Essie Luxeffects Swatches and Review

I bought these as a present for myself and couldn't wait to play with them! My first Essie polishes! This is a very picture heavy post, so I'll let the pictures do most the talking...

Essie Luxeffects: (L-R) Set In Stone, As Gold As It Gets, A Cut Above, Pure Pearlfection, Shine of the Times

Essie Luxeffects: (L-R) Set In Stones, As Gold As It Gets, A Cut Above, Pure Pearlfection, Shine of the Times

Swatched in the same order as the bottles, thumb to pinky

Essie Luxeffects, over black (Set In Stones, As Gold As It Gets, A Cut Above, Pure Pearlfection, Shine of the Times)

Essie Luxeffects, over black (Set In Stones, As Gold As It Gets, A Cut Above, Pure Pearlfection, Shine of the Times)

Essie Luxeffects, over black (Set In Stones, As Gold As It Gets, A Cut Above, Pure Pearlfection, Shine of the Times)

Essie Luxeffects, over black (Set In Stones, As Gold As It Gets, A Cut Above, Pure Pearlfection, Shine of the Times)

And some single nail shots, in a different order, just to mix things up ...

Essie A Cut Above, one coat over black

Essie A Cut Above is a clear base with small light pink glitter with medium and large light pink glitter. Nice and even distribution of glitter. Gorgeous.

Essie As Gold As It Gets, one coat over black

 Essie As Gold As It Gets is fine gold shimmer in a clear base. Very pretty.

Essie Pure Pearlfection, one coat over black

Essie Pure Pearlfection is a silvery blue shimmer in a clear base. It shined silver or blue, maybe a hint of purple or pink in some lights?, but I couldn't capture it. Pretty color.

Essie Set In Stones, one coat over black

Essie Set In Stones is a silver version of A Cut Above - clear base with small silver glitter and medium and large silver hexagonal glitter. Again, nice even distribution of glitter, covered well.

Essie Shine of the Times, one coat over black

Essie Shine of the Times is a flakie that shines bronze, gold, copper, and green depending on the light. The shot above shows most of the colors, feel free to enlarge it. I love this color. I don't know how it compares to other flakies, but since it's the only one I have, I think it's perfection!

You can buy these anywhere Essie is sold. I bought mine at Ulta, but I see them at Walgreen's all the time. They retail for $8.00 each.

I'm on call for my job ALL weekend, so I won't be having any crazy partying. =( Anyone fun plans tonight? Please tell me, so I can live vicariously through someone else's life.