Bobbing for Baubles

Hello lovely people!  Today will be the last of my Essie holiday collection posts!  Sad face.  I love Essie so much.

Here is Bobbing for Baubles, a lovely dark teal.  In the bottle it looks distinctly more blue, and to me teal has more green in it.  But I've noticed that Essie colors dry a shade or two darker than what you see in the bottle.  Once it dried, I thought about it for a minute and came to the conclusion that Sonia Kashuk's Taunting Teal was exactly the same color.  Obviously, there are differences in formula and maybe a hair's difference in actual shad,. but to my eye it looked the same.

Bobbing for Baubles did last a good long while tho.  Nails actually broke and there was no damage to the polish aside from looking a little jagged.  There were no chips or fading, I actually got bored with it before it started to show signs of wear.  I did use a liquid quick dry oil on it and I've noticed that when I use it, there are what appears to be scratches on the surface of the top coat, like when your phone or eye glasses get scratches.  It was very distracting.  So I might refrain from using it unless I'm in a huge hurry.

Indoors

In the shade

In direct sunlight

Full sized bottles of Essie Bobbing for Baubles retail for $8 US

Taunting Teal

I think Sunday posts are my favorite.  I know I post sporadically throughout the week, but I always post on Sundays.  This and a nice glass of wine is a perfect way to end/start my week.

Anyway, today I bring you a new (to me, anyway) line that I haven't seen really anything about on any of the other blogs I read.  Maybe I've just missed the postings.  This is my first purchase from the Sonia Kashuk line of nail lacquers.  I've used her make up brushes for years and have been very happy with them, I'm a repeat customer.  I even have the brush set she did for Breast Cancer Awareness a couple years back.  She produces a quality product at a very affordable price.  And her polishes are no different!

Taunting Teal is from the fall line, so it fits with my holiday police posting habits.  This color is described as "the perfect mix of blue and green to add a hint of deep color to your fall line-up." In the bottle, yes that seems to be true; however, on my nails it came out much darker than what was in the bottle.  The formula though, is ah-mazing.  It applied completely opaque with no bald spots, streaking, or drag in two coats, it was a smooth creme that was shiny, and it lasted on my nails for five (that's right, 5) days.  It probably would have lasted longer if I hadn't picked at it when I noticed that my actual nail was starting to peel.  


Upside: great polish for affordable price.  Downside: only ten shades in the entire collection available for retail at the moment.

In direct sunlight, it looks the same as in the bottle

In the shade, natural light

Under artificial light, it looks much darker, almost black.

So after a couple days I got bored and an order I had been expecting had come in while I had this on, so I did this:

These were both colors I already had, but I got a dotting tool and was super excited to use it.  The brown is Sally Hansen Commander in Chic and the white is Sally Hansen White Out.  When I looked at it more closely in direct sunlight and at work, Commander In Chic made the green in the teal come out more, and White Out made it look darker blue.  I admit, I need work on the dotting technique, but this was pretty good for a first try. 


 I did this in homage to a new scarf I got (feel free to add extra fancy emphasis to that sentence), which I unfortunately don't have a picture of.  But I do have a picture of my latest haul!

China Glaze: For Audrey, Urban-Night, and Brownstone

Essie: Winter Cube (Size Matters,Cocktail Bling, Bangle Jangle, and Bobbing for Baubles)

Sally Hansen Color Quick pen in Gold Chrome

and my new dotting tool.

Sonia Kashuk Taunting Teal  retails for $4.99 US plus sales tax.  I found mine at my local Target.

Above is a link to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure website and <= is another one if you don't want to scroll up.  =)