Advantages: It makes my nails look really healthy and shiny
Disadvantages: It takes about 5 minutes to dry

...I paid £8.50 for a 15ml bottle of Essie Ballet Slippers Varnish. I've used Essie nail polish before and I thought it gave fantastic results and made my nails look great. The Ballet slippers colour is great for someone who has pale skin. The varnish Goes on and stays on better than any other nail polish I have used. It doesn't chip easily, and continues to stay shiny and fresh looking for days. Essie has a variety of beautiful colours to choose from but this is defiantly my favourite. I prefer this colour because it's a subtle pale pink so it doesn't look over the top when I'm going out shopping. The Application is as follows... It's Very easy to do I recommend that you that you apply the varnish by painting a strip in the middle of the nail and then two strips at either side. I had to wait quiet a while to apply my second... Read review

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Advantages: Still has the durability of the other essie products
Disadvantages: colour and drying time

...So having recently confessed to an addiction to Nail varnish I’ve decided to carry on with my experience of the essie range and this time a negative experience with the Varnish. I’d recently bought myself a brand new dress for an evening function I’d been invited to and having found a suitable lipstick in my collection, set about finding a nail varnish. Now I’ve bought between 10 and 15 different bottles of essie varnishes in different colours, so I thought finding an off creamy colour wouldn’t be too hard. In the past I’ve been able to pick up a bottle of essie and be able to feel confident that the colour it appears in the bottle is the colour that’ll appear on my nails. So with this in mind I bought myself a bottle of Essie Mademoiselle as it seemed to be just the right sort of shade for the dress I was now in possession of. Unlike... Read review

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Advantages: Shade looks exactly like it does in the bottle. Good durability
Disadvantages: A little bit more than the normal brands

...I recently discovered the Essie nail varnish range during a lunch time stop off in the Body Shop. It’s starting to get dangerous this obsession I have with that place but I still can’t walk past without going in and buying something. So as they were offering two of these bottles of Nail varnish for £8, normally £4.99 each I not only got one to go with my new lipstick but also one to match my Lancome Rouge Magentic lipstick as well. So I decided my second bottle should be this, Essie’s A List varnish. Now obviously this was a bit of a gamble as having never used the Essie range before, spending £8 on two rather than sampling one first was a bit of a gamble. It is a gamble I always take and thankfully with the Essie range it is one that has certainly paid off. The shade of the A List varnish was exactly what I was looking for, well... Read review

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Advantages: GOOD RESULTS
Disadvantages: WHILE TO DRY

...I paid £8.50 for a 15ml bottle of Essie Ballet Slippers Varnish. I've used Essie nail polish before and I thought it gave fantastic results and made my nails look great. The Ballet slippers colour is great for someone who has pale skin. Other shades in the Essie range are: Tomboy no more, damsel in a dress, bold and beautiful and forever young. The varnish Goes on and stays on better than any other nail polish I have used. It doesn't chip easily, and continues to stay shiny and fresh looking for days. Essie has a variety of beautiful colours to choose from but this is defiantly my favourite. I prefer this colour because it's a subtle pale pink so it doesn't look over the top when I'm going out shopping. The Application is as follows... It's Very easy to do I recommend that you that you apply the varnish by painting... Read review

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Advantages: Looks divine, easy to apply, chip resistant, added shine
Disadvantages: The price tage for some

...products. One of my favourite brands of nail varnish is Essie and it is a brand that you probably wouldn't find in your everyday high street store like Superdrug and Boots. Essie is brilliant and their nail varnishes come in a massive array of colours all of which have eye catching names to suit their colour. I was introduced to Essie nail varnish by one of my very close friends who use nothing else and I now buy mine in bulk online. Each bottle of Essie nail varnish contains 15ml of nail varnish and costs around £8.50 and my current favourite bottle is called Sole Mate nail varnish and it is a lovely deep shade of maroon and goes perfect with almost any outfit that I own and lovely long nails it looks striking. Each bottle lasts me on average 6-8 months depending on how much I like the colour which I think is really good value for money... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to use, easy to find, great price, chip resistant
Disadvantages: None

...it and it looks nice to see some colour on your fingernails and on your toe nails. One of my favourite brands of nail varnish is Essie and it is a brand that you won't find in your everyday high street but it is brilliant and comes in a huge array of colours all of which have eye catching names to match their colour. I was introduced to Essie nail varnish by one of my very close friends who swear by it and I buy mine in bulk online. Each bottle contains 15ml of nail varnish and costs £8.50 and my current favourite bottle is called Sole Mate nail varnish and it is a lovely deep shade of maroon and goes perfect with almost any outfit that I own and lovely long nails it looks striking. Each bottle lasts me on average 6-8 months depending on how much I like the colour which I think is really good value for money. It doesnt dry up within the bottle... Read review

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Advantages: Bold colour,only needs one coat,easy to apply
Disadvantages: Quite expensive, hard to find in shops

...I decided to buy this nail varnish after having a disaster on holiday where I dropped my full bottle of Jessica coral nail varnish on the villa floor spilling the entire contents over my leg and the floor! : ( I liked the Jessica colour but I wanted something more orange…after searching the whole Jessica range and not finding anything I tried the Opi nail varnishes and found the 'Atomic Orange' colour, which looked bright orange! I wouldn't have had the next idea about where to find Opi nail varnishes, other than beauty salons which was where I had first noticed the brand. So rather than buying off the official site I tried ebay and found the right colour on there for £6 inc postage, which seemed a lot cheaper that anywhere else. Packaging I was a bit worried whether it would be the same colour it looked on the internet... Read review

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Advantages: Makes a good top-coat
Disadvantages: 'Watershine' is a lie, it's bulky, very runny, streaky

...I was drifting around Superdrug, feeling rubbish and looking for something fairly cheap to buy to make myself feel better - there was a promotion on Maybelline Watershine Nail Varnish - buy one get another half price, so I bought a clear one and a pale pink one, for about £6. I saw a wide range available, but the shade I chose was White Light (a pale pink) and the matching top-coat. I saw everything from deep purples to shimmery golds, so there are lots to choose from. It comes in a square clear bottle, and is quite bulky. The lid is the same colour as the nail polish, and in silver letters on the front, you have MAYBELLINE WaterShine, and in smaller letters, Wet Look, High Shine. It contains 12ml, and costs £3.99 for one bottle. The first thing I noticed when I unscrewed the lid was that it's quite runny, not at all like other... Read review

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