Beauty Misanthropic

1 coat Essie Ridge Filling Base Coat
3 coats Sinful Colors Love Nails 282
2-3 coats Julep Carly on accent nails
1 coat Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food
1 coat Sally Hansen Ultimate Shield

Sinful Colors Love Nails is a drugstore budget polish in a transparent dark teal semi-metallic.  Not a great formula, 3-4 coats for opacity, goes on streaky and a little thick (even though it's so see-through).  Considering you can buy Sinful Colors polishes for $2 or less though, I'm happy enough with it.

Julep Carly is a dark teal (leaning more blue than green) glitter polish in an essentially clear base (it may be a bit blue-tinted, but it goes on transparent from what I can tell).  Small and very small hex glitter, medium to high density.  3-4 coats will be mostly opaque, but you may want a base color to make it easier to remove as well.  Formula is pretty good for a dense glitter, but also a little thick.


Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food is a top-coat for smoothing out the appearance of glitter polish.  It can also be poured into bottles of glitter polish that have "gone flat" to make the glitter suspended evenly again.  So far I am finding it effective, it did significantly smooth out the top coat, and may have done even smoother with another coat.

I love aqua colors and Julep Carly is a very bright, seductive color. Super flattering and pretty on anyone.  It's a cheerful, very showy manicure in the sunlight, but I think it really stands out as an evening color.  Fabulous pick for a dressy night out, it looks amazing under artificial light and I personally like it better as a nighttime polish.