Essie - Fiji & LA Girl Glitter Addict - Uninhibited

In principle I like pale pinks, I just find them a bit too stark and girly on my nails most of the time. Then I thought of this simple black glitter topper by LA Girl: Uninhibited. I tried the combination and fell in love: it is perfection! The black glitter make the pale pink a bit less sweet and girly and adds just the perfect amount of funk to the colour. Uninhibited is a simple glitter topper: black hexes in two sizes (tiny and a bit less tiny) in a transparent base.

Essie - Fiji & LA Girl Glitter Addict - Uninhibited

Essie - Fiji & LA Girl Glitter Addict - Uninhibited

A fresh and new mani: I love pale pink but it really doesn't suit me >I think< but this lovely simple black gllitter topper makes Essie's famous pale pink Fiji very wearable for me!
This is the american version (with the skinny brush) of Fiji and it is a very light bubble gum pink.
The glitter by LA Girl is a simple black micro glitter with some bigger black glitter mixed in. On the nail it looks like a bunch of pixels stranded on there, or like sweet pink birds eggs!

This was two/three layers of Fiji and one layer Uninhibited.

Essie - Fiji & LA Girl Glitter Addict - Uninhibited

ANNY - Naked Venus 244 (Yachting Holidays Collection, summer 2014) and comparison with Essie Fiji and China Glaze Friends Forever Right?

I was in NEED of a very pale pink (think Essie Fiji)! What to do, when Fiji is sold out everywhere? In that precarious case one goes to Douglas and buys Anny's Naked Venus....
Fortunately I also found Essie Fiji in the European and the American version (!) so I can compare them all together.
This was two coats of pale pink goodness (the family said it looked like white, but we girls know better, right?!). The Poshé topcoat did some weird shrinking thingy at the edges, so next time I'll use a different brand and hope to avoid that particular problem.

ANNY - Naked Venus 244

Naked Venus is a lovely and very fresh pale pink polish, perhaps I should say it is a white with a hint of pink.
Next I compared NV with the two Essie's I told you about and with China Glaze Friends Forever Right? from The Giver Collection.

From left to right is (in the first picture):
Essie Fiji US, Essie Fiji EU, Anny Naked Venus, Chins Glaze FFR? and Essie Blanc

As you can see the US Fiji is the most pink of the 5 (it really is a true light pink), the EU variation is a bit lighter and has a drop of yellow. Then comes Anny: an extremely pale pink, while China Glaze FFR? is a white with a hint of pink and Essie Blanc is a true white. The China Glaze is the closest to the Anny in colour, formula wise I do not know yet, because I have not worn FFR on the nails yet....