
This is Essence Hard to Resist, a beautiful shimmery midnight blue with a touch of turquoise, just a touch. It's wonderfully pigmented and easy to apply. This is two coats but I could have got away with just one (I'm a habitual two coater). I'm so happy we can get these Essence polishes in Australia now. The bottles are small but oh so affordable and I love the square brushes. I only have six Essence polishes but I'm really pleased with them all. The formula is great. The only problem is they seem to be too popular, they sell out too quickly! I'm sure I'm driving my husband crazy with my need to check the shelves for new stock every time we go to the shops.


Sorry about the messy edges but I don't paint as well with my left hand. I photographed my right hand though because I have a different base polish on my left. Both with Kleancolor Blue-eyed Girl but different blue underwear. What I'm wearing on my left hand and why it's different is a long story so I'll save it for another post but this polish combination on my right hand has worn well. I'm now up to day six without any chips or tip wear. Interestingly though I now have bad shrinkage showing with cracks down the sides and across the base of the nail polish but only on my right hand. It started showing yesterday and has visibly progressed today. My left hand has no shrinkage at all so something to do with the combination of Essence Hard to Resist, Kleancolor Blue-eyed Girl and Essie Good to Go is still at work shrinking away from the edges but the Kleancolor and Essie have no such problem on my left hand over a different blue.
I'll be taking this lot off tomorrow. Not looking forward to removing this glitter. I use the foil method to soak off glitter polish, and lightly file the surface of the top coat first to help with the soaking process, but I expect the thickness of this layering will be hard to remove.

Essence Hard to Resist is part of the Essence Colour & Go polish line available from Target in Australia.
No such luck with Kleancolor, I had to order my Blue-eyed Girl from the US.
The essence display is always empty at my local Target. Just a few lonely polishes left. Gorgeous layering!
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