I usually love Essie polishes. I own a fair number of them in a variety of finishes (sheer, opaque, etc.) and I've always been happy with the application, colour and lack of chipping. This, however, is awful. After one coat, a lot of polishes are a bit streaky; that's fine. After two coats of this stuff, I started to worry. I very carefully applied three coats of Marshmallow and it still looked streaky and awful. This was over the Essie ridge-filling base coat, which I really like and has always played well with other polishes. I used my usual Sally Hansen Insta-Dry top coat over it.I'm giving it two lippies instead of one because after five days (I haven't had the chance to remove it so I've been stuck with this awful manicure fail over the long weekend) it still hasn't chipped, not even along the tips of my nails. So it's ugly, but at least it's not getting any uglier.