It's three coats of colour for a total of five coats. Any more than that usually peel for me.
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you'll need a darker colour under the shiny top coat to get that look. I got the same (and some other shiny colours) and I use grey, darker red or blue under the shiny coat - it creates beautiful shiny colours. I mostly go for grey nowadays because I love the sparkling - but for u blue seems to be the correct colour to get close to the look from the bottle
I'll try that, thank you! Thing is, this isn't supposed to be a top coat, so I'm somewhat disappointed. Also, that means that I'll have to use just one layer of it, since dark polish will require two layers, and I always use base and top, and more than five layers always peel for me.
Edit: btw, hadn't considered gray, thanks for the idea. I'll try navy first though, maybe even purple.
ya, I know as a standalone nail polish it's nothing like in the bottle (same with the other shiny essie ones)🥲 I kinda like this freedom now because I get to create my own colour-shine-mixtures. Oh and I recently added the new gel-like top coat from essie on top of these and it looked supercool. I always go with base coat, colour, shiny and top coat - sometimes two shiny layers if I wanna sparkle extraordinary 😄