Essie School of Hard Rocks

This is probably the polish I was most excited about from Essie's Cocktail Bling Collection: School of Hard Rocks. Essie describes School of Hard Rocks as a "midnight malachite" and I'd say that's the perfect description. It's a blue-leaning green and like the other polishes in this set, it's also got a dusty look to it.

Sorry my nail shapes are all wonky. I cut them down the other day because they were getting a bit too long for my personal taste and I haven't had time to really shape everything out the way I want it yet.

Anyways, School of Hard Rocks has a spectacular formula. It covered easily in two coats and even with my shorter nails, I didn't really have to do any clean-up. School of Hard Rocks isn't what I'd call a true green, but this is a nice way to do green if you don't like super bright shades or you don't want to venture into astroturf colors. (If that is your thing though, check out Essie Pretty Edgy. Personally I like all types of greens!)

I hope Essie keeps up with doing interesting shades like this one. I can really only think of four other greens in the entire Essie line: the aforementioned Pretty Edgy, Sew Psyched, the near-impossible to find Greenport and Going Incognito. Maybe there are one or two more out there-if you know of any, please be sure to share-but that's still a serious lack of greens, if you ask me. As you may already know though, I like the Cocktail Bling collection much more than I probably have any right to. Yes, they're all cremes and yes, I want need Luxeffects but this is a great little collection to keep me happy in the meantime.