Illyrian Prototype 99

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.

Illyrian Prototype 99
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.

Illyrian Prototype 99
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.

Illyrian Prototype 99
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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