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Wednesday, 28 November 2012

NOTD OPI Fresh Frog of Belaire over Julep Leah

Happy Wednesday!

Today I am showing you what I wore over Julep Leah from yesterday. I can't leave anything plain. For today's manicure I added one coat of OPI Fresh Frog of Belaire (what a hilarious name!). This polish came out with OPI's 2011 Holiday Muppets Collection and I've worn it a lot in the last year. Green micro glitter with medium silver hexes. It can give a few different looks to it whether you wear it layered or over different shades of green. Wearing it over Leah kept it bright and funky. I liked the overall look of this manicure! One coat was plenty for some sparkle, but it can be opaque on its own in three coats :)

Now that it is getting near the holidays I am finding myself wearing the glitters from last years OPI collection quite often! I like it when I rediscover older favourites!

Thanks for reading :)

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Julep Leah! Swatch :)

Happy Sunday!

Today I am sporting Julep Leah. I was looking for this polish for quite a while. I am not a Julep Maven, so I would have to pay full price for their polish and I cant justify spending $14 dollars on 7ml. So I hunted blog sales until I finally found it for $4! What a great buy that was!

Julep Leah is a bright grass green with shimmer! The shimmer isn't in your face or anything but its noticeable, and quite pretty. I needed three coats to get it smooth and opaque but I think if I had of done thicker coats, two might have been okay. I did have a little bubbling so next time I will try and keep it to two coats. I have noticed with Julep polishes that when I am painting, polish often drips off the top of the brush onto me or the surface I am painting on. I think it is because the tall shape of the bottle.

I really like the end look of the polish though. Green is one of my favorite colors and this shade didn't disappoint.

Have a nice day :) Thanks for reading!

Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Julep Hayden! My perfect cantaloupe polish!

Hi polish people!

My sister and I have been looking for the perfect "cantaloupe flesh" coloured polish for some time now. Everything I have found has either been too orange, too yellow, too pale, or too dark. Julep Hayden is perfect! I'm so excited! It is the EXACT cantaloup colour I have been searching for! I had seen some swatches of Hayden online, so I knew she had some potential. However, for the size of a Julep polish, I think the price tag is just too high. So when I found this on a blog sale with a few other beauties I snatched it up and couldn't be happier! I can't wait to show this to my sister when we meet up in a few weeks :)

This is three coats of Hayden with no topcoat :)