A couple of months ago, a polish sorceress/horrible enabler in one of my fb groups tipped me off to the magic that is Indigo Bananas' custom for a now defunct group called This Shift is Bananas. Do I need yet another Clarins 230-infused purple polish? Obviously, hell yes.
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
Yeeeaaaahhhhh, there's going to be a lot of pics of this business right here.
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| bright sunlight |
When you ask nail aficionados what the ideal base is for "unicorn pee" shimmers, the clear top winners are royal purple, saturated cobalt blue, or straight up black - cool, dark bases really allow all of the prominent colors of this pigment's shift, from red to bronze to green, to really pop. This Shift is Bananas manages to hit a sweet spot in between all 3 with a dark, smoky eggplant purple. It's truly unique in my stash, and is a deliciously vampy but very wearable color.
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
In bright indoor lighting and of course in sunlight, that 230 sparkle is nicely prominent - the amount of shimmer in the bottle is what you get on the nail. In lower light, you instead get a subtle duochromatic haze, turning it into a pretty and non-traditional/edgy neutral.
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| outdoor, shady/overcast daylight |
Our favorite shifty sparkle is nicely on display here, going from bronze to green without needing tricky light to look great.
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| outdoor, direct sunlight |
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| window-filtered bright afternoon daylight |
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
Now, of course to get the shimmer to be so prominent, this polish is a bit sheer, possibly enough so to be a topper over other blues and purples. This polish is quite buildable, however, deepening significantly with each additional coat. At 2 coats, the color was a lighter, more amethyst purple that was quite pretty, but 3 coats was necessary for even coverage. The 3rd coat brought out the vampy, smoky tint promised in the bottle.
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| outdoor, direct, bright sunlight |
3 coats is of course no big deal when you end up with rainbows like this.
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| indoor, bright CF lighing |
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. This color is a hell yes, and the formula was nice. Indigo Bananas' brush and consistency are winners for me. The overall thickness of 3 coats meant that I had edgewear and a couple of chips on several nails by the 3rd day of wear, and of course dark colors show any wear much more prominently. The color was well worth a touch-up to keep it on a little longer.
Where to buy: this pretty is
currently sold out on Indigo Bananas store, but it may return in the future.
~Michelle
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