Perletones

Perletones or pearl tones are color hues occurring originally on pearls. Perletones are popular nail polish colors that gives your nails a pleasant shimmer on the contrast from matte tones. Perletones on pearls can shift from white and beige to yellow and pink variants, these are the most common ones on both cultured and sweet water pearls. But there are also rare perletones like grey, black and brown (such as fake chocolate pearls). These hues are also available when you're looking for popular nail polish colors. Perletones are not so often used when you're doing or getting a French manicure, this method use matte colors without shimmer though the finish shine because of the top coat. The popular nail polish colors including silver and gold that was used as ancient chinese nail polish, are also a kind of perletones because of their special shimmer and shine! So the fashion of the ancient chinese culture is coming back and is now actually the latest fashion of our days! Every color can be made into a perletone variant if you add a shimmering quality that makes the surface almost reflecting the normal white light and dividing it into its components, that is, actually every color of the light spectrum!

You can compare this effect with the one occurring when you see a rainbow near the sun on a rainy day or when you see a water puddle with oil on it. The effect of a popular nail polish with perletone qualities is of course not as stunning and clear as a rainbow but you get the idea of what it looks like. Perletones are not only found on popular nail polishes but also on some sorts of thin fabrics, on beads (used for example when knitting after bead knitting patterns) and pearls as I mentioned (because pearls are the origin of perletones and the source for the name of this color quality), other types of paint and in pens with ink and eye shadows. So, you can find perletones on popular nail polish, jewelry, make-up, clothes and paint.

It can be applied almost everywhere! Earlier I wrote that the natural perletones are white, beige, pink, yellow, grey, black and brown. But synthetic perletones are available in every imaginable color, also lilac, red, green and others. When you're about to buy a popular nail polish you can often choose if you want the color matte or shimmering, glittering or in perletone. This makes choosing nail polish so much fun and even though two women wear the same color, the effects of the colors can make them appear very different and with totally separate results. You can choose effect on you color according to your mood, what clothes you'll be wearing, weather you're going to work or to a party and so on!