Elevation Polish The Arches with Lynnderella Thank Blue and Lacquistry Autumn Flurries

Elevation Polish The Arches with Lynnderella Thank Blue

I was in a colour-nerdy mood today, so I picked a favourite polish as a base then used my colour wheel to find something interesting to layer over it.

Elevation Polish The Arches is a lovely rusty red *crelly* sort of a polish. I don't know if crelly is a real word, but the polish is somewhere between a cream and a jelly, so there you go. This was the first Elevation Polish I bought and I've been hooked ever since. I chose the complimentary colour of The Arches to pair it with - blue-green. I was considering using NailVenturous Floam, but then Thank Blue caught my eye and just seemed a perfect companion. I wanted to create a bit of extra depth and texture in the finished mani so I included a layer of Lacquistry Autumn Flurries. Autumn Flurries is a polish I want to love, but I can't. I think I have some sort of a problem with red glitter, I'm never happy with them, whatever I do. But well down in the mix like this, Autumn Flurries adds a bit of interest.

I didn't take stage by stage pictures of this mani as, to be honest, none of the stages looked particularly attractive until I put on the Gelous, and then it all came together as a whole. I did one coat of The Arches - at one coat this is thin and streaky - and put a coat of Autumn Flurries over that. Autumn Flurries is a lot of reddish microglitter in a tinted red base with a few larger light coppery glitters. Then a coat of Thank Blue, quite thick as I wanted to get plenty of blue glitter onto my nails, followed by a further coat of The Arches. The Arches is sheer enough to let the blue glitters show through, but tones the colour of the glitters down quite a lot, so some of them look shades of darker blue and even green. Even though Autumn Flurries is two coats down, the microglitters twinkle through. To finish off the colours, I dabbed just a few of the glitters from Thank Blue on each nail, taking care not to get anywhere near full coverage. I wanted these last glitters to highlight, rather than drown, what I'd already done. Then I added a coat of Gelous and a coat of SV to make it all smooth and shiny.

More pictures........ first of all in bright light, near a window:

Elevation Polish The Arches with Lynnderella Thank Blue

These show the squishiness of Elevation Polish The Arches and the colours of the glitter quite true to life. You can also see the microglitter from Autumn Flurries twinkling away in the background.

Some of the glitter in Lynnderella Thank Blue is holographic, which adds the range of colour reflections. I've tried to capture this in this picture in rather softer light.

Elevation Polish The Arches with Lynnderella Thank Blue

I purchased Elevation Polish The Arches direct from the creator, Lulu, at her Elevation Polish Shop. The Arches is not currently in stock, but Lulu keeps a list of polishes and their availability on her website. I purchased Lynnderella Thank Blue about a year ago, when the process for buying Lynnderella polishes was different to what it is now. If you are in the US, you can buy from Lynn on e-bay. I understand that Norway Nails are now the exclusive retailer of Lynnderella Polishes in Europe.  Lynn's blog has swatches of all her collections (Thank Blue is from the Funny Money collection) over various bases and more information about purchasing. I got my bottle of Lacquistry Autumn Flurries in a swap a while ago - Lacquistry has an Etsy Shop but this was one of her earliest polishes and I don't think is still being made.