Happy Labor Day! Last night I decided I wanted to use a blue polish for today and I recently got two new Essie polishes that I wanted to try a glitter gradient with, Boxer Shorts and Stroke of Brilliance! I saw Boxer Shorts in Essie's Fall Yogaga collection but we never got this collection at Ulta so I looked for it at Walgreens. When I went to pick up some Sinful Colors polishes for $.99 the other day I forgot to look for it, but I saw the display! I went to two other Walgreens and they didn't have it so I went back to my original Walgreens and they had ONE LEFT! The really sweet lady at the register also let me use dollar off coupons for it and Stroke of Brilliance, which is Essie's newest luxeeffects color!
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| Essie Boxer Shorts and Stroke of Brilliance |
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| Something I like about Essies from Walgreens, they have the name of the color on top! The name is on the bottom of the ones at Ulta. |
Sorry for the shady pictures, it's raining here today! Anyway, I was so happy to get Boxer Shorts because it is a really unique color to my collection. It is described by Essie as a blue, but it's not a blue, and it's not a purple. It's a blurple! Kind of a periwinkle color as well! So pretty and the application was very creamy and smooth! The formula was perfect! Stroke of Brilliance is a very pretty and unique deeper blue glitter with small and larger glitters. These two colors look like they were meant for each other so I decided to try my first glitter gradient with them! A glitter gradient is when you use any base color and only cover part of your nail with glitter, like the glitter is fading into the color. Really pretty and I believe my first attempt was a success!
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| Love this! |
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| I applied a coat of Glitter Food over the glitter so it looks like it is under glass and is really smooth! |
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| Made for each other!:) |
I love this manicure so much and it was so fast and easy to do! Just wait until your base color is dry and then add the glitter from the tip of your nail downwards. I applied one coat of Glitter Food by nail Pattern Boldness over the glitter and then finished it off with Butter London's topcoat. Below I added some comparison shots of other colors I have to Boxer Shorts. None of them were the same, even if they look close they were all different!
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| Essie Play Date and Boxer Shorts. |
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| Zoya Yummy and Essie Boxer Shorts. |
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| Essie Bikini So Teeny and Boxer Shorts. |
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| Essie She's Picture Perfect and Boxer Shorts. This one looks really close in the picture but She's Picture Perfect is way more purple with some pink in it. |
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Have a great Labor Day!
3 comments:
This looks so awesome! You're making me wish I had Boxer Shorts.
Thank you!! I love it! I think it's a must have color!
cute!!!!!! i love the glitter gradient, i have been wanting to try it :)
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