*Polishes used in this post were provided to me as a PR sample*

The 2013 Holiday collection by Essie, Encrusted Treasures, is full of sparkles, glitters and textures! You can read the press release here. The entire collection is not only very appropriate for the holidays but can also be used for parties and special occasions or as accent nails (shown here).

I am super late in publishing this post because of the trouble I had photographing some of the glitter polishes in this collection! They are so sparkly that my camera had trouble capturing the details of the glitter and would only show glare on my nails!!! I ended up swatching and photographing this entire collection THREE before I was finally happy with the result.

Some of the photographs may still look funny, but I can assure you that they are colour accurate and capture the beauty of each shade in this collection… even though my skin colour is all over the place!

Here is a collage of the entire Encrusted Treasures collection… perfect for Pinterest and Instagram!

 Overall Comments:

The formula varies across the collection since each polish is pretty unique. As you can see from my collage above, it is definitely possible to achieve full opacity for every shade. However, there are some that can be layered… more pictures to follow! I truly love this collection and I am glad Essie has produced something very different from what they usually do. I can definitely see myself using these polishes for accent nails, glitter gradients and maybe even an entire sparkly manicure!

Click the “read more” to see more pictures and a detailed review of each polish.

Update: I am BACK!

Happy new year everyone! After a super LONG break… I am finally BACK with the first post of 2014!

Since my last post (Dec 8, 2013), I have been very busy with my job and part-time school. I then went to Toronto for 3 weeks during Christmas and took a break from it all but even though I was on “vacation”, I had absolutely no time!

Christmas always means a ton of holiday parties, spending time with family and friends, shopping and if there is any time left… lazing around! I also went to CUBA for a week and spent a lot time sun bathing and swimming!

I finally got back to Ottawa over a week ago but have been busy apartment-searching as I need to move within the next month. I am also back to working full-time and working on my designation part-time.

Even though I am swamped, I have so many polishes to show you all!! I have been keeping up with other blogs and I am so ready to start doing my nails and posting regularly!

Thought I should give all my readers a quick update before I start posting tomorrow. Surprisingly, I have had quite a few new followers on various social media during my break… which is awesome!

Thanks to everyone that has been following me… and thanks to everyone that has started following me recently… my blog is going to hit the 1 year mark very soon so I will plan something special for that!!

See you all back tomorrow with some gorgeous swatches! :D