Happy Monday! I have the Lumen Nails Papillon Collection as well as their February Myths & Monsters to share today!
The Papillon Collection release has 9 new shades and among those are 3 Vintage Velvet shades that are like semi opaque crelly shimmers that can be bases to other sheerer shades like a foundation. All of my swatches are shown alone though so you get a feel for the color as it stands.
To see all 10 shades in this post swatched – check out my YouTube video:
We will start with the Papillon collection, and at the end we will view the February Myths & Monsters monthly shade!
I do use clear gel tips for all of my photos and videos. I don’t use a blurring base or anything that will add opacity to my swatches. I know clear tips aren’t “natural” either – but opacity will still show through. If you have a VNL – if you can see through my gel tips with polish on them – your VNL will shine through as well.
Let’s get onto the show… these do release tomorrow and all links will be available at the bottom of this post.
LUMEN Nails | Chelsea Rose
Chelsea Rose is a soft rose pink crelly base with silver and rose shimmer. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
LUMEN Nails | White Truffle
White Truffle is a soft taupe leaning grey crelly with silver and what looks like soft chocolate brown shimmer. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
LUMEN Nails | Birds Egg Blue
Birds Egg Blue is a soft but vibrant sky blue crelly with silvery shimmer. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
LUMEN Nails | Wild Honey
Wild Honey is a honey yellow jelly base loaded with blue to green to violet soft shifting shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
LUMEN Nails | Thistle
Thistle is a pale purple jelly base with pink to gold to orange aurora shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
LUMEN Nails | Morpho Glow
Morpho Glow is a super sheer pale violet tinted base loaded with blue to green to violet shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
LUMEN Nails | Peony
Peony is a vivid, cool toned magenta jelly base loaded with indigo to purple aurora shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
LUMEN Nails | Earl Grey
Earl Grey is a dove grey jelly base with red to gold aurora shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
The shimmer in this builds up the opacity but there’s still some visibility of the VNL through it.
LUMEN Nails | Papillon
Papillon is a super sheer deep purple tinted base with strong red to gold to orange to green shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
LUMEN Nails | Mother of All Dragons (Myths & Monsters for February)
Mother of All Dragons is a sheer almost rusty rose tinted base loaded with pink to blue and red to copper shifting shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Lumen Nails | Papillon Collection & February Myths & Monsters
My top picks for this release are: Chelsea Rose, Morpho Glow and Earl Grey.
Release Date: February 13th, 2024
Where To Buy: LŪMEN Nails Shop | Rainbow Connection | Gracie Jay & Co | Femme Fatale Cosmetics
Price: $12.00 – $13.00 Each | $30.00 Vintage Velvets Full Trio | $70.00 Full Papillon Collection | $100.00 Full Bundle of Vintage Velvets Trio and Papillon Collection (Monthly Myths & Monsters not included in bundles)
Mystery Bags:
Velvet Mystery Bag: $22.00 (2 velvet inspired shades with a total of 6 options)
High Tea Mystery Bag $22.00 (2 tearoom inspired more opaque shimmer shades with a total of 6 options)
Flutter Mystery Bags: $22.00 (2 butterfly inspired shimmer shades with a total of 6 options)
Seed Pack Mystery Mix: $60.00 (will contain 2 shades from each mystery bag for a total of 6 shades)
Butterfly Garden Mystery Box: $200.00 (will contain 20 shades including all 18 mysteries plus 2 exclusive shades to this box)
I will be buying the full mystery box as usual. Will you be picking up anything from this release?
