Essie Off the Shoulder Nail Lacquer Review, Photos, Swatches
Essie Off the Shoulder Nail Lacquer
Pop of Pink to Keep Your Summer Bright
Essie Off the Shoulder Nail Lacquer ($8.00 for 0.50 fl. oz.) is described as “a bold hot pink.” It’s a brightened medium pink with subtle cool undertones with a cream finish. Cult Nails Untamed is similar but has a jelly finish and contains shimmer. MAC Pink Nouveau is darker. Chanel May is several shades lighter and more yellow-toned. MAC Ice Cream Cake is much, much cooler-toned. MAC Galore Pink is a smidgen lighter. Zoya Jolene is brighter.
What a happy, perfect-for-summer pink cream! It has an immaculate formula, too–naturally glossy, full color coverage in two coats, and applies evenly without a fuss. I didn’t experience any bubbling, streaking, or pooling of the polish along the edges of the nail. I typically get a full week of wear with Essie’s formula with some minor tip wear but no chipping to speak of. When I was swatching through some Essies last week, I was reminded of how much I love their cream formula.
Off the Shoulder
LELimited Edition. $8.00.
Essie Off the Shoulder Nail Lacquer
Essie Off the Shoulder Nail Lacquer
Essie Off the Shoulder Nail Lacquer
Essie Off the Shoulder Nail Lacquer
Essie Off the Shoulder Nail Lacquer
Essie Off the Shoulder Nail Lacquer
Gorgeous pink! Just the right level of intensity for a pretty look.
maybe its just the camera but,mine looks darker almost like a barbie pink
Christine, I think the color description is wrong… the ‘limitless sea blue’ was another polish.
@kendo Fixed!
a limitless sea blue? typo 🙂 beautiful color, thanks for the review!
@Beverley Fixed – sorry for being such an idiot!
“Essie Off the Shoulder Nail Lacquer ($8.00 for 0.50 fl. oz.) is described as “a limitless sea blue.””I think you need to work on proofreading.
_bornforastorm So sorry! I just fixed it – I copy and paste posts to save time on all of the image coding, since I write the posts in html 🙂 I meant to look up the official description and must have forgotten by the time I finished the review. Sorry again!
Christine (Temptalia) I do this sometimes in my work even though I also have a lot of attention to detail. If you look at the thousands of tasks you have to accomplish to create a single post, stuff sometimes will happen, even if your error rate is .0001 %. I don’t think you have to “work” on your proofreading.
AS1929 This one was so annoying, because I even remember noting, “You need to look up the official color description” and then it never happened!
You also have it as available at Nordstrom.
xamyx It is available at Nordstrom! I checked all three links, and they take you to where you can purchase it on Nordstrom 🙂
I almost ordered mine from Nordstrom (had it in my shopping cart) but saw it at BB& B and grabed it while I was there instead.
I almost ordered mine from Nordstrom (had it in my shopping cart) but saw it at BB& B and grabed it while I was there instead.
Very Barbie 🙂 Not something I’d personally wear. But I don’t hate it.
It is a pretty color but I hate Essie polishes with a passion. I got a couple from last summer’s collection, used one of them once (Braziliant) and never again. Hated the formula (and the ingredient list) and it chipped like nobodies business.
@Rachel What about the ingredient list bothered you? Totally curious – I don’t think I’ve ever looked at a polish’s ingredient list so I’m wondering what stuck out to you.
Very pretty! I seriously need to go buy some Essie nail polishes — if their formula is that good, I’m SO buying some! Great price point, too.
this is so adorable!!!!!
Agreed–Essie has an amazing array of colors to choose from and a fantastic formula. This is why I’m never tempted to spend the extra $12-18 for a high-end polish–I am perfectly happy with my Essie from CVS 🙂
Oh, I like this! Bright and happy for summer, and will look great against a lot of different skin tones.
I love Essie! I think I have enough pinks but I agree this is a happy pink!
This looks extremely streaky on my monitor. Even if I liked this I wouldn’t be able to find it. All the displays for this collection are cleaned out or have been replaced by something new.
jennyh It looks *extremely* streaky and uneven in that last photo to me too. But not at all in the other ones. It’s so odd. I noticed it myself and went back to look at the prior photos, then thought I must be imagining it. Glad to see I’m not alone.
Gorgeous shade. Will have to check it out!
this looks exactly like essie – knockout pout!!!
oh my buddha(lol), what a pretty shimmer-less pink <3