Swatches - Essence ~ Party Princess, Studio M - Volcanic

I was originally just going to swatch Volcanic by Studio M but I smudged my middle finger and added the glitter from Essence on top to avoid re-doing it. So it's swatches of both, but the Essence is on my middle fingers only.

I'm soooo excited about this color. Holy moly, is it bright! It's a neon orange pink, mostly a pink-ish color, with very unique undertones that really come out in low light and with the flash on a camera. It's GORGEOUS. I didn't realize how pretty it was. I think I got a bad bottle though cause it looks a bit funky and it applied pretty crappy. (Again, my other Studio M's aren't like that I think someone may have opened it in store. -_-)

Volcanic turned out to be a matte jelly like finish. Definetley matte at the very least.

The Essence is so-so. Don't love it, don't hate it. At least it distracted from the smudges. I'd like to try it over darker colors.

I realize these are more summer nails but I wasn't able to buy any new polish for the past 4 months or so, and was really wanting some neons. Definetley summer nails, though!

NEON ALL THE NAILS.

Essence - Party Princess on top of Studio M - Volcanic

Studio M - Volcanic by itself.

Dang. My nails have never been this long. By now
they would be driving me crazy. (Usually!)

You can kind of see the matte finish here a little even though
I used a top coat.

First attempt at Watermelon nails

So I tried watermelon nails. I HATE my black polish, it's so goopy. So some of the black seeds ended up with very minor strings coming off of them. I decided to sponge on the contrasting color instead of paint, and I liked how it turned out I'm just going to do a few things differently next time. (Perhaps get a better white and black polish for starters--the white is so thin and crap it took on the green under it, and what is SUPPOSED to be white is more of a lime green-ish yellow. Bah.) I didn't hate it though, but it has a lot of potential for next time. Practice makes perfect, right?

I used the same colors, but did an accent nail on both hands for my ring finger. I also wish I made less black seeds, maybe 3 tops would have made it more realistically watermelon like. Next time I'm going to try using a second darker green as well and attempt to make the green rind look better.

Surprisingly my non dominant hand looked best.