Essie - Resort Fling (Resort Fling, Resort Collection 2014)

In order to stay with the holiday pleasures for a bit longer, I opted for the name sake of Essie's Resort Collection this year: Resort Fling.
It is a jummy crelly and the colour I would describe as a peachy salmon or coral cantaloupe...if that makes any sense? For fun I added a thin layer of OPI I don't Speak Meak (which seems to be an overstock re-release of Nicole's Here Kim's The Sun. Karen Falcon of Imabeautygeek.com wrote a big blogpost about that fenomena here)
Just look at this juicy and fruity beauty of Resort Fling (don't mind the chip on my pinky nail.....it was there after I did some very hard sleeping and drinking coffee, no polish can take that, right?!....):

Essie - Resort Fling

With one layer of OPI I don't Speak Meak.

This was three very easy applied coats of syrupy goodness, it levels out perfectly (no streaks, no bald spots: just perfection). The wear was a tiny issue, BUT it could be that because I wore NO NAIL POLISH AT ALL for almost four weeks >ieks, I know<
Perhaps I should soak my nails in acetone for a while ;-)

Essie - Breezy Beach (this is an old one!)

Polish on holiday number 6:

Very nude and very Essie, this Breezy Beach (lovely name).
It is a peach pink nude with a hot purple pink flash.
It very easy to wear, very work appropriate >duh<, to go short: you can not go wrong with this one.
Yet the shimmer gives it that something extra that made me want to own it!

Essie - Breezy Beach

This is an old formula, so it is very watery and thin. I needed four thin coats to build up to this result.
Perhaps this would look great as a top coat as well....I might just try that some time!

Elevation Polish - Mount Augustus (Australia Sunrise & Sunset Collection 2013)

Pink, it was love at first sight, yeah
Pink, when I turn out the light
Yeah pink, it's like red but not quite
And I think everything is going to be alright
No matter what we do tonight

(lyrics: Pink by Aerosmith)

It's Mount Augustus today: the weather here in The Netherlands is so dreary that I needed something warm and light! I was hard taking pictures in this drab and grey weather >I'm sorry<

Mount Augustus is a peach pink with electric violet shimmer and little gold flecks. The formula was a bit thick but quite workable. I used three coats to get this result.
It was perhaps a bit too much spring/summer but hey, everything is better then the eternal autumn we are celebrating here!

Elevation Polish - Mount Augustus

I really like these colours: the oranges with blue/violet shimmer BUT the formula almost always seems to disappoint (like with RBL NailsandNoms) and the wear time is very short (?). It's weird these polishes seem to become very hard when dry and very brittle as well.....perhaps the amount of shimmer makes the formula less strong or something...? I don't know what causes it, perhaps it is just me and my weird nail chemistry???

OPI - You Callin' Me a Lyre? (NYC Ballet Soft Shades Collection, spring 2012) and OPI - Which is Witch? (Oz The Great And Powerful Collection, spring 2013)

I needed something fresh and neutral on my nails this week: so I choose OPI You Callin' Me A Lyre? sandwiched with Opi Which Is Witch? This is two layers of YCMAL then one WIW and then again one YCMAL to finish the sandwich.
I love it when glitter is sandwiched or mattified...it makes the glitter more wearable and less harsh ;-)
YCMAL is a soft peachy pink jelly, very neutral really. WIW is holographic micro fun (it's a true micro disco ball): there are silver holographic micro glitters, silver holografic micro bars (more like tiny mouse hairs) and some bigger silver holografic hexes in a clear base.

The result:

OPI - You Callin' Me A Lyre & OPI - Which Is Witch?

It was a nice "palate cleanser" and I wore it for four days. I liked it so much that I will stay in the soft and pink corner for a while. It is always nice to be a bit pink and girly!

China Glaze - Sunsational Summer Neons 2013 - Sun Of A Peach and a comparison

Next up from the China Glaze Sunsational Collection is Sun Of A Peach (SOAP), a light neon pastel peach/salmon colour. Somewhere on the web I read that neon pastels don't exist but I beg to differ...they do...just look at SOAP (and Bottoms UP; all the cremes from the Sunsational Collection as a matter of fact).
It is definately pastel, there is loads of white in the base and it is most definatly neon because it glows in the late afternoon when there is lots of ultraviolet light in the air!

The fomula of this one was a tiny bit better then Bottoms Up, but still streaky and fast drying. I did three layers this time....yet it still is not fully covered as I would like it to be.

What do you think:

China Glaze - Sun Of A Peach, Highlight Of My Summer and Bottoms Up

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Like all neons, SOAP is impossible to photograph. The colour of the last picture is somewhat accurate but not nearly neon enough....
Today I added some stripes as a accent nail. For the stripes I used Bottoms Up and Highlight Of My Summer.

Next up I did a little comparison with colours that are somewhat in the family of SOAP: China Glaze Pink Plumeria (PP; the lightest colour from the summer neons of last year) and Mimosa's Before Mani's (MBM) from the Avant Garden Collection 2013.

China Glaze - Pink Plumeria, Sun Of A Peach and Mimosa's Before Mani's

left: Mimosa's Before Mani's middle: Pink Plumeria left: Sun Of A Peach

As you can see MBM is in the same colour familie but is darker, has golden shimmer and does not have the pastelly neon qualities SOAP has. PP is neon but is more pink then peach and has some silver shimmer to it.

I looked in my stash and remembered Essie's Haute As Hello (HAH) that was described at the time to have some neon qualities....and I saw the very ancient OPI Nice Hand...Great Nails (NHGN) which looked to be it the family.

OPI - Nice Hand...Great Nails, China Glaze - Sun Of A Peach, Essie - Haute As Hello

top: Haute As Hello, bottom: Sun Of A Peach

top: Nice Hand...Great Nails, bottom: Sun Of A Peach

Essie's HAH has indeed have some neon qualities to it but much less then SOAP and it is more pinkish peach (both are cremes).
OPI NHGN has the orange going on with gold and silver shimmer (?) yet is no way a neon and is a lot darker then SOAP.

China Glaze - Avant Garden Collection - Mimosa's Before Mani's

Next up in the Avant Garden Collection is Mimosa's Before Mani's. It is a lovely peachy coral/orange colour with a hint of shimmer. I was pleasently surprised by this one: it is a very flattering and happy colour. Not pastel at all and not too bright either.

Have a look:

China Glaze - Mimosa's Before Mani's

in sunlight

There is some shimmer in there...do you see it?

in the shade

This is 2 layers with a topcoat: it would have been even better with 3 layers I guess....
I had to thin the polish a bit to make it more workable, it was a bit syrupy and sticky.

In my next post I am going to attempt some nailart.....stay tuned....!