Julep and glitter

I really didn't mean to go so long without updating, but I hate only having a couple things to show off at once :/. Tonight I have a few pretty things to show you, at least! I have a couple new Julep polishes I've gotten lately and some very pretty glitter to accent them with!

The first I have is Misti. It's actually a very unique color, a slate blue-gray kind of mix. I definitely don't have anything else like it in my collection. A lot of Juleps I have issues with being too goopy to use without a ton of patience, but this and Libby I had no issues like that with.

This is two semi thick coats of Julep Misti.

I'm not usually a Kleancolor fan, but when I saw the Holo Chrome polish on Amazon for super cheap I knew I had to have it. I didn't realize that the polish has two different colors under the exact same name, a marine blue and a purple. I thought I was getting the purple, but I ended up getting the blue. Still pretty, just a bit disappointing. It's a scattered holo/glitter in a marine blue base, so I layered it over Misti.

This is one coat of Holo Chrome over Misti with and without flash to show the holo.

I recently started a second Julep account and ordered the It Girl intro box, mainly to get Libby and the 50% off coupon they send new Mavens. I had to use Libby right away, but also wanted to use a Victoria's Secret teal glitter polish I picked up awhile ago. Luckily they matched completely.

This is two thick coats of Libby.

Two thin coats of Victoria's Secret Break the Rules added as an accent nail.

The Victoria's Secret polish was easy to work with, but it's hard to mess up a thin glitter like that. 

Anyway, hope you enjoyed! I'll have a couple more Zoya polishes on the blog next entry. Until then.

-T

Holo spam

Had some pretty awesome nail mail the past couple weeks, including a couple Color Club holos. I bought two last year and remembered them being awesome but never thought to buy anymore.

My current mani is using Eternal Beauty, and Angel Kiss as an accent. I love the holo in these, I just wish the colors were deeper. I feel like this would be more suitable around Easter or something.

Two coats CC Eternal Beauty, 4 coats CC Angel Kiss. I was hoping the color would deepen.

I'm a bit disappointed that color-wise, Eternal Beauty is the same as Jade's Fascinio Violeta, so now I may swap that. Jade seems to have more holo, but the application of the Color Club is so much better. I've been craving a darker purple holo so the other day I layered Fascinio Violeta over Julep Sylvia. I really liked the result, but it still didn't quite give me the rich bright purple I've been wanting.

Two coats Julep Sylvia under 1 coat Jade Fascinio Violeta

To keep with the holo theme, a couple months ago I swapped for Layla's Flash Black, which I thought would be a pure black holo. The holo is nice, but at it's darkest it's a charcoal gray. I even layered it over a black creme, which ended up being a giant mess, and still wasn't black.

Two coats China Glaze Black on Black under 2 coats Layla Flash Black

And the last holo on today's post is my only KB Shimmer polish, Rollin' With the Chromies. I was kind of hoping it'd be a dupe for Enchanted Polish's Across the Universe, but this ended up having way more colors than I thought it had. Next time I wear it I think I'll layer under purple and hope more purples will pop through, but the polish is definitely gorgeous by itself.

Three coats KB Shimmer Rollin' With the Chromies. The flash pic is horrible, I'm sorry, but it had so much holo it was unbelievable

I've been wanting to wear some brighter colors to counter the dark weather, so the next batch of swatches will likely be neons!

-T

Blue polka dots and more Christmas nails

I got my Julep warehouse sale order today(only two polishes, but any nail mail=a good day) so I picked up one of the Maybelline Polka Dots collection while at Target. I literally last night saw the collection layered over various colors and wanted to try the blue layered over a light blue, and Bess was one of my colors coming.

This is Julep Bess on it's own. Usually I find Julep polishes on the thick side, this was just the opposite. This was two fairly thick coats and you can still see through it.

This is a coat and a half(extra dabs) of Maybelline Blue Marks the Spot. Usually I hate glitter toppers because I can't get the glitters spread evenly, but this did a pretty great job on it's own. The pieces aren't actually glitter, but I'm not sure what else to call em. I absolutely love this.

Here's a couple more photos from December manis. The China Glaze glitter I like, the holo not so much. I used a random green holo I got off etsy a couple years ago that used to be way darker, and I really thought Jade's Vermelho Surreal was a true red holo, but it ended up a copper red.

Two coats of Vermelho Surreal, and 5 or 6 of the unnamed, no longer made green.

This is China Glaze Pure Joy over Just Be-Claws(red shimmer.)

-Tara