Kind of like the snuggly grey sweatshirt I have layered over my PJs right now, Sophisticated Lady adds a layer of coziness to St. Lucia Lilac. On its own, St. Lucia Lilac can be a little stark, a little cold - but one layer of the pretty soft pink with blue shimmer of Sophisticated Lady warms it up a little and makes it feel more feminine and soft.
L: Essie St. Lucia Lilac; R: Essie Sophisticated Lady
The formula on both of these is impressive. I often find pastels to be a pain - thick and chalky or thin and runny. St. Lucia Lilac is neither of these and applied flawlessly and painlessly in 2 coats. Sophisticated Lady is a lovely sheer that is streak-free (I tried it on its own up to 3 coats - not a streak is sight!) and has a little something extra with a blue flash that is unfortunately hard to capture on camera - you can *kind of* see it in the bottle pics.
If these hadn't been easy to apply I would have trashed the idea of doing a mani today, because honestly I feel too icky. But it was completely painless and now that I have it on, I love looking at it! :)
Do you guys ever layer polishes? Do you like some of the effects it creates or is it too time-consuming for you?
My tissue box and I are quite enjoying the Olympics and cheering for the Dutch speed-skating team! I hope everyone is doing well, staying warm, and spending time with loved ones. :) Hubs and I are re-scheduling Valentine's Day to a non-Hallmark-sanctioned day because we can't be together tomorrow. Might be a good thing seeing how gross I am right now...at least my nails are pretty!
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Ooo, that is a beautiful color!
Sorry to hear you aren't feeling well. *hugs* Rest up! (When I'm feeling like that the last thing I want to do is surround myself with polish fumes so you're a braver lady than I!)
I think your polish looks lovely layered. Great colour on you!
I've layered some stuff in the past. It's the closest I have gotten to frankening. :) I think I'm mostly inclined to layer when I'm sponging (though not exclusively).
I hope you're well soon!
The layering is wonderful!
I only layered once (and only one nail): CG Bermuda Breakaway + CG Dorothy Who? - but it killed the fresh vibe from Dotothy Who? so I didn't really like it.
Aw, get well soon!
I only tend to layer glitter polishes over the top of other polishes, I'm not brave enough x
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@mKat - thanks for the hugs! I couldn't even smell the polish fumes and I was so bored but couldnt physically do anything else so it was good. :) Yeah I'm not a frankener (real word? no?) either so this is as close as I'm going to get...I've never been brave enough to sponge! I want to try a gradient mani soon though! (as soon as I can get my hands on some smudge fixer!)
@polishedsheep - thank youuu!! Yeah I was worried SL might totally kill St Lucia Lilac's prettiness like with your layering experiment, but its so sheer that it just softened it a little. If it looked ugly I would have gone *gasp* naked. :P
@Lucy - Thanks :) And I'm going to check out your bloggie!! <3
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I don't layer too often, but sometimes I get fed up at vampy jellies that take too many coats to be opaque, so I'll layer two coats of the jelly over one coat of a black creme. I did hear about a neat trick where you do a coat of jelly a coat of a clear glitter or glass fleck polish, and then another coat of the jelly. It gives it a "ruby pumps - like" texture. I've only tried it once and it took way too long to dry, but I did like how it made the glitter much less obvious than it would be if you just layered it on top.
So pretty!!! Looks great on you. Happy vday! =)
@Grace - I recently tried the trick of layering a jelly over a nude to get rid of VNL - totally works!!
@kelsealaurel - <3<3<3 happy vday to you too my friend!
5 days are impressive. Both chipping-wise and like-wise. I never keep a polish on more then max 3 days. But I'm planning to do a chip test post on my site. :)
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