essie expressie now or never Review
Photo of essie expressie now or never #380 swatch on warm yellow-toned hand with white marbled background
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A reliable black nail polish is a must-have in any nail polish collection.
Black nail polishes are versatile Jacks of All Trades kinds of nail polishes.
They are handy in so many ways.
Black nail polish can be used as a base for glitters, in a French Manicure on the tips, and many other forms in nail art, like stamping.
You can also wear them flat, for a clean, professional look. Remove all stereotypes from your mind about who wears black nail polish. You can wear one and wear it well.
The black range of colors available among nail polish lines are flattering on everyone and can give the hand a petite look, due to black’s natural minimizing effects.
now or never #380 from the essie expressie line, launched in 2019 with originally 40 colors, is a rich black nail polish designed to dry in a minute.
It’s the black nail polish of honor today.
This polish creates a glitter-free high shine, giving it a glossy creme-like finish.
When fully dried, now or never matches the appearance of that beautiful, patent leather sheen on tuxedo shoes, providing a very classy manicured look as a finished product.
It takes 2 full thin coats to be fully opaque, and both of these coats live up to their name, they do dry in less than a minute.
Speeding up the manicure process even more than the formula, the bottle comes with a wide-brush that’s bent at an angle.
Using the expressie bent brush (not pictured in this post) does take a short learning curve to use, but it’s worth it.
Where the bent brush really shines is when applying polish with your non-dominant hand. This is usually the most consuming and mistake-ridden part of the manicure process.
The angle allows you to get the edges of the nail more easily, and follow the curve of the nail bed, which is harder to do when you are painting with your non-dominant hand.
Since you can get these areas more easily with it, this angled brush saves time.
expressie also is an environmentally-friendly line. All polishes from essie expressie are not made with animal products and are 8-free. 8-free means that expressie is formulated without: formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin, toluene, xylene, camphor, ethyl tosylamide, dibutylphthalate, triphenyl phosphate.
Now that we discussed the line and the formula itself, let's get to a few swatches of now or never.
Below are three now or never #380 swatches from the essie expressie line:
Photo of now or never glossy black creme nail polish swatch on warm yellow-toned hand with white marbled background and bottle of essie now or never #380, in upper left
Photo of now or never glossy black creme nail polish swatch on warm yellow-toned hand with white marbled background with bottle of essie now or never #380, in rear
Vertical photo of now or never glossy black creme nail polish swatch up-close on warm yellow-toned hand with white marbled background with bottle of essie now or never #380, in rear
To end, this rich black creme polish is both stunning and elegant when worn. It dries quickly, and creates a clean, chic look.
To create the swatches above, these essie products were used:
Though now or never dries in less than a minute per coat, for best results, give yourself 3-5 minutes once your manicure is dry-to-the-touch to get going in other tasks requiring using your hands, to really let the polish fully set.
All in all, with this classy black nail polish, you’ll be out the door with manicured nails in less than 10-minutes.
Vertical photo of now or never glossy black creme nail polish swatch up-close on warm yellow-toned hand with white marbled background holding bottle of essie now or never #380 with text overlay essie now or never Review
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