Essence new polishes: Cookie Love + Nude Glam Cookies & Cream

Hey everyooone! Today I will be showing you two Essence polishes from their new collection. Both named something with cookie! Let's begin with Cookie Love from the Colour & Go collection. I used two coats and no topcoat.

indirect sunlight, no flash. 

daylight, no sun, no flash.

close-up from the bottle..isn't that purrrretty? 

kittypics!

Cookie Love is a gorgeous brown polish with small golden glitters and some golden flakies :D The flakies are not that visible on your nails, but when you look really closely you'll see some. Formula was great on this one, applying was good and drying time was only 10 minutes. 

So here's the next one, Cookies & Cream from the Nude Glam collection. I used 3 coats and one layer of topcoat. 

shade, no flash.

indirect sunlight, no flash. 

outside, sunlight, no flash! (most colour accurate)

close-up, shimmers!

more kittypics!

The colour is pretty much the same as Hazelnut Cream Pie, but HCP has that Chanel - Paradoxal purple shimmer and C&C has golden and silver shimmer. I didn't particularly like the formula on this one, I had to apply 3 coats and a topcoat because it tends to get a little bubbly. 

Wich one do you like better, Hazelnut Cream Pie or Cookies & Cream? 

x Elize

Still no Simba :( + Cetuem - 194 (duochrome madness!)

Hi guys, sorry for the lack of posting.. We're still looking for Simba everywhere but he's nowhere to be found. You stupid cat, would you just come back already? 

Anyway, here is my NOTD, it's Cetuem - 194, wich I got from Lucy, and it's a duochrome beautyyyy! It's a blurple based duochrome, and it shifts to green and light brown in some angles. It took me two coats to make this opaque, that's not bad for a duochrome!

daylight, no flash.

daylight, no flash.

daylight, kinda sunny, no flash.

sunlight, no flash.

daylight, no flash. this is pretty much how it looks when you look at it straight from the front.

close-up to show you the duochrome, see the green and brown? pretty huh?!

kittypic, with flash. here you can see the blurple base I was talking about.

I think Luna is sad too, because of Simba. I really hope he's doing OK, and he's somewhere safe. Back to the polish, it smelled awfull. You know, nailpolish doesn't smell very nice, but this one smelled afwull. I can't even describe it, yuk! But it was definitely worth it. 

I have some other news to share with you as well! I finally got a job :D I'll be working at the supermarket Albert Heijn, just re-stocking the shelves (or something like that, we call it a 'vakkenvuller'). Anyway, I'm really excited! My first day will be this friday, and I'll probably tweet about it on my twitter. I really want to host a giveaway when I reach 200 or 250 followers, and that will might just be possible now! 

x Elize

Love, Peace and Purple Poison!

Hi guys! Today I polished my nails with Love, Peace and Purple by Essence, wich seems to be a great dupe for Chanel Paradoxal (wich I don't own haha..). It's gorgeous! 

with flash

artificial light to show you the purple shimmer!

normal light, no flash.

It applied a bit annoying, because of the cap and the really small brush haha but it only needed 2 coats to be opaque! Last picture is most colour accurate. Then I added some stamping, I used Konad M65 and Catrice - Poison Me, Poison You! 

with flash.

normal light, no flash.

All pictures are without any top coat. So, tell me what you think of this brown/purple striped manicure?

x Elize