Pretty Jelly Embroidery
Embroidery was released by indie polish maker Pretty Jelly as part of the Rich Fabrics Trio in September this year. It's officially described as a "rich green scattered-linear holo with golden-green shimmer flecks," and has a medium-light leafy green base swimming with golden shimmers that read as a bright green sparks through the base and provide a certain foily metallic quality to the finish of the polish. Embroidery is filled with finely milled holographic pigment and displays a strong flair in direct sun. In bright indirect light, the prismatic colors of the holo display merge with the base color and show as washes of mint, aqua, cerulean, Persian and
jungle green, with a silvery blue-green foily flash at certain angles speckled with bright golden green sparks. It has a rarefied exotic quality that is hard to describe -- it's mutable and dynamic but also tranquil and soothing to the eye, simultaneously organic and jewel-like, like a tropical fish or a rainforest frog.
Application was delightful. The consistency of Embroidery is fluid, smooth and dense with a lovely balance of fluidity and viscosity for painting and a silky, self-leveling flow over the nail. Pigmentation is very good with evenly opaque coverage building in two medium coats. I used three for this manicure to see if an extra coat would make a difference in the appearance of the polish but it really didn't. These Pretty Jelly polishes are some of the nicest self-levelers I've worked with, and completely camouflage my ridges with the first coat -- outstanding! I had very little cleanup to do and it was easily accomplished with no sticky shimmers or traces of staining left behind. Embroidery dries naturally in good time to a smooth shiny finish. Topcoat does not diminish the holographic properties in any way.
Photos show three coats of Embroidery over Seche Rebuild treatment and Pretty Serious All Your Base basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.
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I'm quite taken with this changeable green holo confection! I adore the gorgeous variations of green and blue green that it displays, and love the silvery gold sparkle that adorns the prismatically nuanced base. It's perfectly beautiful in any light and very photogenic.
Embroidery attracted a lot of attention from my sister and her family, including my sweet niece Eleanor for whom this blog was created, who were visiting for the weekend. I came downstairs with it on my nails to a wave of compliments on the color and finish -- "Ooh! Ah! Green!" -- which delighted the heck out of me as you can imagine. There's nothing like the approving roar of the crowd to make you feel like a million bucks!
love,
Liz
Oooh ahhhh!! It looks great on you! I thought Embroidery looked reptilian or amphibian or something like that. This one also had the longest wear time of the trio for me. Not that it particularly matters, since I change my polish nearly every day. :P And yes, compliments in real life are always so nice!!
ReplyDeleteHee hee, thanks Melissa! You're right about this color -- I've decided that the creature it most reminds me of is one of the Asian tree-dwelling vipers (at least, I think its a viper but obviously I'm no herpetologist) that is a beautiful bright green. Embroidery's jewel-like coloring is of the eyecatching kind that poisonous beasties are clad in to warn other creatures of their potential deadliness. But it's also more complex and lively and exquisite than that! It reminds me of shot charmeuse or shot crepe de chine with its rich mix of colors.
DeleteSuffice to say that one could easily exhaust oneself trying to describe this polish.
I really need to add some of these gorgeous Pretty Jelly polishes to my collection. They are gorgeous and I love each that you've shown. What's not to love about this shade? It's pretty, green, and holo. Beautiful pictures too!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Melissa! She's got a bunch of other great looking holos too -- I've only tried the three from this set and each one is cooler than the last, definitely recommend them and want to try others from her line up as well!
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