Hi sweeties! Happy Friday! It’s colder than a witches teat here in PA, and I’m just counting down the days until it warms up again. I hope y’all are keeping warm! For today’s manicure, I really wanted something vivid. I didn’t like the base color I chose but didn’t want to start from the beginning, so I ended up layering and dabbing and stamping until I liked it!
So that Julep bottle I’m holding is the polish I used as my base color, Ariana. I originally was going to just wear that alone, but I didn’t like it so much. It’s a berry-leaning eggplant purple with a lot of silvery shimmer, and the formula was pretty crappy – gloopy but weirdly thin, and it took forever to dry. Anyways, I decided that instead of starting over with another mani altogether, I’d just throw a bunch of other stuff on it until I liked the result! 🙂
So I layered Orly’s Purple Poodle over that Julep, and I just love the result! Purple Poodle is this raspberry jelly polish with some purple and blue microglitter, and it really warmed up the Julep polish but still let a bit of shimmer shine through. I know I slapped some other stuff on top of that combo, but you can see it at the base of my nails and behind the stamp.
And can we just talk about those flakies?! I am officially deeply in love with multichrome flakies! I Love Nail Polish did such a great job with this line – I was lucky enough to win 6 in a giveaway, and I bought a few extra as well since I love them so! I chose one that leaned strongly purple/blue (Luna), and it matched perfectly to the base color!
As you can see in that closeup, Luna leans mostly raspberry purple, but shifts to teal, blue, pink, gold, and a smidge of green! In certain lighting, the flakies blend into the rest of the polish but will come alive if you move your hands. I love it!
I love this above picture just for the bottle shot! I wanted to show you different angles so you could see more of the flakie shift.
Products used:
- Base color: Julep Ariana… as described above – a yucky no-good polish, but a surprisingly good base for this!
- Jelly topper: Orly Purple Poodle… warm raspberry jelly with purple and blue microglitters.
- Stamping plate: MoYou London Suki 04
- Stamping polish: Essie Nothing Else Metals… a light silvery lavender chrome that is perfect for stamping!
- Flakie: ILNP Luna… described and shown in detail above. I just dabbed this over the top half of my nail a few times. It’s amazingly opaque in 2-3 coats on its own, so you see it real well in this mani.
So what do you think? Do you ever do this type of thing for a mani – just layer/ dabble/ stamp and add things until you love it or just have to start over? Are you staying warm this frigid part of winter? Have a great weekend!!
These are beautiful thanks for sharing huni
Thank you 🙂
Your very welcome 🙂
Gorgeous shift on this manicure!
Thanks! Luna really does have a beautiful shift!!
I’m not a fan of Julep polishes either, mine also have that thick but runny formula to them. I love the added touch with the flakies though 🙂
I used to love all my Juleps, but the most recent ones I’ve received have really disappointed me! I think I’m going to use up all my points and cancel soon!
Gorgeous color and I like that accent stamping nail you did too.
Thank you so much! I was pleasantly surprised to get this color after disliking the base polish 🙂
I love your layered base colour and that stamping is gorgeous too!
Thank you so much!! 🙂
That flakie is so pretty! I haven’t been getting my Julep boxes for a long time. I wish they would have bloggers actually review and swatch for them before the colors are released. It would make me more likely to purchase.
Oh I so agree! They only have the one swatch that is shown with 3 different photoshopped skin tones, which is not terribly helpful.
I didn’t know you were also in PA. 🙂 This is gorgeous! Luna is going to be in my work week mani.
Yup I’m in PA – just the opposite side of the state from you! Can’t wait to see Luna in a work week mani!
That may be a hella lot of polish but it totally works!
Thanks! It really is a lot of polish, but I like it too 🙂
gorgeous! And I love the accent, too!
Thank you so much! I love that stamping image – it’s one of my favorites!
Haha! YES! I don’t do it nearly as much as I used to but I used to layer and dabble all the time…it is actually where my blog got its name! This is gorgeous and I love that stamp design!
Thank you so much! I’m so glad you do it too! And that’s cool to know how you got your blog name 🙂
Beautiful! The ILNP flakies are amazing!
Thanks 🙂 I am really loving my ILNP flakies – they are all amazing!
Wow, these are stunning!! The colors in the flakie polish are awesome!
Thank you! I love the flakies so much 🙂
I have a drawer full of Julep, so terrible only like 1 out of 10 is ever any good. Your mani is fabulous, the accent stamp is perfect.
Thank you so much! But yeah, I have a few Juleps that I really like, but so many are so-so or even bad.
I think you ended up with a gorgeous result :D! Sucks the Julep is of such bad quality :(.
Thank you so much! I like the result too 🙂
I loooove those ILNP flakies, this looks great!
Thank you! I can’t get enough of the ILNP flakies 🙂
I really like the effect you got with layering all those polishes, there’s so much depth!
Thank you so much 🙂 I was surprised that I ended up with something I liked a lot too!