Essie Navigate Her

The other day when I posted 10 to Midnight I promised I'd show off Essie Navigate Her with a better picture, so here it is!

I love this green! I wish I had more pictures but unfortunately I didn't have many that turned out well.
But just look at this! It's so pretty! My boyfriend thinks cremes are boring, but I love them. :) And they're not a pain to take off unlike glitter!
This was the first non top coat (Matte About You and Shine of the Times) Essie that I've ever used and I loved it! The formula was great, and what you see in the picture is two coats. Unfortunately a fingerprint made it's way on as the top coat was drying. I had this on for two days and I didn't have any tipwear, which is so crazy for me because I get tipwear on almost everything after a day.
Essie Navigate Her is part of the Essie's 2012 Spring Collection, also called Navigate Her. It retails for $8 and can be found here.

Ulta Mint Condition

The other day I received my Ulta rewards certificate in the mail and I was really excited to see that I could get a bottle of Ulta nail polish at rank 1! I decided on Mint Condition because it reminded me of China Glaze For Audrey, a polish I have been wanting for some time.

The picture is with flash, which makes it look a bit brighter than it is in person, but the pictures without flash made it look a lot more grey and sad. I have two coats on here, but I definitely could have used a third. The formula was a bit of a pain to work with. It was thin, and it seemed like I always had either too much or not enough polish on the brush. Luckily I managed to stay away from my cuticles for the most part because my guess is that this would flood them. It is a really pretty color though, and I'm willing to deal with the formula. When I was wandering through Ulta I found a bottle of For Audrey hanging out with the Electropop collection, and looking at the two next to each other they are very similar, but Mint Condition has more blue to it.

Ulta Mint Condition retails for $6 at Ulta.com and at Ulta stores.

Zoya Shawn

In late December/ early January Zoya was having a promotion where you could get two bottles of polish for free, you just had to pay for shipping. I had never tried Zoya before but I had heard great things about them and I had seen a lot of colors that I liked. I ended up picking Shawn and Yara. The first of the two that I'm going to show you is Shawn.

Shawn is described as "Warm, mossy yellow-toned medium green cream with olive undertones." I really love it, and it definitely fits me because I love earth toned colors and that's pretty much all that I wear. And as much as I love glitters, I love the way a nice creme looks. 

With Flash

This is two coats of Shawn with a coat of Sally Hansen Dries Instantly top coat. Application was great as the formula and brush were both east to work with, I think I had minimal to no cleanup. It dries fairly quickly but I don't think I was patent enough because...

Bubbles! I blame this on myself though, not the polish. Sometimes I'm just too impatient. Overall I really love this polish, it's such a me color, I haven't been able to stop staring at my nails. I was going to do a wear test for this but I accidentally got red nail polish on some of my nails and it's really bothering me, so I'm going to move on to Yara next!


Zoya Shawn retails for $8 and can be found at Zoya.com

Julep Hayden

Hayden is the final nail polish I received in my Julep Maven box (not including the Fast Dry Topcoat). I was really excited about this one and it did not disappoint! It is simply described as "neon peach" which I think is very accurate. Hayden is a great color for spring and summer, and it makes my hands look tan (which isn't as noticeable in the pictures)!

Sunlight

This is two coats of Julep Hayden, no top coat. This formula was a bit thicker than Leah and Megan but it wasn't too difficult to work with.

Sunlight

Please excuse the shadow from the window screen in the last picture, and the fact that I smudged my index finger after I applied the matte top coat. Hayden is still pretty matte, but there's nothing really special about the matte version, unlike with Megan. Overall I really loved this color and I can't wait to wear it this summer!

Julep Hayden retails for $14 at Julep.com