Review and swatches: Essence – Metallics Trend Edition (nail polishes)Opis in ocena: Essence – Metallics Trend Edition (laki)

Saša found all Essence Metallics TE magnetic polishes! :happy: :rose:

So I prepared Essence instructions, opened Maestra’s post about Nothing Else Metals polish + post on ARS forum and enthusiastically started to swatch the polishes.

I guess the fact that I had to remove polish more than 20 times tells you how successful I was. :silly:

First I had trouble getting really close to the polish … without touching it with magnet. And if I didn’t come really, rellay close, the effect was pathetic at best.

Then I had to learn how to rotate finger/magnet to spread the image all over the nail. Maestra and I debated that the problem could lie in my high nail curve, long nails and weak magnet. My little finger is short, not as curved as others and I had no problems with it.

I tried out all three patterns that can be made with Essence magnet … sometimes even on the same manicure. :silly:

Top coat was used over all polishes.

Nothing Else Metals is really interesting color – some kind of golden olive green. Pretty shade – with pattern or without. :wub:

Iron Goddess is nice brown color that gets gray highlights when you use the magnet.

Copper Rulez! is my favorite from Metallic TE. What a gorgeous shade! It looks like rainbow of fall colors trapped in brown base. Copper glitter/shimmer is the prevailing one. :stars:

Metal Battle is the only non magnetic polish. They named it “metallic nail polish”. It looked a lot like I Love My Jeans from Denim Wanted TE so I compared them.

The only difference is the color of shimmer – Metal Battle has blue one and I Love My Jeans green one.

Steel Me was hardest to work with, so I gave up and used Alessandro magnet at my middle finger. Uau – look at the effect! The only problem was that I used thicker layer of polish (you have to for Essence magnet to work at all) and Alessandro magnet worked to well and literally started to pull polish from my nails. :biggrin:

Price for polish: 2,19 EUR.

Price for magnet: 1,69 EUR.

Conclusion:

I recommend all four of Essence magnetic nail polishes. But since Essence magnet is just too weak you can either:

• find suitable magnet at home;
• close you eyes, forget about steep price and buy one of the Alessandro magnetic polishes since their magnet is great.

Of course I’m talking to those of you with similar nail length and shape – those with shorter and more “flat” nails should have less problems.

Pros among us are excluded of course. :angel:

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And since we managed to get few extra polishes, Parokeets ladies decided to have small giveaway.

Rules:

• you have to be visible follower on our Google Friend Connect to enter this giveaway;
• fill out the bellow form;
• you can get one extra entry if you tweet about giveaway (link to the giveaway and @Parokeets are mandatory) or write about it on your blog (write URL to you blog if you posted about it on sidebar or blog post)
• there will be only one winner (if we don’t get a response in 48 hours after we send you email, the second picked will be contacted and given opportunity to receive the prize …)
• giveaway is International;
• computer program will pick the winner.

All products are new and sponsored by Parokeets ladies.

Giveaway will end on 08.11.2010 at midnight (GMT +1).

Giveaway is now CLOSED.

Saša je našla vse štiri magnetne lake iz zadnje Essence TE. :happy: :rose:

V soboto pa sem v Mullerju-BTC ujela še metalik lakec, ki je manjkal v zbirki. :w00t:

Pripravila sem si knjižico z navodili, odprla Maestrin post o Nothing Else Metals ter njena navodila na ARSu in se entuzijastično lotila swatchanja.

Če vam povem, da sem minimalno 20x morala odstraniti lak in začeti znova, sem vam verjetno povedala vse. :silly:

Najprej sem neštetokrat morala ponoviti manikuro, ker sem se z magnetom dotaknila laka in vse skupaj spacala. Magnet je namreč dobro deloval samo, če sem prišla res čisto, čisto blizu laku.

Potem sem potrebovala še kar nekaj poizkusov preden sem kolikor-toliko lepo rotirala magnet/noht, da sem dobila vzorček tudi ob strani nohta in ne le na sredini.

Z Maestro sva debatirali, da je očitno magnet prešibak za tiste, ki imamo daljšo in zelo ukrivljeno ploskev. Na mezinčku, ki je dokaj raven in kratek, namreč nisem imela nikakršnih težav.

Preizkusila sem vse tri vzorčke, ki jih je mogoče narediti z Essence magnetom … včasih kar na isti manikuri. :silly:

Pri vseh manikurah sem uporabila nadlak.

Nothing Else Metals je zelo zanimiva barva – nekakšna zlato olivna zelena. Odtenek, ki mi je všeč z vzorčki ali brez. :wub:

Iron Goddess je krasna rjava, ki se po uporabi magneta izmenjuje s sivkasto rjavo barvo.

Copper Rulez! je moj favorit iz Metallic TE. Kakšna prekrasna barva! Izgleda kot da bi bila v rjav lak ujeta mavrica jesenskih barv med katerimi  prevladujejo bakrene bleščice/šimer. :stars:

Metal Battle je edini lak v kolekciji, ki ni magneten. Poimenovali so ga “metallic nail polish”. Že na prvi pogled me je spomnil na I Love My Jeans iz Denim Wanted kolekcije, tako da sem ju takoj primerjala.

Edina razlika je v barvi šimra, ki je pri Metal Battle moder, pri I Love My Jeans pa zelen.

S Steel Me sem imela še največ težav, tako da sem pri sredincu obupala in uporabila kar Alessandro magnet. Uau – to pa je bil efekt! Edina težava je bila, da sem morala pri Essence magnetu uporabiti res veliko laka za normalno delovanje, Alessandro magnet pa je toliko močnejši, da je kar potegnil lak k magnetu … in to precej visoko. :biggrin:

Cena za lak: 2,19 EUR.

Cena za magnet: 1,69 EUR.

Zaključek:

Priporočam vse štiri Essence magnetne lake. Vendar je Essence magnet prešibak, tako da:

• ali najdite doma primeren magnet;
• ali pa zamižite, odmislite ceno in si kupite katerega izmed Alessandro magnetnih lakcev, da dobite dober magnet.

Govorim seveda za vse, ki imate tako obliko in dolžino nohta kot jaz – tiste s krajšimi in manj zaobljenimi nohti boste verjetno imele manj težav. Profesionalke sem seveda izvzela iz enačbe. :angel:

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In ker smo uspele dobiti nekaj ekstra lakcev, smo se Parokeetke odločile, da naredimo manjši giveaway.

Pravila:

• sodelujejo lahko le vidni spremljevalci Parokeets bloga na Google Friend Connectu;
• izpolnite obrazec – polja označena z zvezdico so obvezna;
• dodaten vnos si lahko pridobite ali s twittanjem (obvezno poleg linka do giveawaya dodajte @Parokeets) ali z omembo giveawaya na vašem blogu (v temu primeru navedite URL bloga/posta);
• zmagovalec je le eden (če prvi izžrebani ne odgovori na elektronsko pošto v roku 48 ur po prejemu le-te, bomo kontaktirale drugo-uvrščenega …);
• giveaway je odprt za vse naše spremljevalce, ne glede na to na katerem kontinentu se nahajate;
• zmagovalca bo določil računalniški žreb.

Vsi izdelki so novi in sponzorirani s strani Parokeetk.

Giveaway se bo zaključil 08.11.2010 ob polnoči.

Giveaway je končan.