.Essie Summer Collection - Fear or Desire.

Fear or Desire* is my second favourite colour in Essie’s Summer Collection. This colour is a beautiful strong bright orange perfect for summer 2012’s colour palette and would look gorgeous next to holiday tanned skin. It covers in two coats well and like all Essie Polishes i’ve tried it dries quite quickly too - perfect for slapping on before a lazy summer BBQ or for an evening around the pool bar!

Here i’ve teamed it up with some funky Square Gold Studs* from Born Pretty Store turned sideways to make little diamonds down the centre of my accent nails and a gorgeous pattern from Bundle Monster’s 315 plate* from their new collection on my others! Again Barry M’s Gold polish is fantastic for stamping and transfers really well!

You can pick up a bottle of this amazing summer colour from John & Ginger HERE!

If you like this design don’t forget to visit my Etsy Shop - Pretty Little Nails! If you can’t see a design you want just drop me a message and i can make you your very own custom set however you like and file them to fit too!

What are your thoughts on this Summer’s brights?

xax

.Essie Off The Shoulder | Swatch.

 

This is another colour from Essie’s lovely Summer Collection - a bright hot pink called Off The Shoulder*. I like to think of it as a Barbie pink (in a good way) and i think it goes really well with a pale skin tone but could also be a fantastic colour for tanned skin round the pool. I wasn’t a huge fan of bright nail colours until i tried this and Essie’s Fear or Desire* but now i’m hooked and i think i could go even brighter - have you seen Essie’s new Poppy Razzi Collection?! Camera and Action are just Amazing!

The first picture here shows just how smooth these polishes dry, they’re great. With a layer of Seche Vite they look just like a gel manicure, and they last almost as long too. I’ve jazzed it up with a simple pattern from plate 314 in Bundle Monster’s new 2012 plate collection* using Maybelline’s Golden Brown - a great colour for stamping with!

You can pick up this gorgeous bright summer colour along with the rest of Essie’s Summer Collection from John & Ginger HERE!

What do you think of Essie’s Summer brights?

xax
(I always seem to break my middle finger nail first so apologies for this slightly uneven mani…i need to be more careful with my hands!)