Essie Spring 2012 Collection Review, Swatches and Photos

Essie’s Spring 2012 collection has finally hit the shelves, as like the two years before I had to swatch these. I’m really loving the pastel colours that seem to be popular with most of the Spring collections this year. Though I’m attributing that to the fact that we never got much of a Spring nor Summer in Australia this season 🙁 So I’m feeling rather deprived.

But back to the polishes, I didn’t have any issues with formula, these applied fantastically! I really love A Crewed Interest thanks to how wearable it is, trying to decide what makeup products to bring with me on a big month long trip later this year and I feel like A Crewed Interest may be a winner! As always all swatches are 2 coats with no top coat.

A Crewed Interest

A peach crème polish that would really suit most lighter skin tones. Zoya’s Lulu and OPI’s My Daddy’s the King! are sheerer versions of this, this polish is very opaque.

Navigate Her

A soft pastel green crème polish, very suitable towards Spring. I can’t find anything close to this in my collection, so I’m deeming this a pretty unique shade. Not sure how I feel about it, it’s a lovely shade but I’m not sure what mood I’d need to be in to wear it.

Olé Caliente

A watermelon bright crème shade, it’s a great variation off the traditional red polish! To me it feels more innocent than a vampy red shade. China Glaze’s Make Some Noise and Essie’s Too Too Hot are similar shades.

Orange, It’s Obvious!

A blood orange crème shade with quite a bit of red in it. OPI’s Brights Powder is sheerer and has more yellow in it, OPI’s Flit a Bit contains less red.

To Buy Or Not To Buy

A lilac crème polish with just the slightly hint of shimmer, not noticeable from a distance unless you are up close to it. OPI’s Rumple’s Wiggin in slightly sheerer and China Glaze’s Sweet Hook contains more pink.

Tour De Finance

A hot magenta crème infused with gold micro shimmers that unfortunately does not show up at all in this photo. I think Hello Kitty’s Eva Pink (seems to only be available in Australia) is a darker version without the shimmers.