St. Paddy's Day NOTD

For St. Patrick's Day I painted my nails with Julep Lucky. They released this for March mainly for the holiday.

Lucky is described as a kelly green and gold coin multi-dimensional, full coverage glitter.

I got great coverage with this glitter polish and it looks really great. When I first got the polish I thought it it was basically Julep Cindy with Vivian but after comparing them I realized they are different.

Enjoy!

Julep Mindy vs Jennifer

When I got my order with Jennifer I instantly thought it looked just like a color I got in my January Maven box. After pulling out Mindy I went ahead and swatched them, they both have some similarities but they are fairly different.

Top- Jennifer Bottom-Mindy

Both colors are suppose to be sheer but it was really hard for me to get a good application with either of these polishes. Mindy is less sheer than Jennifer and lighter in color. Both colors are pink and they can be made more opaque with more coats. 

Mindy- Porcelain pink sheer
Jennifer-Sheer soft pink crème

By the second coat Jennifer is still sheer enough to to see the nail line and it looked okay and probably didn't need a third. Mindy started getting opaque and I could barely see the nail line.

2 coats of each color

The third coat made Mindy completely opaque and Jennifer is almost opaque. After doing these swatches I realized I need to buy some nail wheels for my swatches so that the comparisons will be better.

3 coats of each color

Julep Helen Swatches

Saturday my husband and I went out to dinner with his squad and I was torn between keeping the Julep Oxygen nail treatment on or switching to a color from the February box. I chose the second option and I finally chose Helen.

Helen is a wonderful smoky pastel lavender creme. It is subtle enough that it worked with almost every outfit I picked out for dinner. The color is a little girly but the smoky color makes it work for me.

I tried out the Freedom top coat and it loved that it dried so quickly since I was literally putting it on 10 minutes before I got bundled up and ran out the door.

Julep Evangeline Swatches

This is Julep's mystery holo called Evangeline that they sent out in the Cupid mystery boxes.

So far this is the first holo that I have ever used and I was kind of disappointed that it doesn't have a bigger holographic effect.

I am sure that I might have gotten a better look at the holo effect if there happened to have been some sun out but I am in Germany and it isn't a very sunny place right now. Maybe I'll try taking more photos later in the year when the sun comes out of hiding. 

Overall I love the orange color and it actually dried quickly and it sort of resembles Julep's Minka.

Enjoy!

Julep Mystery Glitter or Erica Swatches

These swatches were done when I was getting ready for the Fasching downtown Feb. 10th. For more info about Fasching this article here has some great information.

This polish has only been released in the New Year's Mystery box and even though my polish did not come with a sticker saying the name other bloggers had mentioned theirs said Erica on them.

This glitter is primarily made up of small black glitter with some small silver glitter, it also has larger copper and gold glitter in it.

I am not a fan of this glitter as much as some others because I easily needed a 3 coat to get full coverage but it does go really well with my black and brown corset that I picked out for Fasching.

Julep Alyson Swatches

I think this is going to be my go to neutral for a while because it looks great and I had great coverage with two coats.

 Alyson is a beautiful Almond crème.

This polish is a lot lighter in person than it look in Julep's online photos.

Just for comparison here is the photo of the polish from Julep's website compared to what the color looks like in my photos. 

Julep Amy Swatches

 Amy is an amazing smoky turquoise creme and is just bright enough for the winter months and it went on easily in just two coats to my surprise. I think this is the perfect turquoise color and I plan on wearing it more often.

 Enjoy!

Julep Julia Swatches

This polish has been by far one of the most difficult to photograph. The main problem is that it looks more purple in the photos then it does the the naked eye.

Without real direct light you can see it looks mostly gold with just a hint of purple.

Julia is a purple with micro-glitter and has a metallic finish to it.

In the bottle it doesn't look all that great but one on the nail it is quite nice.

Enjoy!

Julep Ivy Swatches

This is quickly becoming another of my favorites and I am sure you will see why in the photos.

Ivy is a dynamic sapphire micro-glitter metallic and I am happy to say the description definitely describes this polish correctly.

I tried for a while to capture the hint of purple that shows up every now and again with this polish and I finally did it. The photos aren't great but it is a good representation of the slight purple hue it has.

I am becoming a fan of Julep's micro-glitter polishes and I hope that they make more soon because they have great dimension and color.

Julep Cindy NOTD

I seem to have been in a little of a blogging slump and so I decided to look at all of my swatch photos and NOTD photos and I finally got them edited and ready to upload. Then I realized that this will take a while because I had another 8 blog posts to write. So this post is just the beginning of my backlog.

Now I give you Cindy from Julep, this is one of my favorite colors and I wore it easily for at least a week before I had to change it up.

Cindy is a wonderful green with gold micro-glitter.

Julep's description of the color as emerald green with gold micro-glitter metallic, I wouldn't say that it emerald green but more of a spring/grassy green.

When I needed to change it up I removed my chipped polish and repainted my nails but this time I added Julep's Matte Top Coat and really loved the way it changed the look.

I think I love this polish even more because the matte top coat gave it gave this polish even a wider range.

This was the first time I used the matte top coat and I was very impressed at how quickly it dried.

Now have I given you enough photos??? If you made it this far in this post have fun with the next 7 because most of the posts are photo heavy.