Pretty Jelly Celestial

Celestial was released by Illinois-based indie polish maker Pretty Jelly as part of the 3rd Anniversary Trio toward the end of October to celebrate the brand's third anniversary on 10 November. All three of these polishes are full coverage microglitter/flakie bombs, spectacularly sparkly and festive. Celestial bears a mix of superabundant silver ultraholo microglitters and profuse multichromatic flakies in a rainbow of colors, all suspended in a clear base. It's like the flashiest, most colorful opal you can imagine, a roll of purple foil gift wrap, a rainbow and a disco ball all got into one of those telepods from the 1986 movie The Fly and melded during teleportation. You open the door to the receiving telepod, and there's your bottle of Pretty Jelly Celestial.

On the nail, it's just an explosion of sparkles and gleams, brilliantly colorful and ultra dynamic. There's a general impression of purple/magenta foiliness beneath, with bright prismatic sparks of light from the microglitters shooting from the surface and a silvery flash overall. Total eye candy!

Application was wonderful. Creator Liz has always seemed to take great care that her polishes provide the easiest, most satisfying application, and despite its teeming components, Celestial is no exception. The consistency is fluid, dense and eminently paintable with none of the goopiness or stickiness or component folderol that you might expect from such a composition. It has a smooth, self-leveling spread over the nail, likes to go on in medium coats and is surprisingly easy to manipulate with Pretty Jelly's flattened flexible brush. Coverage is excellent -- this is very nearly a one coater for those with a generous hand, and I used two medium coats with an extra tip wrap in between for a completely even opacity. So impressive! With use and exposure to air, the components tend to build up and become a little gummy on the brush, but closing the bottle and giving it a brisk shake returns it to its original state. I did my cleanup, the little that was needed, as I went along and had no problems, although you may see a few free-roaming microglitters around my nail environs in the photos. Celestial dries naturally in very good time to a remarkably smooth finish with just a hint of discernible texture from the components. 

Photos show two coats of Celestial over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite. The unbelievable amount of light play in this polish utterly confounded my poor camera, macro and all. But it pretty much confounds the eye in person too!

Pretty Jelly Celestial

Pretty Jelly Celestial

Pretty Jelly Celestial

Pretty Jelly Celestial

Pretty Jelly Celestial

Pretty Jelly Celestial

Pretty Jelly Celestial

Pretty Jelly Celestial

Pretty Jelly Celestial

Pretty Jelly Celestial

Pretty Jelly Celestial

Pretty Jelly Celestial

Pretty Jelly Celestial

Look at how those sparkly microglitters are doing their dead level best to steal the focus in these photos! My camera compensated by exaggerating the contrast -- in person the look is more homogeneous in terms of light and dark than my photos show. You can see this better plus view all of the pretty colors of the multichrome flakies in Celestial by visiting its listing in Pretty Jelly's etsy shop and hitting zoom for the swatch photo. 

Despite its consummate outrageousness, Celestial is unexpectedly easy to wear. It dries down beautifully to a smooth compact layer on the nail without any shrinkage or tip pull to speak of, even with a generous coat of Seche Vite over it, and just sparkles its little heart out! 

Fuzzy, not known for her love of glitters and such, said, "Well, that's a party." And that it most definitely is!

love,
Liz