Essie A Crewed Interest

It's no secret that I love peach nail varnishes and when I spied A Crewed Interest as part of Essie's S/S 2012 collection, I knew I'd be introducing a new peachy shade to my collection.

It's a delicate peach shade and applies very smoothly (lets ignore the big smoosh mark I made on my middle finger).

It's so pretty!

Essie Navigate Her

Happy Easter Sunday! I hope everyone got loads of lovely Easter Eggs:) Today is perfect to post a lovely Spring/Eastery shade.

Essie's Navigate Her hails from their S/S 2012 collection.

I was instantly drawn to this pistachio green shade and I wasn't disappointed in how stunning the colour is on the nails.

 

Formula wasn't the best ever. It ended up slightly lumpy but I think that was mainly my own fault by not letting the first coat dry for long enough.

OPI Holland Collection Part 1

I think OPI's Spring/Summer 2012 offering was the nail polish collection that I was most excited about.  The Holland collection contains a mixture of cremes and shimmers and it did not disappoint.

I ended up getting 11 of the 12 available shades and I'm going to show you the first 6 in this post.

Red Lights Ahead...Where?

Red Lights Ahead...Where? is a bright orange based red.

I Have A Herring Problem

I Have A Herring Problem is a steel blue with gold shimmer

Vampsterdam

Vampsterdam is a glorious deep plummy colour. Bright enough to never look black.

Pedal Faster Suzi!

Pedal Faster Suzi! is a cute petal pink with golden microshimmer.

Gouda Gouda Two Shoes

Gouda Gouda Two Shoes is a  pinky brown with golden shimmer.

Thanks A Windmillion

Thanks A Windmillion is a sea foam green creme.

Have you picked up any of the shades from the Holland collection?

My Spring 2012 Nail Polish Picks

In some ways it doesn't seem like Spring. Maybe because the last while there has been way more dreary, heavy, grey filled days than those with clear-skies. Or else it's because we didn't have to emerge from sub-zero temperatures this year, so it didn't feel like such a change. Regardless of what it feels like, it is in fact Spring so I thought I would show you some of my favourite Spring colours! Some of these are older colours and some are from S/S 12 collections:)

L-R Dior Waterlily, OPI Gargantuan Green Grape, Essie Navigate Her and Essie Turquoise&Caicos.

L-R China Glaze Sea Spray, Kinetic Candy and For Audrey.

L-R OPI Pink Friday, Catrice Sweets For My Sweet and Gosh Yellow Doll.

L-R Barry M Berry Ice Cream, OPI Do You Lilac It?(Top),OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender (Bottom) and Zoya Marley.

L-R OPI Melon of Troy, Barry M Peach Melba, Chanel June, Essie A Crewed Interest and Essie Topless and Barefoot.

So those are my picks for this Spring. What's your favourite colours to wear in Spring?

China Glaze Electropop 'Lights' Spring/Summer 2012

Most of the Spring nail varnish collections have impressed me this year. I bought 6 of the 12 colours from the China Glaze Electropop collection.

Fuchsia Fanatic

A bright fuchsia pink. It shows up brighter on the nail, it's not quite a raspberry colour.

Dance Baby

A lightly blue toned candy pink.

Electric Beat

A medium to light blue, verging on a dusty blue.

Kinetic Candy

Mint greens haven't gone anywhere this Spring! Sufficient amounts of blue in this particularly minty shade. Quite a muted shade.

Sweet Hook

A beautiful, soft lilac.

Gothic Lolita

A deeper purple that still remains very bright.

The formula on all of these was kind of thick, yet runny. Globs of polish kept falling off the brush and on to the table. It was also kind of a sticky formula.

Whilst the formula wasn't favourable, the colours are gorgeous so if any of them take your fancy I wouldn't necessarily let a troublesome formula stop you from getting them.