Monday, August 23, 2010

Essie Fall 2010 Collection

Fall is almost here... I'm getting excited! These colors are super appropriate for fall.


In Stitches. This is a medium rose mauve creme. Soft, muted, maybe even a little... dated. My mom had carpet and some decorations this color when I was growing up, so it brings back happy memories, but I can't say it's really modern looking! It's along the lines of Eyeko Tea Rose Polish or Diamond Cosmetics Smoky Rose to give you something to compare it to.

Limited Addiction. Super dramatic glossy sexy blue-based red creme. Wow. It is very rare for me to pick a red as my favorite color in a collection, but this is just too gorgeous. It's sort of a cherry red bordering on blood red. A little darker and deeper than the reds I tend to like, but it's so striking and bold that it was love at first sight. It's a creme, but it has that deep, glassy jelly look, though I can't call it a true jelly. My pictures don't do this justice, you have to see this one in person. Smoking hot.

Merino Cool. Purple-grey. This seems to be the new 'it' color and frankly, that's a-okay with me cause I love these types of colors. This isn't totally unique but it's still beautiful. It looks darker in my picture than it seems in real life and I'm not sure why because sunlight usually has the opposite effect on my pictures. It's a little like OPI Parlez-Vous OPI or Confetti Moonstruck.


Sew Psyched. Muted grey-green with very subtle silver shimmer. Almost a secret shimmer, lends a softened and almost dusty finish to the polish. This seems really similar to Rescue Beauty Lounge Diddy Mow, but I haven't taken out my bottle to compare. If you're looking for a cheaper alternative, though, this would do nicely.

Little Brown Dress. Deep, dark coffee brown creme. Glorious. Super dark and vampy. A little different than plain black- though this isn't quite as dark as pure black. It's not as dark as Lippmann Maneater but it's darker than Essie Chocolate Kisses. A little closer to Zoya Angelina but a bit lighter. I love this color for fall, dark chocolate goodness!


Velvet Voyeur. Very dark purple creme. This is almost what I'd consider to be eggplant, but it's a little redder than true eggplant. It's a dark purple wine or perhaps a brown-toned purple. Very dark at two coats but quite different looking at only one coat. If you can apply this carefully enough at one coat you'll get two totally different looks out of it. I was sloppy so I did two here and it's near-black but still purple. Mmm, vampy.

The formula on these was excellent. Lately Essie's formula seems to be getting thinner and thinner, almost too watery, but the texture of these is back to normal. Thin-medium. I find the thicker formula of these much easier to control, especially combined with the thin brushes (which are also back to normal, not super thin like last fall/winter). I had no problems applying these at all. The only one that wasn't perfect was Merino Cool which seemed runny and thinner than the others so I had to do three coats. All the rest are two coats, no basecoat, no topcoat. Very rich and pigmented.

I'm digging this collection. It is perfectly 'fall'. The only color I'm not in love with is In Stitches, but the rest are perfect. Not extremely exciting or super unique, but they're all colors I love wearing and they're all really pretty. I love the drama in this collection- lots of vampy and dramatic shades- blood red, eggplant, dark coffee... Then you have the ever-popular grey/purple shade and a muted green, seeing more and more of these lately but that's fine with me! No complaints here, formula and colors are both making me happy. In fact, I'm about to go put on Limited Addiction...

(These were sent to me for review.)

25 comments:

  1. I love the red! It's so bold! Not to mention Velvet Voyeur.....yum!

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  2. Essie has been so boring lately. I'm glad to see they stepped up their game for fall. I can't wait to get my paws on a few of these polishes!

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  3. I was waiting on your review!
    I had my eye on Sew Psyched but I wanted to see your swatches first.

    I'm in love with Limited Addiction, Sew Psyched, and Little Brown Dress...*drools*

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  4. Velvet Voyeur
    Limited Addiction
    Little Brown Dress

    MINE!

    Gorgeous swatches, thank you!

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  5. I love all these colors....but on your nails...Your nails, the application techniques, everything makes any color look Absolutely Fantastic!! Thanks as always for lovely swatches..

    p.s: Nope, I am not some creepy person, with weird Fetish..lol!!

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  6. ah...I can feel the leaves starting to fall!

    Thanks for the swatches!

    I'm oddly attracted to In Stitches - I think it's just cuz I don't own anything like it. The darks are just that - dark. The greyish colours, I've seen (and tend to look just bleh on me, even though I keep trying to like them). Limited Edition seems like lots of colours I see around.

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  7. I haven't seen anything here that would make me regret not buying Essie due to the fact their parent company tests on animals,

    but Scrangie, wow. your application is stunning. You make even the most boring of polishes look good.

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  8. I like the red! Also like the brown. :-)

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  9. Love the swatches! I think I will end up getting merino cool and sew psyched!

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  10. Limited Addiction - LOVE the name AND the color! That is one HOT red!!

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  11. I seriously LOVE your blog!! Your swatches are awesome and I always always find new lemmings here! thank you!! :D

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  12. Merino Cool and Sew Psyched are the two I love. Limited Addiction is one gorgeous red. Really hot looking. I can picture Marilyn Monroe with this on her fingers and toes. Or me typing away commenting on blogs!

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  13. Love this makeup. Darn I wished I'd checked your blog before I picked out my colors. I won OverallBeauty minerals from a blog whose name I don't remember. I picked out 2 brown shades, 1 deep blue and 1 highlight shade. Can't wait to get them. I almost ordered a few of the shades you used. Darn again!

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  14. mmm I actually loooooove In Stitched. How does Merino Cool compare to last year's Chinchilly? It looks a little darker and more purple, but should I both to get Merino Cool if I have Chinchilly? Thanks!

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  15. I think I'll be getting all of them except In Stitches (because it does seem a little granny) and Sew Psyched (because I already have Diddy Mow). I'm kind of bummed about Sew Psyched. I thought it would be a similar finish to Demure Vixen - based on the promo pics, it seems like a grey-green with a bronze flash, but... not so much, I guess.

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  16. I just ordered the mini collection because of your gorgeous pictures. Thanks :)

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  17. Essie's been popping out some funky colors lately, and I like it!!! Limited Addiction and Sew Psyched are wonderful!

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  18. Delicious. I love 'em all except grandma.

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  19. Wow .... In Stitches, Merino cool and Sew psyched are looking gorgeous. I want them - now! =D

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