After the summer lingered unseasonably warm for months, a switch has been flipped to super chilly here on the east coast. It drives me absolutely bonkers to turn the a/c off then the heat on all in the same week, but hey, that also means it's thermal season.
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
Fancy Gloss released Captured Butterfly as part of the books theme for this past March's Polish Pickup. It's a fairly reactive thermal that on me tends to stay on the warm side - this was the kind of polish that was already turning colors as each coat was still drying. In its cold state, it's a very dark, moody slate teal.
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| outdoor, bright direct sunlight |
While in the warm state it's an unusual violet purple that drove my camera nutty.
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| outdoor, bright direct sunlight |
The funky french tip effect was in fine form, and would have been much more dramatic if I'd left my nails a bit longer. Over both the warm and cool states, Captured Butterfly has a gorgeous bright blue shimmer that I think truly ties all possible colors of this polish together into a cohesive look. Though I'm usually most partial to monochromatic thermals where all states are different shades of the same tone, this one was lovely start to finish with no weird colors in between.
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
The bottle shows a subtle smattering of silvery iridescent flakes that weren't at all prominent on the nail, and only really show up in macro photos. Still, they probably contributed to the shiny glimmer and gave depth to this polish.
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| outdoor, afternoon daylight |
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Between the morpho-blue shimmer and the tiny glistening flakies, this truly was a butterfly's wing. This was utterly opaque in 2 coats (even in the lighter warm state), and the formula was just a hair thicker than my preference, which can be pretty typical for some thermals. It also dried fairly matte like most thermals do, but shined up nicely with a layer of topcoat.
Where to buy: since PPU polishes are one and done, your best bet is to put out a shout in the PPU buy/sell facebook group.
~Michelle
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