{"id":1547,"date":"2013-12-01T19:16:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T00:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gearbunny.net\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2013-12-01T19:16:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T00:16:16","slug":"essie-lots-of-lux-belugaria-swatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/makeup\/essie-lots-of-lux-belugaria-swatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Essie Lots of Lux and Belugaria Swatches, Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

One reason I enjoy the winter holidays is that lots of fancy nail polishes hit the stores!\u00a0 I’m always a fan of glittery, colorful, and festive shades.\u00a0 Today when I was in Target I picked up two new colors from Essie’s Holiday 2013 Encrusted Treasures collection.<\/p>\n

Essie’s website describes Lots of Lux as a “shimmering blue lapis lazuli lacquer with a sleek matte finish.”\u00a0 However I noticed a distinctly sandy, not matte, finish.\u00a0 The strong texture complements the particles of royal blue, green and gold hiding in this polish.\u00a0 Below I used two coats, and no topcoat (which would negate the sandy finish).\u00a0 Two coats provided plenty of coverage as this is a thick (but manageable) polish.\u00a0 A word to the wise – be sure to wear a base coat!\u00a0 The blue is highly pigmented and will stain your nails.\u00a0\u00a0 I really liked this and will be wearing it during the holidays and beyond.<\/p>\n

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The second polish, Belugaria, is far from dazzling.\u00a0 It consists of a black creme base with hexagonal silver hologram glitter.\u00a0 What I didn’t understand is the spotty, caviar-like texture.\u00a0 It’s very thick – here I’m wearing two coats.\u00a0 It built up unevenly on my nails and just looked wrong.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately I bought Belugaria without reading any online reviews first, and it looks like it’s been universally panned.\u00a0 I enjoyed Lots of Lux however.\u00a0 Have you picked up any Encrusted Treasures polishes this holiday season?<\/p>\n

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~ Allison ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One reason I enjoy the winter holidays is that lots of fancy nail polishes hit the stores!\u00a0 I’m always a fan of glittery, colorful, and festive shades.\u00a0 Today when I was in Target I picked up two new colors from Essie’s Holiday 2013 Encrusted Treasures collection. Essie’s website describes Lots of Lux as a “shimmering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[60,21,152,167,142,151,179,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}