Essie Nail Polish, 10 Random, No Repeats

Great deal and good assortment of colors to add to my collection that I normally wouldn't chooseI will say the packaging could have been better. All polishes were in this sealed mailer and then inside a box. (Nothing in between polishes to protect them) I could see people ending up with broken polishes, however mine all came un-broken.

I ordered two sets, no repeats amongst all 20. Good colors. None of them were dried out or separated, everything came fast and without problems. The first set I got had 3 ‘special colors’ a pink glitter (a cut above), a silver (jingle bells) and a holo glitter (sequin scene). The second set I ordered was 5 from the 2022 spring collection, and 5 from the 2022 valentines collection with 2 special colors, a antique silver (under locket & key) and a pearly light gray (quill you be mine). Overall happy with this purchase. Received the following colors in each set:Set 1: urban jungle, mint candy apple, grass never greener, swoon in the lagoon, carols and caviar, centerpiece of attention, midnight delight, sequin scene, a cut above, jingle bellsSet 2: lips are sealed, respond with a kiss, love-note worthy, quill you be mine, under locket & key, well nested energy, sing songbird along, keep branching out, spring awakening, flight of fantasy

I'll start by saying the shipping was impressively fast compared to the expectation that was set, so that was a nice suprise! But then I opened up my USPS box to find 4 packages of 'China Glaze' branded boxes with the Essie polish inside. I won't dwell on that too much though because they were safely packaged and all arrived in perfect condition. I just felt like the inconsistent branding was a little curious and makes me question the seller.Ok from here I was off to a descent start color wise when I saw the first one was a nice shade of pink. Then there was another pink.. and yet another. Each only varying ever so slightly, not enough to warrant all 3 in one shipment. Next I find a bright orange, black, navy blue, gold sparkle, bright blue, another blue, and wine sparkle. This is clearly a lot of polishes no one wants and is really a "you get what you pay for" situation. I am very disappointed at this because most reviews said that was not the case. What a bummer... stuck with a lot of ugly polishes I will never use.. except maybe 1? In summary, I pretty much just paid $30ish for Qty.1 Essie polish. In my opinion this is a waste of money because I could've had 3 polishes I love for the same price instead of 10 I'll never use.

I am pleased with how carefully everything was packaged. Colors are all indeed different, and cost was great, but a few too many in the yellow hues. Am gifting these to a teen, so I’ll add a green & another color to round it out better!

I love this concept. I ended up getting a good mix of colors, all which look great. There was one bottle that looked bruised but it wasn’t cracked or anything. I would purchase this again. Can’t beat the price even if you only get a few colors you like it’s still cheaper than buying individual bottles.

I bought a set about a year ago and they were all beautiful colors with no repeats. The most recent set I bought, just a couple of months ago, had dull colors, repeats, and a bottle that had a CVS sticker, so maybe these are stolen goods??

Yes, yes, yes! I have 2 Salon style nail polish racks in my apartment, and I have about 150 Essie nail polishes. I started noticing recently you got even though I have a med selection, some of them are getting old and drying out, and rather than just replacing the same colors, I wanted to also freshen up my collection. But unfortunately, when you go to the store or even when you shop online, it feels like it's the same 40 colors that everybody is selling or talking about. And since my collection is pretty expensive, it felt difficult to find anything I hadn't really seen before. I figured for 30 bucks, even if I got five polishes out of the 10 that I liked, even if duplicates of my current colors, it would be well worth it (since 5 new bottles = $45 before tax).Reading through the reviews, it seemed like people were either thrilled or really disappointed with the colors they received, but I found that even the disappointed reviews had colors that I could deal with, and I liked the idea of the element of surprise, opening a package that I ordered but still not knowing what would be inside.Well, I received my order today, and I'm absolutely impressed. There are only maybe three or four shades that were in my collection, and of the rest, there were five that I had never even heard of before. Just because there are only so many colors in the rainbow, I think Essie probably repurposes colors with different names on them, sort of like Yankee Candle does with naming their scents. (For example, I would have bet anything that "skinny dip" was either sugar daddy or ballet slippers, and "lighten the mood" made me think of "between the seats.)I got a nice variety in my selection, and none of them seemed like fillers. Pics attached. I would definitely buy from this seller again!