Square Hue: The December polishes
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Ill have to keep a eye on this one I need the rewards program to make the switch
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Is it bad that I'm keeping Julep for now and joining Square Hue and I'm just going to get the box that I like best each month? If the Square Hue formula ends up working great for me, then I'll drop Julep.
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I REALLY want to sign up, but I think I need to wait until there's reviews. If they had a rewards program like Julep or something, I think I'd definitely have subbed for the discounted price. I love the bottle designs though and the December colors are very pretty!
meaganola
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Yay, just got my shipping notice! I'll report back when the eagle lands.
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Me too.
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I GOT IT!! The colors are even more beautiful than they looked in the previews. They all look smooth, rich, and velvety. Sugar Plum, Champagne Toast, & Holly Berry.
I will post swatches in a few minutes.
I will post swatches in a few minutes.
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I'm not a nail polish expert, but I like these a lot. The bottles are awesome; the base is 1 1/4" and perfectly square, so they're nice and stable. The brushes are good, I was able to do a nice three stroke application, and my nail beds are pretty wide. The polish spread nicely with no obvious brush strokes, and it dried relatively quickly. I did two coats of Holly Berry and Sugar Plum and one coat of Champagne Toast. I used Seche Vite Dry Fast top coat, but the polish was fairly dry before I got to the top coat. Holly Berry is identical to Julep's Sharon. I'm extremely happy. IMO, the intro price is a great deal for this product. Champagne Toast is a gorgeous color that would pair well with almost anything.
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Those are gorgeous colors. I am signing up tomorrow. Sad I missed these colors. 
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I'm not a nail polish expert, but I like these a lot. The bottles are awesome; the base is 1 1/4" and perfectly square, so they're nice and stable. The brushes are good, I was able to do a nice three stroke application, and my nail beds are pretty wide. The polish spread nicely with no obvious brush strokes, and it dried relatively quickly. I did two coats of Holly Berry and Sugar Plum and one coat of Champagne Toast. I used Seche Vite Dry Fast top coat, but the polish was fairly dry before I got to the top coat. Holly Berry is identical to Julep's Sharon. I'm extremely happy. IMO, the intro price is a great deal for this product. Champagne Toast is a gorgeous color that would pair well with almost anything.
meaganola
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Holy crap, gang, mine are here, too. I live in Portland. There were sent first-class from Miami. I don't get stuff from *Julep* (three hours away) as quickly as this one. And the labels on the bottom of the bottles have the date on them! I love that little touch. I always look at certain other limited edition things and try to remember when I got them. Sometimes (certain perfume oils) the label indicates that, but other things (pretty much any color cosmetic) does not.
ETA: I have to say that I normally *hate* red nail polish on me (I feel *phenomenally* awkward on traditional nail polish colors), but this is gorgeous, and the metallic finish makes it not feel like an expected color, so I might actually feel comfortable wearing it. I'll be wearing champagne toast tomorrow, but I might end up going for holly berry this weekend! It's also going to make a great winter pedicure color once I finally get around to getting one. (Also, it seems like the only pictures up on Instagram for this company are *from* this company or someone affiliated with them -- except for my one back-of-the-bottle shot. I feel weird about that.)
ETA: I have to say that I normally *hate* red nail polish on me (I feel *phenomenally* awkward on traditional nail polish colors), but this is gorgeous, and the metallic finish makes it not feel like an expected color, so I might actually feel comfortable wearing it. I'll be wearing champagne toast tomorrow, but I might end up going for holly berry this weekend! It's also going to make a great winter pedicure color once I finally get around to getting one. (Also, it seems like the only pictures up on Instagram for this company are *from* this company or someone affiliated with them -- except for my one back-of-the-bottle shot. I feel weird about that.)
meaganola
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Oh, wow, champagne toast looks almost *silver* on me. I have a serious silver nail polish obsession. I have no problem throwing down the funds for Deborah Lippmann or butter London if I like the color, so this one alone is worth the $15 that the box cost, at least to me. *So* happy with this one!
(I just realized our annual holiday luncheon with bank higher-ups is Thursday. I'll wear the red then. They don't know I usually wear not-exactly-office-appropriate colors, so I might as well keep them in the dark one more year since I have this gorgeous polish that needs to be worn for a special-ish occasion!)
ETA: The more I look at this polish, the more I love it! In the bottle, it looks like a very lovely champagne gold, but I'm starting to see a bit of a pinkish cast to it, too, almost like... pink champagne! I was thinking it was similar to Julep's Sienna, which was the first gold I could wear because of how cool it was, but this one is even cooler. They are *completely* different. This is my new favorite gold. I could (and probably will) wear this with everything I own. I can't get the picture to show up in this post, but here is the photo on Instagram (and I am *clearly* not a nail blogger, so apologies in advance for uneven nail lengths and an overall messy mani, but I just *had* to get the picture taken before my kitties realized I had freshly-painted nails. I took and posted the photo with my phone, I couldn't see all of the problems around the edges until I just looked at the triple-the-actual-size photo on my laptop!).
I've got some more thoughts on this subscription (specifically comparing them to Julep and why I think that this will be my preferred nail polish sub), but I think I need to work on them before I post, and they will most likely just end up in my blog once I get everything laid out (and some more swatching done because I think I need to have swatches of *all* of them instead of just this one before I make that post). *So* glad I went for it!
(I just realized our annual holiday luncheon with bank higher-ups is Thursday. I'll wear the red then. They don't know I usually wear not-exactly-office-appropriate colors, so I might as well keep them in the dark one more year since I have this gorgeous polish that needs to be worn for a special-ish occasion!)
ETA: The more I look at this polish, the more I love it! In the bottle, it looks like a very lovely champagne gold, but I'm starting to see a bit of a pinkish cast to it, too, almost like... pink champagne! I was thinking it was similar to Julep's Sienna, which was the first gold I could wear because of how cool it was, but this one is even cooler. They are *completely* different. This is my new favorite gold. I could (and probably will) wear this with everything I own. I can't get the picture to show up in this post, but here is the photo on Instagram (and I am *clearly* not a nail blogger, so apologies in advance for uneven nail lengths and an overall messy mani, but I just *had* to get the picture taken before my kitties realized I had freshly-painted nails. I took and posted the photo with my phone, I couldn't see all of the problems around the edges until I just looked at the triple-the-actual-size photo on my laptop!).
I've got some more thoughts on this subscription (specifically comparing them to Julep and why I think that this will be my preferred nail polish sub), but I think I need to work on them before I post, and they will most likely just end up in my blog once I get everything laid out (and some more swatching done because I think I need to have swatches of *all* of them instead of just this one before I make that post). *So* glad I went for it!
