Swatches, review & nail art Essence Trend Edition Hello Autumn

Essence just came out with their new trend edition called "Hello Autumn".

With this collection Essence welcomes the autumn season with its beautiful golden sunshine and rustling leaves.

BeautiFALL!

The nail lacquers featured in this collection are all thermo nail polish and change color depending on the temperature.

But how many lacquers are in this collection?

The blog promo I received and the website as well show 5 lacquers.

So far I could only get my hands on 4 and haven't seen the 5th one anywhere.

The 4 lacquers I could get, are:

- 01 beauti-FALL red

- 02 meet my pumpkin

- 03 charlie seen in green

- 04 keep calm & go for a walk

And this would be the 5th lacquer:

- 05 autumn & the city

Well, you know me, if I can get my hands on the 5th lacquer anytime, I will update this post with it.

Review

I'm finally starting to love a good thermo polish. Especially with long nails cause it gives a perfect French manicure without any trouble.

These nail lacquers are so perfect for the fall season; great fall colors and the color change like fall leaves couldn't be found better.

I'm starting with the review so you won't be shocked when seeing the swatches :D

I had a lot of trouble catching the color change on camera. It was there in real life but subtle.

I experienced that my body temperature was low and it was a cold day as well...leaving me with mostly the "cold" color.

Holding my hand under warm water and resting my tips at some ice did show a bigger color change.

In the swatches you will see a subtle color change around the tips which was just slightly more visible in real life.

Now, if the bigger color change can only be achieved by holding your hand in hot water or a bucket full of ice...it isn't a strong thermo but my problem is that I can't really tell for sure.

Leaving you with my experience, I do have to say that even this subtle color change and simply the fall colors itself make this a beautiful fall collection.

For me all 4 are keepers!

Application was easy and these creme polishes were opaque with 2 coats.

Swatches

01 beauti-FALL red

02 meet my pumpkin

03 charlie seen in green

04 keep calm & go for a walk

Nail art

The first fall nail art is a fact.

And I tried something new for you!

Material:

- White nail polish

- Nail art brush

- Nail polish in fall colors (I of course used this collection)

- Scotch tape also known as magic/removable tape

- Pen or pencil or marker

- Scissors (preferably small and used for crafting)

- Tweezers

- Topcoat

Step 1:

Start with applying a white nail polish on all the nails. 

Let it dry completely and use a topcoat to speed up the drying time.

Step 2:

Place some pieces of tape (10 if you're going to do all 10 nails) on a flat surface. 

The pieces of tape can be as big as you want but around nail size is most handy.

Use a pen to draw fall leaves on the pieces of tape.

To prevent smudging and to make cutting easy, place another piece of tape on top of the drawed ones.

Step 3:

Use the scissors to cut out the fall leaves. 

And place the fall leave like a sticker on your nails.

Step 4:

Get your polishes and the nail art brush.

Paint small fall leaves around the outline of your sticker.

Wait for it to completely dry!!!

Step 5:

Use the tweezers or your nails to remove the stickers from your nails.

Step 6:

Apply topcoat to seal your design.

Day 310) Nail art fall

Today another fall nail art.

Fall colors used:
- Maybelline Forever Strong Pro 720 Green Miracle (index)
- NYC 335 Red Melody (middle)
- NYC 002 Full Metal Jacket (ring)
- NYC 340 All of the lights (pinky)

I used the ring fnger as accent nail.
I sponged the three colors as base and painted gold simple fall leaves on top of it.
The accent nail is finished with a matte topcoat, the others got a shiny one.
The matte topcoat in combination with the gold overruled all the sponged colors (at least picture wise, in real life the colors are better shown).

Day 307) November Rain

It's November and when I hear November I always have to think about the Guns N' Roses song called "November Rain".
It sounds suitable for November as it's raining a lot here in November.
And not only 'water' rain...it also rains fall leaves (the last ones).
As I was thinking of this 'double' rain I wanted to translate it to a nice fall nail art.

I've only used a small dottingtool for this nail art to make two kinds of leaves and rain drops.
Here's a little tutorial for it:

 

 

 

The black circles are dots. The arrows show how you'll have to pull the polish with your dottingtool.