Stubble Jumper was created by indie polish maker Emerald and Ash in collaboration with Courtney of Swatcher, Polish-Ranger and Nail Newscast this past spring as a custom polish. With Courtney's permission, it has recently been released to the polish-buying masses as part of Emerald and Ash's Life in Color collection in July. In the North American prairie (Courtney is from Saskatchewan, Canada), the person or farmer who has to jump over the wheat stubble as he walks the fields is known as a "stubble jumper." This polish was envisioned by Courtney as a tribute to the wide-open prairie sky, trees and wheat fields.
Stubble Jumper is a serene medium-light aqua blue crelly with cerulean undertones, sort of like a mixture of robin's egg blue and teal, bearing abundant yellow and green/gold microflakes as well as sky blue shimmers. On the nail, the sweet flakies hover at the surface of the polish and below like a dusting of shimmery yellow pollen, giving the aqua a soft, washed look while the shimmers provide scintillating sparkle in direct sun. On close inspection in indirect light you can clearly see the all of the components and construction of this lovely, tranquil polish. The color of the base is in the same family as Butter London Slapper, but Stubble Jumper has a slightly dusky quality that is unusual for a medium-toned cyan.
Application was lovely. Emerald and Ash polishes come in gorgeous square, heavy bottles with architecturally stepped necks and a relative wide and well-bristled but flexible brush. The consistency of Stubble Jumper is fluid and a little sticky, but goes on easily with a well-behaved flow over the nail that doesn't pool or flood. This polish is translucent and multiple coats are required for opacity. I used three. Cleanup is easy and fairly straightforward. Sometimes with sheerish polishes it is hard to see minor swipes off the nail, but at the right angle the shimmers and flakies in this polish make them easy to spot. Stubble Jumper dries naturally in very good time to a satiny finish that loves a topcoat for gloss and to pop the colors of the components.
Photos show three coats of Stubble Jumper over Seche Rebuild treatment and Pretty Serious All Your Base basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite. As with Slapper, I found this color very difficult to capture accurately with my camera and had to adjust for more green as I edited the photos, thus the slightly green tinge to the surroundings.
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Stubble Jumper has the endearing characteristic of becoming easier and easier on the eye as you wear it. When the sun is low and long rays reach from the horizon, the cerulean tones in the polish grow, the color darkens and loses a bit of the teal green it has at midday and develops a soft golden flash where the light hits. After dark under artificial light it reads as a rich medium-dark turquoise with undertones of jade and fleeting golden sparks. Altogether charming!
love,
Liz
I love this! It's incredibly gorgeous. I could stare at those gold flakes all day! This is another polish that makes me think of mermaids.
ReplyDeleteYou need to get this, Melissa, you would rock this color!
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