
Essie Polish for Lilly For Target
Mani Monday just got a little preppier! 聽If you’ve been living under a rock Lilly Pulitzer’s capsule collection for Target not only sold out in minutes, was extremely cute for even the non-Lilly, and included a special release from Essie in 9 perfectly preppy shades! 聽These are all existing Essie shades but picked to coordinate with the Lilly For Target prints and styles. 聽Lilly is known for her preppy following and happy prints and I think Essie NAILED IT with their collection release. 聽The full collection pictured above from left to right: 聽Baby’s Breath, Gold Nuggets, Forget Me Knots, Capri, First Timer, Pansy, Mesmerized, Borrowed & Blue, and Where’s My Chauffeur.

Lilly For Target Beauty
I didn’t participate in the Pink Sunday Hunger Games, but I did show up the next day on my way to work and was pretty pleased in what they still had left in beauty. 聽After seeing this pale blue shade, Borrowed &聽Blue, in the sneak peeks it was THE item I was hunting for. 聽When I found it and the coordinating headband, bobby pins and nail file in the “My Fans” print I got pretty excited.

Ready For A Summer in Lilly with Essie Borrowed & Blue
Essie Borrowed聽&聽Blue is the perfect pale blue pastel. 聽It has just the right amount of white to not make it look too gawdy on (you know me and blue/green nails). 聽Application was also a dream! 聽It wasn’t too thick and it self leveled perfectly.

Essie Borrowed and Blue Swatch from Lilly for Target
A little note, I totally rushed this mani (I was so excited!) and put on way too much quick dry top coat and my cuticles are bad, like really bad. 聽Don’t let that sway you, this color is perfect! 聽And even with the slight chipping from the massive amount of top coat it still lasted a week!

“Palm Beach聽Is A State of Mind”

Mani Monday in Essie Borrowed and Blue
Another note, these pictures were taken as the storm was rolling in, so super grey and cloudy day. 聽I tried to boost the exposure to see them a little better but it was so hard to capture the true color. 聽Just believe me when I say this is a true robin egg blue! 聽Here’s a little out of focused shot to see the great shine this polish has.

And shiny too!
If you weren’t able to get your manicured mitts on any of the Essie polish, don’t worry because these are past shades from Essie, so they’ll pop up. 聽Maybe not with the tag (but who cares you throw that away anyways), but don’t pay the outrageous price on ebay, just be patient. 聽I know this shade is going to be in heavy rotation on my fingers this summer in Lilly!

Essie Borrowed & Blue for Lilly Pulitzer for Target