Essie - Pink Works (Pink About It, Breast Cancer Awareness Collection 2013)

I'm in a pink flow here, so today I show you Essie's Pink Works from the Breast Cancer Awareness Collection of last year. This pink is described as a "fresh pink with reflective red shimmer"......welllllll.....it is pink, you can look at it as fresh I guess, but that red shimmer????? There is some slight shimmer in the bottle but it does not transfer to the nail at all. So you end up with a completely average pink creme on your nails.

Essie - Pink Works

This was three coats and it applied fairly good for a light creme pink. It is not squishy looking and it had no depth due to the disappearing shimmer.
Out of the two polishes from this Collection I prefer Pink About it; the shimmer is more visible (although not holografic as was advertised) and it looks more much more squishy. For me Pinks Works just does not work.
All in all this collection was a disappointment for me really, there are far more interesting pinks on the market then these (even Essie has them...).

Essie - Pink About It (Pink About It, Breast Cancer Awareness Collection) 2013

A bit out of my confort zone is this baby pink by Essie. Pink About It is one of the two polishes that make the Pink About it Breast Cancer Awareness Collection of this year.
PAI is discribed as a blossom pink with holographic glimmer...the blossom pink part is the nail on the head but the holographic glimmer...is just not there! No holographic particles anywhere in this polish.

So that was a bit of a bummer (I ordered the polish via internet so I had not seen it before hand).

It has glimmer, somewhere, you can see it when the stars are aligned just right en then when the sun does not hit it directly, you will see a tiny twinkle.

In the bottle it is there and you can determine that it consists of two colours: fuchia and gold.
I had to apply four coats to get a nice opaque and non-streaky nail....so that got me over the threshold of applying more then two coats of polish ;-)

Although it is non holographic with almost non excisting glimmer and streaky, the colour was kind of flattering on me and I wore it for four days and really enjoyed it!

Essie - Pink About It

Still those dry hands and cuticles....I know, I know >sigh<