Essie Original High Shine And High Coverage Nail Polish Brunt Orange Red Colour, Shade 426 Playing Koi 13.5 Ml

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Taste, flair and unrivalled street style make up Japan's uncanny aptitude for mixing fashion metaphors. Essie Playing Koi nail polish is a burnt orange nail colour with an elegant opaque finish. This dark orange nail varnish is perfect for any season and occassion, but especially for long walks in autumn leaves. Go bold with this flirtatious orange rust and you’ll never fish for compliments again. This polish is a creamy wonder. I did not have to worry about accidentally leaving too much on my brush or anything like that, it almost refused to pool! It goes on like butter and totally covers all visible nail line with just one coat. I don’t think my coats were super even so I did need one more coat to get the color perfected. While I didn’t search for dupes, knowing how My Italian is a Little Rusty compares to some of my other fall favorites makes me feel really good about having it in my collection! Shades like this just scream fall to me and I know I’m going to be itching to get it on my digits every year. I don’t know why I didn’t think about this until now, but this polish REALLY looks like pumpkin pie. Mmmmm. Even more reason to love it!

Essie: Playing Koi My absolute favorite fall polish of all time! Essie: Playing Koi

Create a salon-worthy manicure with the Nail Polish from essie, the USA's nail salon expert since 1981. Developed with a crystal clear solvent base and pure micro-milled pigments, the award-winning formula delivers chip-resistant colour with a long-lasting finish. Also compared to Essie Yes I canyon, Essie’s playing koi is still my favorite (I’m sorry other shades!) LOVE this polish so much!! I knew I had no dupes for this one. You can see above some much older polishes that are somewhat similar, but definitely not dupes. Not surprised here!! Final Thoughts?

You don't have permission to access "http://www.asos.com/essie/essie-original-nail-polish-playing-koi/prd/10366807" on this server. And here we have the requested ‘Mink Muffs’ to compare, along with ‘Easily Suede.’ After seeing the cooler tones in the first comparison, I thought a more grayed out brown would be a dupe, but ‘Easily Suede’ is even more gray. ‘Mink Muffs’ is a much darker, more chocolate brown, as you can see in the photo. How can there be so many variations of brown?!? You don't have permission to access "http://www.asos.com/essie/essie-original-nail-polish-playing-koi/prd/10366800?" on this server. Recognised for its whimsical name and square bottle with white cap, the nail varnish sits perfectly in the hand and features internal rounded corners so you can reach every last drop of your favourite shade. Its specially designed brush allows controlled application for a mistake-free, professional finish every time. Create a salon-worthy manicure with the Nail Polish from essie, the USA's nail salon expert since 1981. Developed with a crystal clear solvent base and pure micro-milled pigments, the award-winning formula delivers chip-resistant color with a long-lasting finish.

essie Nail Colour 426 Playing Koi 13.5ml | SEPHORA UK

Essie Taste, flair and unrivalled street style make up Japan's uncanny aptitude for mixing fashion metaphors. Update September 2021: Wow! It has been so long since I have written this post! Playing Koi is still one of my favorite shades ever. I recently used it in a comparison to China glaze’s new Spice to meet you, and that’s what made me revisit this post. If there are still looking at this post, I though it might be helpful to add in the comparisons that I did with Playing koi. So here they are! Comparison of Essie Playing koi vs China glaze Spice to meet you vs OPI My Italian is a little rusty and OPI Have your panettone and eat it tooRecognized for its whimsical name and square bottle with white cap, the nail varnish sits perfectly in the hand and features internal rounded corners so you can reach every last drop of your favorite shade. Its specially designed brush allows controlled application for a mistake-free, professional finish every time.

essie Nail Colour 426 Playing Koi 13.5ml | SEPHORA UK essie Nail Colour 426 Playing Koi 13.5ml | SEPHORA UK

This was a fun comparison to do! I feel like Essie has been coming out with so many of these pretty fall colored oranges lately! I thought that ‘Kaf-tan’ from the Summer Collection may be close, but it was much more brown in the bottle so I didn’t swatch it. ‘Tart Deco’ was also much brighter, so I chose not to swatch that one either. Totally get it, I was on the fence with it but ultimately decided it was orangey enough 😀 The name is fantastic, I always love the place-themed OPI collections for the names they come up with! Instead of searching for dupes, I thought I would try to situate this polish for anyone who has not seen it in person by comparing it to other popular burnt orange/brown/red polishes from the falls of yore. My Italian is a Little Rusty is in the middle and of course I had to compare it to my all time favorite, OPI It’s a Piazza Cake, on the left (what’s up with these Italy collections being so good). It’s a Piazza Cake is definitely a true orange, it looks waaaaaay lighter than My Italian is a Little Rusty. To the right we have Essie’s Playing Koi, which is much more red-leaning and also has a squishier formula. I had to do three coats of it versus two coats of the others. You don't have permission to access "http://www.asos.com/essie/essie-original-nail-polish-playing-koi/prd/10366800" on this server. Playing Koi is the reddest out of the other shades, and it is probably still my favorite shade out of these four. Playing koi vs OPI My Italian is a little rusty vs Essie yes I canyonThe second coat of My Italian is a Little Rusty goes on just as easily as the first. I did flood my pinky because the brush is just slightly too wide for my little pinky nail and I painted too far over. Despite this being a super rich, pigmented polish I did not notice any inclination to stain the skin during my cleanup. When you buy an OPI, this is the formula you want (and the formula you deserve for that price tag). I can only hope the rest of the Milan polishes are anything like this one!