Essie Summer 2024 Collection Nail Polish [966 - Breathe In Breathe Out] Review
By Maychiri's Thoughts - October 17, 2024
Just one nail polish for today, but it’s a good one! This is
the Essie Summer 2024 Collection Nail Polish, in the shade 966/Breathe In
Breathe Out!
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Another Essie... I can’t help myself when they’re always so
good – and there is always at least one colour in each new collection that I
fancy! For the summer 2024 collection, which was all about meditation and inner
peace, the only colour that truly spoke to me was this violet one. I love yoga,
so the name of this shade really tickled me! I am not usually one to wear such
violet nails often, because I am worried about staining, but I had to have this
one, the name was just too good! And besides, it looked like a nice muted
violet, so I am sure it will look nice on my pale skin. Now, let’s breathe
in... then breathe out... and now let’s see how good this Essie nail polish is!
I hope it’s every bit as good as they’ve been thus far!
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Packaging: classic Essie type of bottle; it is rectangular,
and it feels sturdy. The text is white, to match the cap. I really like the use
of white here, I feel like it goes really well with the violet colour! There is
also one more detail that I love: there’s an Essie logo relief on both sides of
the bottle, which makes it look so much more fancy! The cap is white and quite
tall. It closes super tightly, so much that I sometimes struggle to open it! Very
classy bottle, I love this design!
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Ingredients: nothing nourishing and 3-free (DBP,
formaldehyde, toluene). The scent is your typical nail polish kind of scent,
nothing too special. The expiration date is 24 months after opening.
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Colour: hmm, this colour reminds me of ORLY's Breathable
nail polish, in the shade TLC, albeit, this one is more reddish compared to
that one. Anyways, this is a “soft, dusty purple with white undertones”,
according to Essie. I agree! Although, to me it looks more violet, quite like
the Pantone colour “African violet”. In any case, it is definitely dusty, which
gives it this sense of calm. It’s a relaxing colour for sure, perfect for doing
soothing yoga exercises with! I really like this colour because it’s got a very
good blend of red/blue pigments; it’s just a bit more reddish so it blends with
many skintones better. It looks so flattering on pale skin! I was afraid that
it might look a bit weird on me, but it actually looks so elegant and cool!
Although, this is definitely a more wintery colour than a summery one. It’s too
muted for the bright summer sun, no? Still, I love it nonetheless!
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The brush is standard for Essie, which means: extremely
good! This is the patented Essie ‘easy-glide’ brush that can be bent to almost
45 degrees, which allows it to reach every nook and cranny and apply nail
polish perfectly. Indeed, it applies nail polish so well that I only needed 2-3
swipes until it was perfect! Just remember to tap off the excess because it
picks up a huge amount of polish! But I am constantly amazed by how easy it is
to paint my nails with Essie nail polishes, it’s so fun! Every swipe is even
and coats the nail in just the right amount of nail polish, ensuring that you
get salon-like results each time! As for the shape? It’s a long flat brush with
rounded edges on the sides.
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And another great thing about this nail polish is its
formula: it is not at all runny, but it’s also not very thin. It’s not too
thick, either. It feels luxurious and creamy and silky at the same time, without
feeling goopy or gelly at any point. I love how easily it spreads across nails;
I don’t even have to try to make it even, it will just spread perfectly on its
own. I’ve always loved Essie’s formulas, and this one is another awesome one!
It just feels luxurious and high-end, like it should!
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One coat isn’t quite opaque. I can still see my nails
underneath, but they aren’t very visible. Still, I feel like the colour isn’t
quite as vibrant as it should be. But it’s completely even and feels very
lightweight! Now, with two coats, it is completely opaque and still feels
lightweight. It’s also perfectly even, not a single uneven patch to be found! I
really wouldn’t advise applying more than 2 coats, though, it looks perfect
with two. The colour is vibrant like it should be and it is even and opaque.
With anything more it might start becoming goopy. The texture is glossy.
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And the chips were barely
visible anyways! It was just very minor edge chipping along the free edges of a
couple of nails, in addition to a few very small chips on the corners of 3
nails. Really, if you didn’t look closely, you wouldn’t notice it. This is
actually incredible longevity, given what I was doing to my hands! I am
actually pretty satisfied with the longevity of this Essie, it can withstand
rigorous hand washing without looking like a right mess on day 5! Nice!
I didn’t have any issues removing this nail polish; I didn’t
need to rub my nails a lot in order to fully remove the nail polish. I was a
bit worried that it would make my nails yellow, but it doesn’t discolour nails!
Yay!
All in all, yep, another fantastic Essie nail polish... no
surprise! See, this is exactly why I keep buying new shades as they come out, I
know I can count on Essie to be there for me and not chip no matter what I do! I
didn’t have to do a lot of ‘sol searching’ to find the right colour in this
collection, I knew right away that this colour would be the best one for me! And
I was right – look how awesome it looks on pale skin! It really pops, but it
isn’t extremely vibrant, it’s just a gentle wash of colour that is truly
soothing to look at. Essie describe it as being a purple shade, but to me this
is definitely a violet colour, specifically, an African violet kind of colour. It’s
a fantastic colour, but it’s not really summery to me. It’s a much more fall
and winter type of colour. Still, I love it! And the formula is the same
awesome formula that makes Essies so great; it’s super silky and incredibly
easy to use because it applies evenly without even trying! The brush helps
immensely with this: this is a large flat brush that picks up a ton of pigment
and spreads it perfectly evenly across the nails, to ensure you get salon-like
results every time. Seriously, it’s so fun to use! Of course, to get to 100%
opacity, you will need 2 coats, but since it’s so fun and easy to use, this
isn’t a problem. And once you do apply 2 coats, man does it look incredible! So
rich in colour and so glossy! But the fun doesn’t stop here, nope! Like all the
previous Essies I used, this one, too, has outstanding longevity! It doesn’t
get covered in scratches easily, and it takes a lot to get it to chip – and I
mean this! Since applying it, I have found out that I got Covid again, and with
that came a lot of disinfecting my hands. This is not easy on nail polishes,
and it takes a special kind of robust formula to be able to survive this – and
this nail polish survived! Not completely unscathed, there was edge chipping
along most nails, and there were a few bigger chips after a hair wash, but just
the fact that it survived this long in this good of a condition is remarkable! 5
days of intense hand washing and disinfecting (and a hair wash) and yet it
looked almost intact from a distance. This makes me love this nail polish even
more, even though the longevity is, objectively, slightly worse than the
previous Essies. Because, while I was battling the virus, having a high fever and
coughing up my lungs out, at least I had this gorgeous nail polish on my nails
to brighten my day. And to soothe me with this calming colour. So, all that’s
left is for me to give this nail polish my recommendation, because it has
really earned it! Ah, now I can breathe out deeply, knowing that Essie nail
polishes are still just as awesome as ever!
Rating: 8/10
Would buy again? YES
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