhelmed with RED RED RED and maybe a few greens, a white and the token glitter thrown in at the end.

I love green polishes but I rarely, if ever, paint my nails red. Because of this I usually end up ignoring most of the holiday collections and only picking up the glitters and maybe a new green.

This past holiday however, I was pleasantly surprised with Essie's Holiday colors.

Yes, there were red polishes (three of them) but one, much to my surprise, that I absolutely had to have, and the most beautiful turquoise blue I have seen yet. Even their glitter was fun and unique compared to others I had seen. Woah. They even a had a BEAUTIFUL deep cream blue. I loved it!

I ended up only purchasing two from this collection. Where's My Chauffeur and Leading Lady. I might end up grabbing Butler Please later on, but right now I'm happy with just these two.

I have already worn Where's My Chauffeur several times and am just head over heels for it.

I love this polish because it's almost a one coater, I used two just to cover some bald spots for the photo and it is SO shiny. A very smooth application as well. I'm wearing it here with no top coat.

 



 

I also layered Kawaii Nail Laquer's Snowflake Effect (a beautiful custom polish) over for a winter look

The prettiest.

 

 

And now for Leading Lady:

Haha, please ignore my unpainted thumb. I don't usually paint it when swatching colors ;)

LOOK AT THIS RED THOUGH.

IT IS SO DARN SPARKLY

The application is wonderful, and is shown here with two coats, no topcoat. In the future I would probably use three coats for a more perfectly opaque look and definitely top it off with a top coat for added shine.

 

Feeling punky

 

 

I hope you all enjoyed the photos



Keep Going & Don't Give Up

I don't make New Year's Resolutions.

I have nothing against them, it just seems to me that we should be trying to better ourselves throughout the year, and not just at the beginning of it.

If I were to make resolutions, they would probably go a little something like this:

-Blog more (I mean really, my last post was October 14th. That's pathetic)
-Live a healthier lifestyle
-Keep my room clean (it's a never-ending mess)
-Spend less and save more.
-Cherish the time I have with family and friends
-Be more consistent in my walk with God

...and so on.

 

The thing is, these six things are things that I already try to do every day. I fail at them all consistently but I keep trying because they are all important to me. I want to do everything on this list perfectly but I don't. I'm not resolving to do these because I'm already resolved to do them once and I haven't given up just because I've failed.

So maybe that's what my resolution should be...

Keep Going & Don't Give Up