essie haute to trot Swatches + Review
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In this post, you’re going to see swatches and a light review of a vibrant, long wearing light pink from essie - essie gel couture haute to trot.
essie defines haute to trot as a long wear hot lavender rose cream. You could also call haute to trot a tulip pink.
We first featured this color in the post, DIY Pink Lemonade Nails as an accent color and today we’re showing it to you over the full nail.
As a medium coverage sheer offering even coverage in two coats, if you have nail tips, you will see them when inspecting your finished manicure up close.
That said, those coats will be even and give you a beautiful bright pink finish that will appear to be cream coverage at a distance.
People who aren’t scrutinizing your nails won’t see your nail tips, only you will when you look at them under a magnifying glass.
Pinks like this often provide even coverage in a minimum of three coats, yet, haute to trot does it in two coats, which makes this particular formula somewhat of an outlier in the world of spring pinks.
I love this shade for Valentine’s Day, spring, and summer manicures and it was one of the first long-wearing pinks I purchased from essie. I still have it in my collection and pull it out whenever I need a pink me up.
Something else I also love about it is that it’s in essie’s gel couture - a long wearing formula that only requires the color coat and the top coat, no base coat is needed. This simplifies the process and saves you money.
All in all, essie haute to trot dries quickly, provides a hot pink finish perfect for spring in minimal coats and lasts on your nails.
It’s bright. It’s pretty. It’s cheerful. It’s a very well done pink polish by essie.
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