KPT hit it out of the park twice - Swimming With Mermaids, my 2nd pick from her anniversary trio is another huge winner.
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| bright CF lighting |
Like Calypso, SWM is a jelly-based thermal rather than the usual opaque shimmer. I'm kind of in love with the idea and really hope she makes more of these - the color is lovely, and the glassy smooth finish is far easier to work with than the rubberized matte that thermals usually dry down to.
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| direct sunlight |
Mermaids is studded with the same silvery holo microglitter as Calypso, but the formula is a little more translucent, needing 3 coats for the saturation you see here.
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| direct sunlight |
All of my other thermals have a distinctly darker and lighter color that really makes the transition pop as a band of color at the free edge. Because SWM's two shades are at about the same darkness, the transition zone typically looked more like a very smoothly done gradient than a funky french tip.
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| overcast daylight |
While this does make it look teal in some lights, when warm this is definitively ocean-blue (not teal), and emerald green (not teal) when cold.
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| being all blue in the window-filtered daylight |
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| being all emerald in the bright sunlight |
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. I actually wish the transition was a teensy bit more obvious, but this polish is an utterly lovely thermal that goes on easy and wears rather well.
~Michelle
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