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Another Studio M today, the house line for Miejer - this time from their holiday/Christmas collection that came out earlier this year.  This is called Orna-Mint and is a beautiful pale minty green foil.  In fact, this is such a shimmery shade that it was very hard to capture on film.  Below are the best pictures I could get. 

This is two coats.  This particular color doesn't wear as well as some of the other Studio M or Massini shades I have.  I think it's probably because it's a foil.  In about 2 days I started to have chips.  Oh well - it's a beauty anyway!

Essie's School of the Hard Rocks.  This is a dusty gray/teal/evergreen.  Really, the product in the bottle doesn't do it justice.  Applied, this is a very unique and beautiful shade.  This falls into the "greige" category, only on the green side - maybe a "greenge"?  I will say, this was a bit of a difficult color to capture in pictures - it looks more blue in the pictures, and is a bit more green in real life - but you get the idea.

I wanted to add a little bit of a festive look to this color, so I used one of my CinaPro Nail Decals in Peppermint Twist, which I found at Sally Beauty.  They are adorable, and this set has candy canes, snowmen, wreaths and gingerbread men.  There is another one exclusive to Sally that has Santa, Rudolph, and other festive decals.  I believe they retailed for $3.99.

Back to the Essie - the formula is one of the nicer formulas for Essie.  This is smooth and shiny and coverage is very nice.  Above is two coats of polish with one coat of top coat.  I would put this polish as one of the "must have's" for you - it's different enough, but also very wearable. 

Have you tried this color?  What other color from the collection have you picked up? 

Another Studio M/Massini color from Meijer.  This time I have on Ego Trip, which was on an end cap with their Holiday colors for this year.  There were tons to choose from, many of which I will need to go back for!  Lots of metallics and foils.  If I had been thinking, I would have taken a snapshot of the actual display, but I spaced it.

Ego Trip is a very deep emerald green with hints of teal.  It switches based on the surroundings, although I wouldn't call it a duochrome.  To me, it's a very Christmas-y green.  The first thing I thought of was Hermey the Elf from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

This was an amazing formula.  I could have gotten away with just one coat, but I did two just for good measure.  The coverage was fantastic, it dried very smoothly without any streaking from the frost, and the texture was thin enough to make it easy to apply, but not so thin that it was runny.  I wish all the formulas were like this, but of course it depends on the color.

Sorry for the grainy pictures - my camera was dead so I used my phone.  I just had to show this one off!  I'm thinking for Christmas I will layer some red glitter over the top.  The pictures don't do it justice, though.  It is gorgeous in real - life.  I will take some updated pictures once the batteries are charged.