Julep is an interesting company. They have some really, really neat products and do a monthly subscription. Some hate the fact they've changed how the monthly subscription is (skipping options changed for the newly subscribed), and they're changing the square caps. Feb's box was a hard one for me to decide since there's a few different box options. I figured the Boho Glam was the best one to pick, and get addons. I wanted to try the new eye shadow and the Stardust texture polish. I'm going to cheat a tad and use/expand on my review/swatch post from /r/BeautyBoxes.
All the polish! Love, Cameron, Rooney, Glam Roc (addon), Goldie (addon).
Eye sheen in warm fig.
Jar Label, the container product matches the box top color. I'm smart and dropped the jar out of the container. Fig goodness went e.v.e.r.y.w.h.e.r.e. Barely any survived, ugh. Good news is that it didn't shatter the jar, didn't stain the tile, nor ceramic. I started cleaning (cuz explosions) and forgot to take a picture of them together.
Swatch doesn't show the very fine silver glitter, which isn't obvious, but it's very pretty.
Love : Jane’s gift- Gold, pearl & fuchsia microglitter
2 coats, Orly Liquid Vinyl on ring finger with 1 coat over. Love was a bit thick (thickest one of this months colours I got), but dried like normal. Very smooth finish. Initially I thought it was similar to Maybelline's Gilded Rose, so here's some comparisons. Are Julep's Love and Maybelline's Gilded Rose dupes? No. They use different accent glitter, Julep is small-sized red, Maybelline's medium-sized light pink. They have the same gold shimmer base.
Index: Julep, Middle: Maybelline, Ring: Julep over Orly Liquid Vinyl, Pinky: Maybelline over Liquid Vinyl.
Goldie : Full-coverage gilded microglitter
2 coats, Orly Liquid Vinyl on ring finger with 1 coat over. I loooooooooooove this colour. *_____* So shiny!! So glittery! Spoiler alert: I had a nasty time getting the glitter off. It'd come off the nail great! But if any got on my skin, good luck and scrub.
Cameron and Rooney. I use an OttLite, so the lighting in the pic looks goofy from it.
Rooney : Walnut bark crème
Polish looks more 'grey' in the bottle than on the nails. Lighting was goofy for the first Rooney pic. 2 coats, ring finger is 1 over Orly Liquid Vinyl. Really streaky, should have gone with 3 coats. Dry time was the longest of this box.
Cameron : Silver lilac stardust (matte glitter)
Ring finger is the same, 1 coat blahblah. This is also very pretty in person. It's like a pale lavender crumbled aluminum foil, and my pic isn't showing how good it really is.
Glam Roc : Midnight purple & gold stardust (matte glitter)
Next to OPI Alcatraz....Rocks. I wanted to compare, they look basically identical in the bottles. And these names are too similar. Geez guys.
One coat of Alcatraz....Rocks on ring finger, 2 coats of Julep on the rest.
3 coats of Opi on ring finger, and thumb is 1 coat of Julep with 1 of Opi over it. Opi is -just- a tad more shiny/less matte than Julep, and it requires 3 coats to be as dark as Julep (which only needs 2). I personally consider it a dupe.
Here's the kicker: Are L'oreal Too Dimensional?, OPI Alcatraz...Rocks!, and Julep Glam Roc all dupes? Yes, and no. L'oreal has more gold shimmer than the other two, Julep is the deepest and darkest, Opi is the most glittery and has more depth.
L'oreal looks so different to the other two. One layer comparison:
Ring finger is one coat of Julep, middle is L'oreal, ring is Opi, pinky is L'oreal.
Two coats, and the similarities are very apparent. Overall this was a very good and interesting month for Julep!
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