Essence Bella and Edward

I hope you're enjoying your Friday! Let's think of today as Flashback Friday. I'm wearing a polish I originally posted about back in September. Normally, I don't blog about swatches twice, but I think this combination warrants a second look. Plus, my nail photography skills have improved, so better swatches this time around.

These two polishes are part of the Essence Nail Art Twins Collection. A base color and glitter topper are paired together and named after famous couples. They have pairs such as Bonnie and Clyde, Chuck and Blair, and Carrie and Mr. Big, plus several others. This particular pair is Bella and Edward, from the Twilight novels/movies. Even if you dislike them, don't let that bias you against this gorgeous combination.

Bella is a lovely one coat teal creme with perfect application. Edward is an amazing glitter polish with silver and teal hex glitter, teal square glitter, and small holo glitter. I'm wearing one coat of each. This combination is without a doubt one of my favorites. I've been wearing it since Tuesday and plan to remove it tonight, though I honestly don't want to despite the tip wear.

Essence Nail Art Twins are available in Europe. Given I'm not located in that part of the world, I am unsure of which stores carry Essence in Europe, but their website has a store locator for you. I'm also unsure how available the collection currently is. If someone knows, please let me know. Thank you!

Combining Neon, Purple & Glitter

Last week's Monday Nail Art Challenge on PAA was Crackle. This polish effect has definitely grown on me. When crackle first hit the polish world, I disliked the look. It wasn't until I received a free black crackle that I fell in love with the uniqueness of it.

I used Milani Fresh Teal as a base coat. Fresh Teal is a lovely neon one coat polish. Next I layered on Finger Paints Purple Crackle. It cracked nicely, as you can see. I'm a big fan of accent nails, so I just had to add some glitter to my index finger. I chose Essence Edward. I love Edward so much. Such a pretty glitter.

What do you think of crackle polishes?

Essence Twins Bella and Edward

I was lucky enough to win a set of Essence Nail Art Twins from Traci. I received them in the mail yesterday and was in love. I had to try them out. So last night I painted them on. They are so beautiful in person!

Bella is just gorgeous! A lovely blue/green shade of polish. It only took one coat to be opaque on most of my nails.

Then I added Edward. This is just one coat. So much glitter for one coat. There looks to be three sizes of glitter. Large squares, and two sizes of round glitter. So beautiful. I'm absolutely in love with it.

If you can get your hands on these two, they are absolutely worth owning.

Veering off the polish road, tonight is the finale of True Blood. Instead of revisiting my True Blood nail art, I decided to keep Twilight on my fingers and break out my Eric Northman necklace. I thought I'd share, for anybody that loves True Blood too.