Tonic Polish is absolutely blowing up the indie world, with every new thing they release being quickly sought after. Lindsey has a great eye for color, so I'm absolutely jumped up onto that bandwagon myself.
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
Slitherin' (which is either a wink to a
very silly horror-comedy or else a play on the most cunning house in Hogwarts, no idea) is a gorgeous golden spring green with a killer blue duochrome shift and a scattering of holo dust thrown in the mix. It appears to be the same very fine holo dust as in northern lights topcoat, so more a scattered sparkle and not a linear rainbow flame. Everything promised in that bottle pic above translated nicely to my nails.
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
In bright, direct light, the shimmer is more golden... then tilts over to aqua and close to blue (not quite as denim blue as in the bottle, though) at angles.
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| indoor, CF lighting |
I'm wearing 2 coats here, and had very good opacity with just that. The formula is just a little tricky - it's thin enough to let all the sparkle and duochrome shine through, which makes it pool in the sidewalls; but simultaneously thick due to being packed with pigment, so it gets sticky and a little fussy if overmanipulated. Ultimately, it's self-leveling and dries smooth, so paint quickly without going over the same spots and it's all good.
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| outdoor, afternoon sunlight |
I stamped over Slitherin' a couple of days later using the fantastic array of Spirograph-type circular images on TU-008 in MoYou Malibu Tan plus CBL Addicts Blue Me Away.
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| window-filtered morning daylight |
Rating: a lovely 4 out of 5 stars. A great color, only sorta tricky to paint with, that wore wonderfully.
Where to buy:
direct from Tonic.
~Michelle
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