Flakie Friday! Zoya Chloe

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Hello Lovelies! Happy Friday!!!!!!!!! Not a payday Friday here, so it's not as exciting as it could be (especially with the ILNP Ultra-Chromes pre-order going live today. Ahhhh I want those so badly!!!), but with Friday comes Flakies, and Flakies always make things awesome.

Today's Flakie is Zoya Chloe, a mix of orange/red/gold/yellow and some green/blue duochrome mylar flakies in a barely pink tinted base. I've been in love with this since the day it was released and am seriously wondering if I am insane since I am just now wearing this pretty. Poor Chloe...she's been neglected.

I've seen Chloe paired with a number of awesome base colors, my favorite being purple, but I really wanted to try her over a dark, but not quite black color. I chose Essie Devil's Advocate, a deep plummy oxblood color.

This is 1 coat of Chloe over 2 coats of Devil's Advocate, topped with Glossy Glam. I apologize for my pinkness here - I'm working hard to moisturize and baby my hands since I'm healing from the evil blistering allergic reaction, which always seem to give me a bit of a pink flush.

Okay, I have to admit it,  I was kind of hoping the darker, plummy base would bring out a little more pink in the flakies, but I was wrong. However, this is still a beautiful combination and I'm quite happy with it. The color shift is truly amazing! How about a macro shot of those colorful flakes?

Gorgeous!!! I particularly love the Green/Blue in this one. That shift to cobalt blue just makes my heart skip. You can see a bit of the pink in the center as well, but with such a deep base color, they end up fairly washed out.

Chloe's formula is fabulous, although she does have a lot of base vs. flakies, which can make holding onto those flakies at the tip of your nails a bit of a pain. Application was wonderful, save for the aforementioned base vs. flakies issue. Dry time was average, and wear is excellent with no signs of wear at around 20 hours. These are Mylar flakies, and a bit thinner than the usual flakes, which means that they lie very flat on the nail. No need for glitter food or Gelous with Chloe. I used a single coat of Glossy Glam here and my mani is smooth as glass. I do need to mention that the tint in the base color does not have any effect on base color at all. It's so barely there that it's essentially clear.

I really wish that I had worn this flakie much sooner. I mean, look at those colors!! I must try this again over a purple so I can really see that pink shine.

What do you think of Chloe? Do you have this beauty of a Flakie in your stash?

I'll return tomorrow with some Indie awesomeness! I have a ton of Indies to share with you, including some new to me brands that will blow you away, so be sure to check back.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber



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Julep Chloe - redeeming the nubbins

Hello Ladies! Happy Friday!! I apologize for my lack of posting lately. It's been busy busy here and I've fallen behind. I have another few posts to share before I'm all caught up. Hopefully I'll be able to post those over the weekend.

Today I am sharing the polish that made me ok with my nubbins again - Julep Chloe. Chloe is a perfect black jelly with (what I would call) Aubergine microglitter. On the nail, the glitter looks more red, which I was a-ok with. I fell in love with this girl in the bottle, and even more so on my nails. The minute I began to apply this, I breathed a sigh of relief! Not only was I happy with the polish, but wearing Chloe made me love my nubbins again! They're by no means perfect; the shape is still far from my preference, my cuticles and fingertips are still a bit dry (at least when I wore this mani. They did improve, but I've been wearing a gel mani the past few days and removal really messed up my cuticles and skin.), and they're still too short to even be called nubbins, but this polish took away my sadness over them. In fact, I couldn't stop staring at my nails! Yay! I wore Chloe on her own for 2 days, and then I added some glittery red lightning bolt tips since I didn't want to take this off, but needed a little change. But that's for another post. Let's focus on Chloe!

Details:
1 coat Julep Nail Therapy
1 coat Orly Bonder
2 coats Julep Chloe
1 coat Seche Vite

LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!!  If you love vampies/glitter, you NEED this polish!

Formula:
As with 99% of my Julep polishes, this baby was flawless. Perfect consistency, perfect opacity, perfectly even disbursement of glitter. I have absolutely no complaints here. I love Julep's polishes. I really need to wear mine more often. I just love them so much that I tend to save them for special occasions.

Application:
Again, zero complaints. Chloe glides onto the nail like butter. The polish stayed right where I put it with no streaking, bubbling, dragging or balding (impressive for a glitter jelly!). I did do some cleanup, but that's because my OCD insists that I try to make my lines as clean and uniform as possible. However, I did not NEED cleanup at all. I'm used to at least a little mess or a little dribble here and there, but this baby was flawless.

I can't say enough about Julep Chloe. I'm one of those polish addicts that just loves Julep. I do get the Maven boxes (I'm an "It Girl"), but I also purchase them outside of those. This is one that I picked up by itself, along with Alfre and Boris and Nicole, and a bottle of Nail Therapy (that stuff rocks!). I still need to wear both of those polishes! In fact, I think I will start wearing my Juleps starting now. I'm trying to show you all the Color Shows, but I think I'll alternate with Julep since Chloe reminded me of why I love Julep in the first place.

I hope you're all having a great day and have a fabulous weekend! Thanks for stopping by, and as always....Happy Polishing!

-Kimber