Favorite Essie Shades

I really love this dainty collage! It inspired me to post this entry about one of my favorite nail polish brands. I discovered Essie when the Nail Spa in Shangri-la Mall opened years ago. My friends and I started to frequent the place almost soon after they opened. I even had a regular (suki) nail tech there who has since decided to move to another nail salon. 

Back then, I found the brand expensive. But my nail tech assured me it was worth the P60 upgrade so I agreed. She was right. Although I was on the computer everyday, 5 days a week in the office, my nail polish remained in tact until I had to go back to the salon for my next appointment around 2 weeks later. The only issue I had was the nail re-growth. If not for that, nobody would think that the color was 2 weeks old. Impressed, totally! Since then, I always asked for Essie. 

But I have this habit of sticking to what I'm used to. So I kept using the same shades alternately. They're the ones I included in the collage above. 

Mademoiselle, Ballet Slippers, Bordeaux (the red one), Fiji, Pink A Boo. It took sometime before I began to experiment and try out their many other shades. But these are the ones I will always go back to. At close to P500 a pop, yes these are quite steeply-priced. But you know what they say, you get what you pay for. I definitely get my money's worth everytime I choose Essie!