I've mentioned before my sadness over not becoming a polish junkie until well after Llarowe's
P-series LE polishes were sold out, so imagine the rush to snap them up when she re-released them earlier this year. Unfortunately, to put it bluntly, this stuff doesn't at all match the pics of what the original batch was, so I still don't have that lemming. Fortunately, however, what I did end up with is lovely anyway, and rather helps out with a different lemming altogether.
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| indoor CF lighting |
P47 is a rich berry-red jelly, full of Clarins 230/Max Factor Fantasy Fire-type ruby-to-emerald color shifting shimmer. 2 coats got me to this point, and I certainly don't think it needed more than that, but as with all jellies, the more coats, the richer the color. Described as being a vampy red, it does sometimes have a darker on the edges feel to it, but always with a little glow of embers.
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| outdoor, late afternoon sunlight |
That lit-from-within glow just kills me.
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| indirect late afternoon sunlight |
The more direct the light gets, the more fiery those sparkles become.
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| window-filtered daylight |
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| outdoor, bright afternoon sunlight |
The sparkles are ruby red in direct light, and then with a slight angle, they change to orangey-bronze fire, ultimately reaching to emerald at oblique angles.
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| indoor CF lighting |
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| outdoor direct sunlight |
So what I've ended up with here is a rich, flattering, cool red jelly, with an obvious rainbowed green edge to the bottle.
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| indoor CF lighting |
Which is DEAD ON for every picture I've seen of the
hard-to-find OPI La Boheme. Not that I have it laying around to compare, but I'm going to pretend this is my Boheme dupe and try to put that lemming to sleep.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Yeah, it chipped like a jelly after 2.5 days, and it's not at all what I'd hoped it would be, and it had that too-soft mop-like brush that I've gotten on a few Llarowe polishes, but I don't really care a whole lot about any of that in the face of this stare-worthy color.
Where to buy: Hopefully,
Llarowe will bring back the Reno Air Races series someday.
~Michelle
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