With the fantastic weather this week, I was feeling summery-bright, the man voted for red polish, and this beauty was sitting on my mani table having just arrived...
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| indoor, CF lighting |
As far as my sleuthing around the interwebs could illuminate, Illyrian released Prototype 99 as a 2017 Black Friday LE that also ended up going to a couple stockists. It's a super subtle duochrome of the sort that looks different in different lighting, but doesn't show any shift on the nail.
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| window-filtered bright daylight |
Overall, it's a cool-toned berry red, and the bottle color where it's closer to magenta is just as color accurate as the blazing scarlet in this sun shot. There's also a light dusting of aurora pigment in there that had a sparkling lime green flash in the bottle, but again, not obvious on the nail as a shift, but as a component of the lush glow. 99 had a nicely behaved formula that was 100% opaque in 2 coats.
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| outdoor, bright afternoon sunlight |
I stamped here with Esmaltes da Kelly Pleiades using a starburst leafy pattern from Creative Shop 77. The plate has to be one of my all-time faves, with a beautiful mix of geometric, floral, abstract, and paisley designs. The stamping polish not so much - I wanted an opaque gold holo, but Pleiades is more greenish-tinted than true gold, and not as opaque as a stamping polish really needs to be.
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| indoor, bright CF lighting + the only glimpse I could get of the green aurora flash |
Rating: a color this glowy gets 4 out of 5 stars from me. It was perhaps more pink than i wanted, but that lit-from-within thing is lovely as always. Wear time was decent, with only minor edgewear and a small chip on my dominant right hand after several days.
Where to buy: though this was an LE, it's still available
at some of her stockists, including
Beautometry.
~Michelle
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