With the 90bajillion untried polishes in my stash, I usually don't even consider an old polish when picking my next color, and there's plenty of faves from before I blogged hidden on these shelves. I guess Mystic Glacier reminded me to consider revisiting another best beloved, because this week Hits Unconventional leapt right at me.
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| window-filtered morning daylight |
Unconventional was part of Hits' Mari Moon collection - a series of 8 duochromes, then another 8 with similar-sounding names that had added holo sparkle. Like all duochromes, it's lovely in shady or lower light, showing a deep sapphire blue wash over a rich berry wine base in direct light.
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| outdoor, overcast daylight |
With barely a tilt of the fingers, the warmer shades start creeping over the curve of your nails, adding magenta, then scarlet.
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| outdoor, overcast daylight |
But low lighting isn't at all necessary. Unconventional absolutely
blazes in bright sunlight, too.
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| outdoor, direct bright sunlight |
Everything from ultra vampy (but never completely black, even in low light) to every shade of plum and wine...
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| outdoor, direct bright sunlight |
...then on through magenta and a flaming scarlet...
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| UNF. DEAD. |
...and finally to a ruddy orange that's not quiiiiite bronze.
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| moar sunlight magic |
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars, simply for the luscious color alone. Hits made notoriously wonky brushes, and my bottle of Unconventional was no exception - using that mop in the tiny 6ml test tube was enough of a PITA the first time I wore it that I bought a backup of the incredible color and decanted both of them into an empty topcoat bottle. The formula here is sticky and took forever to dry (there's a dent in the tip of my middle finger visible in most pics here). This is not a perfect polish, like a 5/5 should be. But are you
looking at that color? DEAD.
Where to buy: once Llarowe stopped stocking them, most Brazilian imports have become very difficult to find. Even if I'm successful in my quest to find this same multichromatic magic in a better-handling formula, someone would have to pry this one out of my cold, dead hands. Try ebay, blog sales, and destashes.
~Michelle
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