Essie Cocktail Bling and Orly Twilight

Hello gentle readers.

Today I have a lovely polish from Essie. This is part of their Winter 2011 collection. A beautiful, dirty slightly purple toned grey creme polish. This baby is edgy yet so ladylike. It is a shifter and a beguiler. Depending on what light I viewed this polish it was grey or dusty purple. Cocktail Bling looks grey in my photographs, even tones a little blue. I really enjoyed wearing this beauty. And I enjoyed it even more topped with Orly Twilight, a beautiful topper comprised of a barely purple toned clear jelly swimming with silvery microflakies that, in the sun flash and shift blue and pink and silver.

Essie Cocktail Bling

And both in the sunshine. Yummmm... Shimmah! Shimmah!

Essie Cocktail Bling is a beautiful formula and applied like a dream. It flows off the brush as it should, self levels and settles where it is placed. I didn't do much cleanup doing this manicure. I applied two coats then topped with with one coat of Orly Twilight, then Seche Vite. Dry time for both were really good and wear time was decent. I did my right ring finger an injustice and chipped my polish on that nail so I had to change it before I really wanted to.

Do you own either of these polishes? Think that you might? They are both loverly and, if you like grey and dusty purple and microflakies and shimmer, you might really enjoy these.

Thank you for coming by. Have a great day and may your polish never bubble.

Essie Cocktail Bling was purchased with a gift card provided by Apothica/Skincare Rx in exchange for hosting their link and logo.