Brand: ILNP
I don’t often review indie brands, since I don’t buy them very much. But I recently dipped my toes a little deeper into the indie pond and picked up my first ILNP (I Love Nail Polish, of course! Fab name!), inspired by Gym Bag Makeup’s review last year.
Valentina is completely stunning in the bottle: a light robin’s egg blue with a strong pink flash. The shimmer is very fine and the formula appears sheer.
The packaging is very nice: the bottle is sleek and the box is a great touch. It’s the kind of polish box I do keep! The shade name is also handily stickered on top of the box.
The formula is very sheer and the shade is shimmery. It applies very smoothly, but the shade is too sheer for my taste. My swatch shows three coats. This will more likely be a topper for me—I bet it’d look great over an opaque blue, for example.
I wish this was more of a semi-opaque shade, but nevertheless it’s pretty, a bit unusual, and leaves me wanting to try more ILNP! (I did recently pick up another, which should be opaque, so I look forward to swatching it.)
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ILNP Boutique Nail Lacquer is 0.4 fl oz / 12 mL and the retail price varies depending on the shade. The range is generally US$10–12.50 (averaging about CA$15). They also have an Etsy store. The polish is free of toluene, formaldehyde, and dibutyl phthalate (DBP). The company is cruelty-free, vegan, and made in the USA.
ILNP is based in NV, USA.
I almost bought this last week as I loved the name, but yikes, that’s three coats? that would be disappointing as one coat let alone 3, I don’t want to know what 1 looked like! Would look pretty layered as you said, but I don’t think I’d end up using it very often if it was a topper so glad I saw this!
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Yes, the sheerness is quite disappointing, as the color is so pretty, otherwise! Glad you saved some dough 🙂
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Saved some dough, but still spent £100 on an indie spree ha
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LOL!!
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I blame Gym Bag Makeup for my recent ILNP purchases too! XD
I bet this would look stunning over a navy or red creme!
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Yup, I definitely have to try it layered! Red would be interesting! Was it you who was enquiring about red with pink shimmer….? hmm
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Yes yes it was ME! I haven’t found one yet. I saw some that were red with pink frost but not the shifting shimmer that I was envisioning. I guess once I SEE it, I’ll know! 😛
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I feel like I recently saw the reverse: a pink with red shimmer. LOL. Will keep an eye out on this for you!
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Hiya! Not sure if this is quite what you were looking for…but thought I’d show you this new shade from Julep’s December 2017 collection: http://www.julep.com/beauty-box-collections/december-2017/kayleigh-classic-with-a-twist.html
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OMG!!! 😱 Of course it’s Julep! 😍 Thank you for remembering. I will have to check this out!
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I have a polish that’s pretty much the same colour – I need to locate it!
Yes, try this one as a topper over a light to medium blue polish. It’ll look amazing!
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Ooh, which one is it?
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The brand is called ‘Jess’. The polishes are made in the UK, but they were only (briefly) available at Poundland a few years ago. I have several Jess polishes.
I’ll look for the light blue / pink ‘topper’. It’s gotta be somewhere… 😀
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Ah, I’m not sure I’ve heard of that brand! Will go check it out. I love learning about foreign brands, even though I will probably never get to try many of them 🙂
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I’d never heard of Jess polishes until I found them at Poundland. I think the only people who’ve ever heard of this brand are beauty bargains hunters in the UK. 😀
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I like polishes like this. Simple yet elegant! 🙂
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😀
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I need this in my life!!! xx
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You do! 😀
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Your photos slay me, they’re always so good! Ultimately I think we ended up feeling the same way about this polish. If it looked the way it does in the bottle I would never take it off!
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Thanks so much! ☺️ I agree, it’d be 10x better if it looked like it did in the bottle!
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Awesome nails xx
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