Today I have for you Julep's Portia, which is also from my March Boho Glam Maven Box. Portia is a light blue sheer filled with tons of glittery sparkles.
This is one of those polishes where swatches are super useful because it looks quite different on the nail than in the bottle. Portia's base looks distinctively blue in the bottle, but once on the nail, it is so sheer that the base color does not really show through. It is a mostly clear glittery polish, best used as a topcoat over another color. I tried Portia over Alicia in my swatches. You can see that Portia toned down Alicia's ultra bright color and added some lovely sparkling complexity.
Portia has a great formula and is easy to apply, and it dries to the touch in only a minute or two. The glitters tend to clump together on the nail during application, but that is pretty typical of glitter polishes. I find that dabbing some extra polish on the bald spots and then lightly smoothing it out helps to get even coverage.
That's all for today! Hope the rest of your week is fabulous! <3
This is GORGEOUS! I got the Bombshell box this month, but I just placed an order for Portia...great swatches!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the lovely words! Yay I'm glad you're getting Portia; she's really beautiful! :)
Deleteohhhh This colour combo is pretty!! I love this :)
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DeleteI'm loving Alicia but I'm disappointed that Portia isn't more distinctly blue. I was hoping to do a mani with Alicia and Portia as an accent nail, but it's not what I expected it to be! Both colors look great on you though, Yun!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Nicole! <3
DeleteI tried an accent nail for Portia over Alicia too, but without the blue hue showing up, Portia over Alicia didn't look too interesting next to just Alicia. But I did like the combo for all my nails. :-)
~ Yun
Love this, such a gorgeous layering polish!
ReplyDeleteYes, it's great for adding a little shine to any polish! :-)
Delete~ Yun
OOOH this one is pretty! i love how you layered it :D
ReplyDeleteThanks, I'm glad you like this! :-)
Delete~ Yun