Review: Essie Bright Tights – Photos + Swatches

Let’s turn our attention to a brighter color!

Essie Bright Tights is the kind of nail polish that when you decide to wear it you must be sure that anyone will look at you, so a perfect manicure is required. All the time people were looking at my nails, so it’s kind of interesting to see they can’t take their eyes of my nails.

Bright Tights – no flash

Bright Tights it’s a vibrant neon orange color with a mattifying effect. I’m not so  into bright and strong colors like this one but if brought me a happy spirit while I was wearing it and I have to admit I was in a better mood only when I looked at my nails.

The Bright Tights comes in a 15 ml bottle and costs about $9.00.

I’ve applied 2 layers of this mattifying color but I was not pleased with the final result. The texture is very light, almost watery and transparent. After I’ve applied the first layer, I’ve noticed only lines, the color is not very pigmented and the result after the first step was terrible. When I saw this bright color in the bottle I didn’t expect it to be so transparent on my nails.

Bright Tights – no flash – No Top Coat

Definitely a second layer was requested. The final result was definitely improved as you can see from the photos but the polish was not evenly spread so in some parts I can still see through the nail polish. I couldn’t uniformed it as hard as I tried so I was hopping that after it dries it should look better.

I didn’t had to wait so long till my nails were dry, maybe 2 minutes or so and the mattifying effect tried to repair the damage but was not enough.

My last try and also curiosity was to apply a top coat on my nails from the left hand. I know that maybe you are wondering why I wanted to apply a top coat on a matte nail polish and why I didn’t bought directly a shiny one.

Bright Tights with Top Coat – no flash

My idea turned out OK in the end because the lines were not visible anymore and I have to say I like the Shiny Bright Tights better then the matte one.

4 Days Later

Now it’s time to compare the results. I’ve added a layer of top coat on my left hand nails and let the nails from the right hand with only 2 layers of Bright Tights.

Bright Tights with Top Coat – no flash

Bright Tights no Top Coat – no flash

I don’t see any major difference between the two hands but if you want you can say that the nail polish didn’t lasted so good on the left hand (well maybe because it has 3 layers added).

Which variant do you like better? The Shiny Bright Tights or the Matte Bright Tights ?