Review and swatches: Essence – Black and White TE (nail polishes)Opis in ocena: Essence – Black and White TE (laki)

New Essence Black and White Trend Edition is already in the stores. And as the name suggests, everything consists of two colors – black and white.

Collection includes: white and black eyeshadow, duo white and black eye pencil, black and white lip pencil, eyelashes, black and white nail stickers, nail file and last but not least black, white and “holographic” polish.

I bought all three polishes just out of curiosity. I wondered what is Soft touch finish and how does a white holographic top coat look like (I was skeptic from the start). :silly:

White Hype is completely white polish. Application was troublesome … like with almost all completely white polishes. But second coat covers up all the mistakes we made with the first one.
Soft Touch finish? The closest comparison would be “plastic” finish – neither matte or glossy. Finish that I personally love. Problem was that polish is not fast to dry and I could not use top coat to speed up the drying time as that would ruin the finish. :hmm:

“Chalky” white color does not look very attractive on me – my skin suddenly looked few shades darker when compared to all that snow white color coming from the polish. :silly:

Black Out is total opposite of White Hype polish. Raven black shade is easy to apply (just make sure you have enough of polish on the brush). One coat is enough for full coverage. I used two coats … habit I guess. This is how I imagine Illamasqua Scorn looks like … so that is one polish less on my WL. :silly:

Make Me Holo has totally inappropriate name since this top coat has absolutely nothing in common with holographic finish. The closest relative would be CND effects with pearl finish as this is yellowish white base with lots of blues shimmer.

First of I applied Make Me Holo top coat over White Hype. I immediately disliked the result – yellowish white base with blue shimmer is so not my thing.

But I love the combo of Black Out base and Make Me Holo top coat. What is not to like in this gorgeous blue shade.

Of course I wanted to know if black and white shade could be used as stamping polishes. Here is the result of stamping Black Out + H23 IP over White Hype:

If image looks uncompleted it is due to the fact that base polish was still not completely dry (I took ages for this polish to dry) so I had to transfer image really carefully. :blush:

White Hype is also good for stamping. This time I used only one layer of Black Out … to speed up the drying time. But I was still to quick to stamp over it and on top of it tiny bubbles emerged – I guess I used to thick coat. :roll:

And in case anybody is wondering – Make Me Holo top coat can also be used for stamping.

Here is a rose for Saša who kindly delivered the polishes to me. :rose:

Do you already own any of the polishes from Black and White TE? Which one is the most tempting for you?

Nova Essence TE se imenuje Black and White in kot nam to pove že ime, jo sestavljata le dve barvi – bela in črna.

V kolekciji se tako nahajajo: bela in črna senčka, dvojni črno-bel svinčnik za oči, trepalnice, črn in bel svinčnik za ustnice, črno-bele nalepke za nohte, pilica ter črn, bel in “holo” lakec.

Vsi trije lakci so pristali pri meni zgolj iz radovednosti. Zanimalo me je namreč kaj je Soft touch finish ter kako izgleda bel holografski nadlak. :silly:

White Hype je popolnoma bel lak. Nanos je problematičen kot se za popolnoma bel lak spodobi, vendar druga plast skrije vse napakice, ki so ostale vidne po prvem nanosu. Če ste res zelo previdne (in profi) pri nanašanju, bi lahko uporabile tudi samo eno plast.

Finiš? Še najbolj je podoben “plastičnemu” finišu (ni ne mat ne svetleč), ki je meni osebno zelo ljub. Težava je v temu, ker se lak ne suši ravno hitro, nadlaka pa tudi nisem mogla uporabiti brez da bi prekrila finiš. :hmm:

“Edigs” bela barva na meni ne izgleda niti najmanj privlačno – koža postane na videz za par odtenkov temnejša ob vsej tej belini. :silly:

Black Out je popolno nasprotje White Hype odtenka. Globoka črna barva, ki se nanaša brez težav (pazite le, da imate zadosti laka na čopiču). Za popolno prekrivnost zadostuje že ena plast. Jaz sem uporabila dve le zaradi navade. Predstavljam si, da nekako takole izgleda Illamasqua Scorn, ki je na moji WL, tako da je Black Out potešil željo po črnem laku s plastičnim finišem. :silly:

Make Me Holo ima zelo neposrečeno ime. Nadlak namreč nima nič skupnega s holografskim finišem. Gre za podobno zadevo kot so CND effekti s perlastim finišem – v rumenkasto beli osnovi se nahaja zelo droben moder šimer.

Nadlak sem nanesla najprej čez White Hype. Me je kar zmrazilo, ko sem videla rezultat – rumenkasto bela baza z modrim šimrom definitivno ni zame.

Medtem ko mi je bil efekt čez Black Out všeč. Kot lahko vidite, pride ven krasna modra barva.

Seveda me je zanimalo tudi sta črn in bel lak primerna za konadiranje. Poglejmo si najprej kako se je obnesel Black Out skupaj z H23 IP čez White Hype:

Vzorec izgleda nedovršen, ker se lak ni in ni posušil, tako da sem vzorec previdno (ne premočno) odtisnila kar na napol suho podlago :blush:

Tudi White Hype se je izkazal pri konadiranju. Tokrat sem uporabila samo eno plast Black Out laka za bazo … da bi skrajšala čas sušenja. A sem še vedno bila malo prehitra + pojavilo se je nekaj mehurčkov  – predvidevam, da sem ponekod nanesla predebel sloj. :roll:

In če slučajno koga zanima – tudi Make Me Holo nadlak lahko uporabite za konadiranje.

Ena rožica za Sašo, ki mi je dostavila vse tri lakce. :rose:

Ste si že oz. si še boste omislile katerega izmed lakov iz Black and White kolekcije?