Indigo Bananas Cherry Pie

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I am most assuredly on a thermal polish kick, and I've also recently re-sorted all my Clarins 230-type UP polishes into one Helmer drawer, and so by those powers combined...

Indigo Bananas Cherry Pie
outdoor, bright direct sunlight
Indigo Bananas released a trio of UP thermals this past winter, and while I thought I had similar things to the other two, the super juicy pink-to-red Cherry Pie had to head my way. 

Indigo Bananas Cherry Pie
bright direct sunlight
I found Cherry Pie to be a very subtle tonal thermal - I never noticed an obvious french tip effect, though it did appear to be more red or more pink overall in different temperature conditions.  Based on how the swatch photos on the Indigo Bananas store look, with a significantly darker berry-wine cool state, this might well be a dead thermal at this point.  In any case, the formula was perfectly smooth and easy to work with, nicely opaque in 3 thin coats with no dulling of the 230 sparkles by the co-mingling of thermal pigment.  It dried down only slightly matte, but of course a single layer of topcoat brought it right up to a jelly shine.

Indigo Bananas Cherry Pie
outdoor, direct bright sunlight
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars, this is a lovely polish, much hotter and pinker than my wheelhouse but a place I love to visit on occasion.  I gotta be real, Indigo Bananas is a seriously underrated brand!

Where to buy:  direct from Indigo Bananas web store here.

~Michelle

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