Essence Glow & Care luminous nail polish in 06 berry caring

I have here a nail polish from the new Essence line. It came in the regular assortment with the latest product update. 

This new nail polish line is supposed to strengthen and protect the nails. It creates a soft glow with light shimmer effect and contains kukui oil.

I don't believe in effects of strengthening, I usually buy nail polishes because of the colour, but if this kukui oil actually works, then so much better.

The nail polish has a big brush, like all the essence nail polishes and I'm used to it, but somehow the application wasn't as smooth as I expected. I didn't have the control over the brush and I couldn’t make straight lines. But maybe it was just a bad day to colour my nails.

The colour is (oh, I'm so bad at describing colours) a violet with tiny pink shimmer. On the nails is fairly dark.

About the longevity I can't tell you much. It last one day on me without chipping, just like any other nail polish. 

Have a great day!

What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 57

The Virgin Blue is the compelling story of two women, born four centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them. Ella Turner does her best to fit in to the small, close-knit community of Lisle-sur-Tarn. She even changes her name back to Tournier, and knocks the rust off her high school French. But it is all in vain. Isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, which leads to her encounter with the town's wolfish librarian. Isabelle du Moulin, known as Le Rousse due to her fiery red hair, is tormented and shunned in the village - suspected of witchcraft and reviled for her association with the Virgin Mary. Falling pregnant, she is forced to marry into the ruling family: the Tourniers. Tormentor becomes husband, and a shocking fate awaits her. Plagued by the colour blue, Ella is haunted by parallels with the past, and by her recurring dream. Then one morning she wakes up to discover that her hair is turning inexplicably red.

I've read two books by Tracy Chevalier so far, Remarkable Creatures and Falling Angels, and found them interesting, all in all good books. But The Virgin Blue was a disappointment. From the half way onward I just wanted it to end. The connection between the past and the present wasn't very credible and if the past story was bearable I can't say that for the story that happens in the present. Really, Ella's husband all of the sudden has a lot of flaws and the new man is just perfect for her. Blah.

The nail polish is also a small disappointment. Now it look like it is leaning towards violet, but it was blue originally. You see the difference between the cap of the nail polish and the nail polish? Nail polish should look like the colour of the cap, but it's not. The difference may be small, but I can see it. Other than that, nothing special. An ok application, two coats for decent coverage, a base and a top coat. Nail polish is from Essence, with the name Sure Azure. See, even the name suggest that it was blue, but now, I'm not so sure (o look, I made a pun :) )

Have a great day!

What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 56

According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon--both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle--are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist.

I've read two books by Gaiman and none by Pratchett, so I don't know his style, but I can see the humor in this work is somehow similar like in Neverwhere, let's say. I like this kind of humour and this book goes well with my taste.

The nail polish is very old, but the colour is perfect and even the application is still ok. I'd say the colour is called petroleum, a dark green with a hint of blue. The name of this polish is Trendsetter and is from essence, a really old line, like I said.

Have a great day!