essie gel couture fairy tailor Comparisons
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essie gel couture is one of the most popular long wearing polishes among our readers and a personal favorite formula of mine.
What I like most about the gel couture line is it only requires 2 steps - a color coat and a top coat. No base coat is needed. The elimination of the base coat reduces your manicure cost and it decreases the time you need to spend maintaining your nails, so it improves your efficiency.
The gel couture polishes are also gorgeous, and the gel couture top coat I often pair with other brands of polish to extend their wear.
fairy tailor is one of the most well known gel couture colors, as it is a sheer light beige that gives your nails a slightly elevated, yet subtle and elegant appearance.
There are other essie sheer shades that can help you achieve this look though, and in this post, we’ll cover them.
Below you’ll see swatches of fairy tailor, followed by comparison swatches to gel couture matter of fiction, gel couture of corset, mademoiselle and sugar daddy, both standard wear polishes.
These shades are all designed to be sheer and offer even coverage in 2 coats, though you could do 3 coats for fuller coverage.
The key is to notice the color differences in the polishes, as that’s where each of these polishes mainly differ from each other.
Also keep in mind that with the standard wearing essie formulas, a base coat is encouraged so that will add a step. When paired with long wearing base and top coats, these standard wear colors will give you longer wear times.
We’ll start with the long wearing gel couture colors, then move into the standard wear essie shades.
Let’s start by looking at swatches of essie gel couture fairy tailor:
fairy tailor is sheer light beige with subtle warm pink and milky white undertones.
Now let’s compare it to other essie favorites:
essie gel couture fairy tailor vs matter of fiction
matter of fiction is a medium coverage sheer soft, light pillow pink with milky white undertones.
Compared to fairy tailor, it is much more pink dominant and cooler toned, with no neutral tones at all, whereas fairy tailor is much more of a warm neutral sheer with subtle pink tones.
essie gel couture fairy tailor vs of corset
of corset is a sheer medium beige with chestnut brown undertones. Compared to fairy tailor, of corset is a darker, warmer beige with no milky undertones.
essie gel couture fairy tailor vs mademoiselle
mademoiselle is a sheer light pink with milky white undertones. Compared to fairy tailor, it’s much more of a light milky pink, with no neutral undertones, so it wears a bit cooler than fairy tailor.
essie gel couture fairy tailor vs sugar daddy
sugar daddy is a sheer warm pink with peach and light milky white undertones. Compared to fairy tailor, it’s slightly lighter in tone and has more peach to it.
All in all, matter of fiction and of corset are sheer long-wearing shades like fairy tailor, but they differ from fairy tailor in that matter of fiction is a pink shade and of corset is a deep rather than a light beige.
mademoiselle and sugar daddy, on the other hand, are equally as sheer as fairy tailor.
They differ from fairy tailor in that they are both standard wearing shades, and they’re both a touch more pink with few to no neutral tones - mademoiselle is a milky pink and sugar daddy is a peach.
Of all of the compared shades to fairy tailor, which of these essie nail colors do you think is most similar?
Personally, I think the closest match is sugar daddy, and though the fairy tailor is more of a light beige, they’re both warm, light sheers.
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