OPI ~ Absolutely Alice with Essence dots

OPI ~ Absolutely Alice  

Medium blue glitter with sparse gold glitters

"Absolutely Alice" is from the Alice in Wonderland collection from spring 2010. I’ve been lemming this for quite a while now, but it’s getting harder and harder to find at a reasonable price. I found this in a blog sale, and I paid $25 for it. That’s way more than I would usually spend on a polish – but since OPI costs $22 here, I didn’t think it was hugely expensive. I was very impatient with my postman until the day where he finally brought me Alice :D

It took two easy coats to reach desired opaqueness. Drying time was pretty fast, and that pleased me a lot. I hate sitting around just waiting for paint to dry…

Two coats, no top coat yet:

And from a different angle:

I decided to go for dotting for my nail art. I used two Essence polishes: A white crème from their “50’s Girls reloaded” collection, and a pink crème from their “Ready for Boarding” collection.

I tried to keep the dots on half the nails, like as if I had masked it with tape diagonally across. And I dotted in various sizes with the two colours.

Here’s it’s sealed up with a layer of Poshé top coat:

On this pic you can see how I tried to keep half of Alice by herself:

And here’s another shot with the other bottle, just because I like this mani so much:

 

The involved polishes:

So – what do you think, girls? Would you pay $25 for one polish? If not – what’s your limit?

Opacity: 9/10
Colour, prettiness: 10/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 8.75/10
Buy again: Yes