These polishes are all from Jior Couture's Christmas 2014 collection, and each one is inspired by a different Christmas movie. The colors are very versatile - they don't scream "Christmas on my nails" the way you might expect. Which is awesome because, as much as I love a super-Christmasy polish, I like to feel like I can wear my polishes at any time of year and not feel out-of-season.
Believing Is Seeing
Believing Is Seeing is inspired by the movie "The Santa Clause," which I've actually never seen. And even though this soft pink crelly is a Christmas polish, it really looks to me more like a spring polish!
A beautiful delicate pink crelly with several different colors and sizes of glitter, Believing Is Seeing really surprised me. Pink is simply not my favorite polish color, and I've never seen a pink polish that made me go, "Ooh, I need that!" the way most blue polishes do. So I wasn't really expecting to be terribly impressed by this polish, but wow, it is gorgeous! I love the subtle, delicate shimmer in the base (which is much more visible in the flash photo). And even though the glitters look pretty dense in the bottle, they come out pretty sparse onto the nail. I suppose that could be a negative thing for some, but I liked the delicate effect of fewer glitters. More "Oh, what a pretty polish, and look, it has some glitter in it!" and less "Ooh, what a dense glitterbomb!"
As far as application goes, Believing Is Seeing is really great. It's very smooth, and the glitters don't cling to the brush or wipe off the nail. It is very sheer, though, so if you don't want to see the line of the whites of your nail, I highly recommend using a base of white or a similar shade of pink. Otherwise, you might need to build up to 4 or 5 coats; I stopped at 2 on my first two fingers, and went up to 3 coats on my ring and pinky fingers. Three coats is opaque enough that from a distance you can't really see the whites of my nails, but up close and in the photos it's still sort of visible.
I recently got a macro lens for my phone's camera! I haven't quite mastered the macro nail shot the way
The Mercurial Magpie has, but in-the-bottle shots are pretty easy, so feast your eyes!
Son of a Nutcracker
Son of a Nutcracker is inspired by the movie Elf. It's a really fun glitter polish in a pinkish-red jelly base.
I was actually really surprised at the opacity of this polish - two coats was pretty opaque! I built up to three coats on my pointer and middle fingers, but left it at two on my ring and pinky fingers.
Application was pretty nice, but in order to get a nice distribution of glitter I did have to dab a little bit. And I was slightly disappointed at how hard it was to grab those big white hex glitters - there are so many in the bottle, yet I could barely get them onto my nail. But all the rest of the glitters went from the brush to my nails quite easily.
There's an incredibly subtle shimmer in the base of this polish - so subtle that it definitely doesn't show up in my camera even in macro mode, but if you look really closely in person, it's there! I think subtle shimmers are one of my favorite features in nail polish.
Means A Little Bit More
Means A Little Bit More is inspired by the movie How The Grinch Stole Christmas. (The cartoon or the live-action version? I'm not sure, but either way this polish nails it!) Of these three polishes, it's definitely the most Christmas-y, but I still think it would look nice in a mani any time of year!
Its green jelly base is very sheer. If you want complete opacity, you'd probably need at least 5 coats of this one - or just use a base color. I have three coats over naked nails here and, although my nails are tragically short after a ghastly break, you can still juuust make out a little bit of the whites of my nails at the tips. The break that I suffered led me to cut my nails down so short that there's barely any whites left - and on my middle finger, one side broke so far down that I wasn't able to cut it into an even shape. It was heartbreaking :(
Anyway, the polish! I absolutely loved this one. Application was super, super smooth - the glitters landed where I wanted them to and stayed in place, and it was nice and easy to get a good distribution of every size and color of glitter! Pink, blue, red, silver, they're all there looking super festive and pretty. I really like the sizes of these glitters - I think smaller glitters apply easier and look a bit better on my nails. That's not to say that I completely dislike larger glitters - you all know that I love a good crazy glitterbomb! - but sometimes it's refreshing to use a, for lack of better word, simpler glitter polish.
So, that's it for this post. These polishes are all available for purchase at jiorcouture.com, and they're on sale because they're going to be retiring this week! If you're interested, hurry over to the shop! There are three other great-looking polishes in this collection.
What are your favorite Christmas polishes? Do you ever miss pairing traditional Christmas colors together throughout the spring and summer? Let me know in the comments!
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