Essie: Fashion Playground and Good as Gold

Hello!

Spring is finally here!  Well it's still cold but at least the snow has melted and it's mostly nice and sunny.  I have Essie's Fashion Playground to share with you today.  I own a lot of mint greens, sometimes I wonder if I'm on the search for the perfect mint green.  I'm not sure if I found it but I'm pretty happy with this one.

When Essie's Fashion Playground first came out, I thought I could do without this colour.  I started seeing Fashion Playground on instagram and it looked pretty!  I guess in some cases, curse instagram for making me so weak!  Anyway, I started to pay more attention to reviews and reach that the formula wasn't that great but the colour was nice.  I decided to give it a try anyways.

Thoughts

Part of the reviews I read said the formula was very thin.  My bottle is actually quite thick.  I think the colour was good enough after two coats but I noticed that my messy application would have required me another layer to even it out.  I'll have to wear this again to see how it applies.  My coats were my regular coats.  I didn't thin out the brush too much because sometimes it results in a streaky/bumpy application.  

I realized with my first coat, I could get some coats to be fine and another ones were a little streaky.  It wasn't the same streakiness I find with other Essie products.  So I thought I would mention that.

Overall, I really love this colour! I'm happy that I ended up buying it because it's pretty and I do notice the subtle shimmer. It's not as obvious as it is on the bottle but it's pretty enough.

Shoppers was having a BOGO free polish sale for three hours on Friday, April 25.  I kind of bought this earlier on nailpolishcanada.com.  I kind of wish I had waited but this was a surprise sale that I've noticed for the first time, so I wouldn't have been able to expect/predict it.  

Essie Fashion Playground

Oh the shimmer

Breakdown
Basecoat: Essie First Base
Colour layer: Essie Fashion Playground (3 coats) and Good as Gold (ring finger)
Topcoat:  Essie Good to Go

Brush shot

No Top coat

No Top coat

No Top coat

With added dots

I saw another picture somewhere on the internet with the accent as dots by using Good as Gold.  Since I had Good as Gold, I decided to give it a try.  The picture I saw ended to be in matte but I left it as shiny.  I'm sure I can not credit the post because I forgot where I saw it.  I just remember it looked nice :)

My dots aren't as nice as the picture I saw though.  

Good as Gold

Good as Gold

With top coat

With topcoat

I bought Fashion Playground on nailpolishcanada.com for $8.95 (they increased their price by $1 but it's free shipping) for 13.5mL.  I bought Good as Gold a while ago but it must be from either Shoppers or Wal-mart.  I realized how great these Mirror Metallics were very good for stamping.