Swatches & Review: Essie Tart Deco

Hello lovelies!

Today's post is Essie Tart Deco which is a polish from their Art Nouveau (was it called that?!) collection from a while ago.

Tart Deco is a pastel orange-y peach creme, but it's a bright pastel. Does that make sense? It's pretty in-your-face, but still definitely a pastel.

I used three coats for the pictures and it definitely needed them. This was runny, streaky on the first coat and there was quite a bit of dragging going on after that. However, I really dig the colour so I'm willing to put up with the mediocre application.

Have a lovely day! <3

Swatches & Review: China Glaze Chiaroscuro

Happy Sunday, lacquered lovelies!

Today I have for you China Glaze Chiaroscuro, which is a nude-ish, peachy, slightly frosty shimmer. Oh yay, everything I usually hate thrown into a single polish! Right? WRONG. It is awesome, ladies. Trust me. I saw this on another blog - I'm not sure who posted it, if it was you, please let me know and I'll link to your post! - and I just knew I had to have it.

First two pictures were taken inside, the other two in sunlight.

Let me say this straight away: These pictures do not do the polish justice. Chiaroscuro is a warm, peachy, golden shimmer. It's slightly frosty, but not too much. Now, none of this sounds very interesting, does it? However, this has the most awesome green duochrome. It is stunning. Also, this seems like a bit of a chameleon to me; here it looks mostly peach, but in low light it looks almost mauve-y.

I think this is as close as I'll ever get to wearing nude polish.

Formula was okay on this. It's a little bit thin and runny and I did need three coats to get it opaque (You could still see VNL at certain angles, but not enough to bother me). Then again, I think this is actually intended to be worn sheer. It did take quite a qhile to dry, even with Seche Vite on top.

That's it from me for today; I managed to hurt my shoulder/back yesterday so I'll just do some more relaxing.