Branching out- China Glaze Elephant Walk

Yes, I KNOW it's from last year, and yes, I KNOW it's been swatched to high heaven, but I am trying to sample all my unused polishes, even to wearing those I wouldn't look twice at before. EW was an impulse buy, perhaps because everyone was raving about the "green shimmer" or something. Well, it is a medium gray and it  does have a greenish cast, and a lovely faint shimmer as well. Perfect in two coats. I wore it a day then added Jessica Chilled Chambord (another untried- burgundy shimmer!) for spots. Jury is out, but it's OK, just not ME. Dazzle Dry over.

Jessica Pumpkin Delight- Swatched

Halogen light

This beauty is a true chameleon. Like most very foily polishes, there is very little color to the base, just a mass of glittery particles that took me three coats to cover completely- better application might have needed 2. It's difficult to say what the true color is, because it changes with every hand movement and lighting change. Inside in halogen lighting, it's a deep red-pink-copper with gold, green and pink sparkles. In daylight it's much lighter and more golden. Then there's the duochrome effect, red copper to gold to even a bit of green.  Application was easy, smooth with one layer of topcoat.

Natural light

NOTD Jessica Sunshine with Utopia Summer Sparkle

Just picked up a few Jessica polishes from TJMaxx in boxes of five for $5.99. Unreal, right, considering they sell for $6 each. The first one I wanted to try was the lovely green gold glassfleck called Sunshine. The color to me is more pea soup than sunshine, but the tiny pink and green flecks in the metallic gold base seriously reminded me of Deborah Lippmann shimmers. Seeing as this seems to be a more fall color, I spiced it up with a single coat of Utopia's Summer Sparkle, a hodge podge of bright pastel matte glitters with heavy pinch of small holo glitters. Very topcoat hungry, this glitter, Gelous and two layers of Poshe to smooth.