With the drop in temperature, and sorta warmer days but definitely cooler nights, it's the time of the year where thermals are best.
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
Ghastly was my instant must-have from this year's Halloween release by Baroness X. It's a Thermal that goes from black when cold to barely grey when warm, layered with pastel iridescent flakes and a "sister pigment" to the Clarins 230 type that shifts from green to aqua and blue. The overall effect when the polish is cold is of a deep blackened emerald, or a subtle smoke jelly when warm.
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| indoor, CF lighting, showing cool color |
For the most part, this polish stayed somewhere in the middle for me. Most of the time, it stayed more charcoal than the deep black seen in the bottle, then light dove grey rather than actually clear.
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| window-filtered overcast daylight |
The transition color was plenty pretty, especially in the right light, with the little sparkle flashing off the iridescent flakies.
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| indoor, CF lighting, showing the warm and transition color |
Next time I wear this, I think I'll try it with some light green undies - the name Ghastly is just a little too close to the truth when it's warm, when the not-quite-there grey color makes my nails look just a little corpse-like. Still, it's a totally unique and very responsive thermal, and absolutely worth playing around with.
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars. I'm wearing 2 coats here, though 3 may have deepened the cool color and stacked even more flakies. Wear time was decent, but halfway jelly-ish, with subtle edgewear visible after about 2 days, but only noticeable when my nails were chilly.
Where to buy:
direct from Baroness X.
~Michelle
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