Nail of the Week: Inexpensive Essie Dupe

Essence "night in vegas" on my nails (the picture does not do it justice)  (click on photo to enlarge)

Essence "Night in Vegas"

Essie "Shine of the times"

Today I wanted to do a quick blogpost and let you guys know about a great inexpensive Essie nail polish dupe. I have been lusting over Essie "Shine of the Times" for forever now, as you guys know under ordinary circumstances I simply cannot bring myself to spend $8 on a bottle of polish, but Shine of the times is no ordinary polish. This is a multicolored flake (not glitter) topcoat with flashes of green red and a slight blue sheen. Layered over another (particularly darker) color, it will give your boring manicure a beautiful otherworldly sheen. I did my best to capture this in my picture but it did not do it justice, it is so hard to capture all the colors on camera but in person it is BEAUTIFUL!! I was so enamored with this color that I decided I was willing to loosen the purse strings a little bit and splurge on this color, problem is this color was suddenly nowhere to be found. I have heard rumors on other nail blogs that this color is going to be discontinued (sad) BUT...while wandering through Fred Meyer (a popular one stop shopping place on the west coast I noticed to my surprise that they actually had "Shine of the Times"!! But wait....further into the nail polish aisle I discovered "Night in Vegas" by the brand Essence, and guess what it is literally the exact same thing. I compared the two in the store and they are identical, except of course that at $2.49 it is just over 1/4 of the price of its Essie counterpart. Yay!! Happy day! :) So if you have been lusting over this color like me check out this inexpensive dupe.