Completely breaking my tendency to switch between deep colors to lighter or more neutral ones, this go round I decided one vampy dark shade deserves another.
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| indoor, bright CF lighing |
In preparation for a big Harry Potter themed collection, Pahlish released several of the polishes as test batch mysteries in 2016, and I was quite pleased with both I ended up receiving. The Boy Who Lived is a rich royal purple packed with several different types of shimmer, and an electric blue microflake.
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| indoor, CF lighting |
As you can see with the above bottle macro, the polish is fairly sheer though it's a quite saturated color. I needed 3 coats for opacity and to build the color to the bottle shade, but test run or no, this went on smooth and easy, 100% ready for prime time.
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| window-filtered bright sunlight |
It'd been a while since I wore a stamped mani, and felt like something geometric. The man had picked "pink and green" as contrasty colors, and I nudged that a little into the minty sage green of Esmaltes da Kelly Carmello, filled in with Emily de Molly rose gold on the accent nails. Both of these square designs are from MoYou London Deco 01.
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| outdoor, bright sunlight |
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars, a pretty excellent purple. Edgewear was only noticeable a few days later because of how dark this color is, and overall both the formula and the brush and the sparkle were great.
Where to buy: I believe each of these test batch mysteries were later released as stand-alone individual polishes, and sometimes
Pahlish re-releases old faves in her store. Even if this one isn't there now, it's worth checking back periodically... or else, of course, haunt destashes and blog sales.
~Michelle
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