This is only a small portion of the line. It took about an hour and a half of waiting to get to the poll. So, I did what any good nail blogger would do - change my polish!
This is Essie Beach Bum Blu. It's more metallic than I was expecting! Sometimes I have trouble with Essies being streaky, but this one was really nice. Almost a one-coater, really, but it looked better, and with a deeper color, with two coats.
Over that, I used two coats of KB Shimmer Shipwrecked. I liked how the blue jelly base softened the metallic shine of the Essie, but one coat hardly delivered any glitter at all. I used the dabbing method to get enough glitter to distribute all over the nail.
It's a pretty glitter! A little more green-leaning in person, which I didn't expect.
I also discovered that even with a glue base, I had some trouble peeling this mani off, and I believe it's because I didn't use a top coat. I forgot to bring one! I've experienced this before with glue - the topcoat makes the polish sturdier, I think, and it comes off so much more easily when it's time to peel.
Are you using a glue base? Do you use topcoat with it?
