ESSENCE Gel Nail Colour10 Did you mist me"This is one of the newly updated Essence nail polish formulas, even though Essence kept the shape of the bottle. I was concerned it might be a miss, as reviews are pretty bad on their website, but it must be just some shades that are terrible, as this one applies like their previous formula. It's a typical thick gel formula that applies evenly with one coat and evens its self out, so there's not streaks. It's mostly opaque in one coat. It has a minus though, as even with ultra fast drying top coat wonder Seche Vite, this isn't completely dry after 5-10 minutes and there can be some dings if you're not careful (I haven't tried it without SV to tell you how slow it dries). But I can deal with waiting a bit longer, as the colour is truly a beautiful nude. It's more pink than their discontinued Pure Beauty shade I still adore, but similar in depth, so a muted pink nude shade.  
MAX FACTOR Miracle Pure Nail Polish840 Moonstone BlueIt's been a while since I've worn a mint green shade, even though it is one of my favourite colours, but Essie's Mint Candy Apple is useless and my only decent such shade (formula-wise), Kiko's, is too green for my taste. This shade is just what I wanted, a mint green that leans more to blue than green. It's been on my nails for most of the month. It's maybe unusually for a new release not a gel formula, but though the formula isn't as smooth as those, three coats get me an even application tha...