New to the scene Bee's Knees Lacquer is making a big splash all over my nail polish FB groups, with a whole lot of the oohs and aahs being about this home run, House on Haunted Chill:
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
Chill is a true chameleon, looking all kinds of different in different lighting - i.e., both the bottle shot above and the macro below are color-accurate though they look completely different. First, we have a cool, medium-blue jelly base that's quite easy to work with; no pulling or sticky texture on the 2nd or 3rd coats. Then, we have this utterly incredible multichromatic shimmer that's pretty damn near metallic in its light-reflecting flash, and shockingly doesn't stick too crazy bad to your cuticles to make cleanup impossible (though a later good scrub did help get the last stragglers). Nice! Note that the super shimmer did make this 100% opaque IRL, the above pic just happens to be the sort of angle where the camera "sees through" the shimmer and makes it look like VNL is there. It's not, promise.
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| indoor, CF lighting |
That shimmer tilts everywhere from pink to lilac to gold to turquoise to green. It's utterly amazing - easter eggs or Mardi Gras in the full spectrum all at once. While in indoor lighting of most kinds, the shimmer looks like microflake or glass fleck particles, and then in shady lighting, it all melts together to the most gorgeous metallic foil, with an obvious pastel color shift arcing across the nail. Swoon.
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| window-filtered daylight |
I could only stamp accent nails in thin patterns in an effort to not mask it too too much, and picking out a stamping color to compliment a multichrome is always tricky. I've stamped my middle & ring fingers with Esmaltes da Kelly Maria using a mandala design from Kads 014, and I think it worked out nicely.
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| outdoor, bright sunlight |
Bonus points for this wearing like iron, with no chipping or edgewear visible after several days.
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| window-filtered daylight |
Rating: an utterly flawless 5 out of 5 stars, House on Haunted Chill is an absolute winner that lives up to the hype. I've already bought the "purple version," Friend From Work.
~Michelle
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