Hubby's Picks (HP33)

Hey Hubby I did it! The only sad thing is that the flash of color change was almost impossible to pick up due to the sunshine suddenly feeling shy. I shouldn't really be shocked. This is Oregon after all. This week's picks were Glitter Guilty In A Round About Way, Picture Polish Warning, Lime Crime Peaches 'N' Cream, and Girly Bits Shift Happens.

You can kind of see the shimmer of the red shift in the above closeup. I love all the swimming glitters in Glitter Guilty A Round About Way.

• First I built up Glitter Guilty In A Round About way.
• Next I taped off the bottom portion of the nail and painted Picture Polish Warning. I went a little thicker on this one to make it a bit more opaque.
• Using a double-sided dotting tool I used Lime Crime Peaches 'N' Cream to do make the dots running the border of the two polishes.
• Finally I topped it all off with Girly Bits Shift Happens. Toppers like this really pull a look together.

That concludes this week's Hubby's Picks. We'll see if he can stump this next week. If you try out the Hubby's Picks shoot me an email and be featured on the next Hubby's Picks post. Email mommydoes @ live . com (removing the spaces of course). Have a great night!

Julep Char vs Revlon Royal

Hey everyone - I'm back for a quick comparison post. Remember how I got last month's Julep box because I spaced on skipping? One of the polishes was Julep Char and when I pulled it out I immediately wondered if it was close to Revlon Royal at all. So I did a comparison (no top coat in any of the images):

So Julep Char is more of a crelly and a deeper, more royal blue. Revlon Royal is a jelly (though a runny one). I definitely like the formula better on the Julep, but their new formula is kind of strange smelling. Both are pretty colors and definitely unique. Neither formula is amazing, but both are worth the work.

To make them stand out I pulled out Girly Bits Shift Happens and Essie Shine of the Times. WOWZERS!

 

Both are fantastic for layering, but I think Revlon Royal takes the cake in vibrancy and showing off the unique properties in each of these polish toppers.

When it comes down to it I think they are cousins. Revlon Royal is the summer version and Julep Char is the winter version. Both are definitely worth owning!

A sophisticate manicure

Gradient plus leopard print equals subtle sophistication with a twist. This manicure inspired by Pam Heil of Girly Bit's love of my gradient and leopard print manicure from this post. Did I fan girl a little when she commented on my post? Alrighty I admit I did.

On the same day I did this post I got the mail and found my order of simple but sophisticated layering bracelets had arrived and I love how they look with this:

The manicure itself is a base of Essie Licorice with a gradient of Girly Bit's Shift Happens down with a leopard print accent in the corner using Julep January and outlined in Zoya Ziv.

I love the look of the color shift over the black.

Until next time!