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Essie Wild Thing - doesn’t make my heart sing but it does make a nice bit of sparkle! I got this free with a magazine at some point over the summer and wasn’t too impressed at the time given the love being expressed for this brand on various blogs. It was thin and weedy and needed three coats to get any sort of coverage on its own, and it proceeded to chip very quickly during a busy weekend. On the other hand, I was going through several sorts of rough patch at the time, so maybe I’m unfairly pinning too much on an innocent nail varnish! Anyway, this is two coats of Wild Thing over one coat of Barry M Raspberry, topped with Barry M 3-in-1 to hopefully remedy the chipping issue. Over Raspberry it becomes quite a satisfying dark red, still with the multicoloured sparkles that attracted me to it when I saw it in the bottle. Just the thing to cheer up my newly-shortened nails! And yes that is a TV guide with a picture of David Tennant on - it was nearby and roughly the right colour, and I happened to be watching Dr Who (which made me cry, dammit) at the time so thought it was appropriate…
