Wednesday, March 13, 2013

ABC Challenge J is for Butter London Jack the Lad!

Hi everyone! Today is letter J of the ABC Challenge! I can't believe we have all made it this far :) For this challenge all the participants choose a polish name, brand, or nail art technique that begins with the letter of the week. For this week I have Butter London Jack the Lad from last year's winter/holiday collection. It is such a stunner! I liked this a lot more than I expected to.
Jack the Lad is dark blackened green with a ton of bright green shimmer along with a bit of blue shimmer. At different angles the shimmer looks different, making it a really complex polish. I really love shimmery polishes like this but I wasn't totally sold on the green so I put off getting this. I found it in a set of 3 at Nordstrom Rack so it was a total steal. So pretty! 

I believe this was 3 easy coats. The formula is kind of thin but if you don't have much free edge 2 coats would probably be fine. I topped this off with a coat of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri. For my base coat I used a DIY peel off base coat(which is basically just diluted white glue).




I am really starting to adore Butter London. It is slowly heading toward my top 3 polish brands. :) Hope you liked this! Be sure to check out all the other participants and their lovely J manicures! 

xo Elle



15 comments:

  1. It looks stunning! So bright and multi colored fine shimmer...cool!

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  2. Wow! This polish is absolutely amazing!!! I love its shimmer. :)

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  3. Pretty!! It actually reminds me a little of Sally Hansen's Insta-Dri In a Flurry. I used it last week, there both dark green/black with different color glitter. Your nails look so good too!!

    Kelly
    xoxo

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  4. Very pretty - blue shimmer is really coming through on the photos. I have yet to get my first Butter polish; the store near me never has anything like this in stock!

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  5. I love the color here...so pretty! And, btw, thanks for the tip to look for polish at Nordstrom Rack, never thought of that before. Thanks for sharing!

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  6. Pretty? No, gorgeous! It looks absolutely stunning! A great shade for winter :)

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  7. Great colour here! I hope I can put my hands on some Butter London's sooner or later!!

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  8. I am hooked on these dark shimmers! Gorgeous!

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  9. Very pretty and it looks great on you!

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  10. Hi, Elle! Jack's a pretty polish and one that's on my wish list. I'm such a BL fan. Just adore their formulas, especially ones like this...the microglitters.

    They apply like no other polish. Amazing stuff.

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  11. Wow that shimmer is beautiful! It's really a stunner

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  12. That looks stunning!! I don't have any Butter London polishes yet and I'm starting to feel I'm missing out on some great stuff here.

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I would love to hear what you think! <3