Essence Colour of the Year Polish in Jeans Ons!

So I’ve made two Colour of the Year posts this year. The first was my nail polish picks for the colours Rose Quartz and Serenity. The second post was the Essence Polish of the Year polish they brought out the shade Forgive Me for the Rose Quartz shade. I didn’t think they’d bring out one for Serenity but low and behold, when I was looking at the Essence stand the other I noticed that this polish, Jeans On!, had a Colour of the Year sticker on it! It would have been nice to have both Forgive Me and Jeans On! in the same post but this will have to do.

It’s a pretty shade and a good enough match for Serenity, more on the periwinkle side of blue than a baby blue which was key for a Serenity match.

While I kinda liked the idea of Rose Quartz and Serenity at the beginning of the year, half way through my interest fell. I had planned to do loads of nail looks with the colours but I just couldn’t motivate myself to do so. However the 2017 shade has been announced and it’s called Greenery. It’s a beautiful bright lushious green, I’m very excited about it. Also Butter London have brought out an official collaborative shade which is awesome! They also have 5 other Pantone shades and they’re all lovely looking. Buttercream is calling my name and Calypso Coral looks like a lovely coral shade (not that I need any more!).

Pantone Colour of the Year Rose Quartz and Serenity Nail Polish Picks #BEDM

I love when Pantone release a new colour of the year, I love the hype of other sites releasing beauty and fashion picks. 2014’s colour was Radiant Orchid and I had a post up with Essence’s polish. Last year was Marsala and I also showed the Essence polish for that too. This year the Pantone Colour of the Year wasn’t just one colour but two. A baby pink called Rose Quartz and a periwinkle blue called Serenity. I waited to see if Essence would bring out special polishes for both but so far they haven’t. So I set about trying to gather some polishes that do match up. I watched JessFace90’s video on this and went by her findings on how Serenity is more periwinkle than baby blue (which I thought it was at first as well). This is what I came up with. Some I bought so they’re still in shops. Others are from what I already had so they might not be in shops anymore. But either way you should find some in the shops now.

Rose Quartz

Essence The Gel Nail Polish in Sweet As Candy, NYC Shine in a Minute in New York Spring, Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine in Rose Hip, Wet N Wild in Sugar Coat, PS Gel Effect in Baby Cakes, Nails Inc in Elizabeth Street, Rimmel 60 Seconds Shine in Ring a Ring O’ Roses and Make Up Gallery Time to Shine in Pink Soda

Serenity Picks

Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer in The Sky So Fly, PS Gel Effect in Bluebell, Nails Inc Instyle 2012 special in Bluebell, Limited Collection Jelly Bean Polish in Spearmint, China Glaze in Boho Blues, Rimmel Rita Ora in Bestival Blues, Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine in Blueberry, Seventeen Gel Colour in Azure Amore, Make Up Gallery Time to Shine in Sky Blue and Essence Gel Nail Polish in Itsy Bitsy Blue Bikini

And because I like matching pairs here’s a picture of the brands that have both of the colours

As you can see there’s a mix of shades, not all of them are perfect but a lighter baby blue (like the Essence one) will work just as well as the others. I say my favourites for how close they are to the shade swatches online are the Barry M and Nails Inc polishes.

I plan on doing some posts with different looks (ombre, water marblings, polka dots etc), so if there’s any of the shades above that you’d really like to see or any particular type of design you’d like let me know. Better still, if you have any polish picks that I didn’t mention above leave me a comment!

PS polish in found in Penneys/Primark, Make Up Gallery is Poundland/Dealz make up stand and The Limited polish was from Marks and Spencers.