Femme Fatale makes a number of polishes with slightly or significantly more chunky holo glitters, and with the recent bout of all sun all the time, I was definitely feeling some holo. The fact that I was feeling like also dealing with glitter, though, is quite unusual and not to be passed up (far too many pretty bottles of glitter sit unloved around here because I don't want to hassle with the removal). Perusing my stash, I discovered an untried sample and a glitterbomb, both with equally nautical names, so surely meant to be together.
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| indoor, CF lighting |
Sound of the Sea, as the bottle says right there, was a part of a sample sale from July 2016. Femme Fatale releases batches of samples periodically, not on any particular schedule, and each of the bottles is a completely unique one of a kind study that may or may not have been developed further to make it into a regular collection. This one "feels" to me like it'd fit in with the color palette of the Birth of Venus collection from that same time frame.
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| indoor, CF lighting |
Veil of the Siren is a beautiful glitter mix of gold, brass, and iridescent round and hex glitters in an assortment of sizes from tiny to medium. There's a slight sandy/milky tint to the jelly base, and I don't know if that extra pigment is helping hold things up, but there was no sinking at all though this has sat on my shelf for quite a few years. I'm wearing 2 dabbed coats on my accent nail, with one thick dab as a topper over the tip half of my pinky.
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| window-filtered bright sunlight |
In most lighting, Sound of the Sea was a light silvery green, almost with a gold flash in the center of the holo arc. With any angling of the light, this became a much more intense emerald green.
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| outdoor, bright afternoon sunlight |
And yet, though it's green so much of the time, I had filed it as a silver polish. Hmmm, things that look silver indoors in lower/incandescent light, then green in brighter/angled light...? Wait a sec...
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| outdoor, bright direct sunlight |
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| outdoor, bright direct sunlight |
The end result is that Sound of the Sea does indeed appear to be silvery with the characteristic pink flash so typical for this type of duochrome far more often than others of this type do.
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| outdoor, direct bright sunlight |
Not that I can ignore Veil of the Siren in favor of my lovely sample! As far as glitterbombs go, this one is very wearable, a gold iridescence that's very flattering to my skin tone, and sparkly without being in your face blingy. I think it'd be a devastating topper over anything in a neutral range - instead of going for classic black to make the translucent glitters pop, a warm brown or deep taupe would be amazing.
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| outdoor, bright sunlight |
The holo dust used in Sound of the Sea is a type that's used in other Femmes in my collection. It's super sparkly (enough to swamp the glitter topper on my pinky almost into disappearing in bright sunlight), with each particle throwing an individual rainbow, but not fine enough to create a holo flame. It's very much an accent element rather than the star of the show. In the macro below, and when running my fingers over my nails, a subtle hammered metal texture is there that I find to be typical for Femme Fatale polishes using this particular holo dust - it's never visible IRL, and though I'm a textured polish hater this doesn't bug me in the least.
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| indoor, CF lighting |
The below pic is pretty much everything there is to know about both of these polishes: both are shifty (gold to iridescent for the glitter, silver to green for the duochrome), both are sparkly, both are lovely.
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| outdoor, direct bright sunlight |
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars for both. These polishes wore well, had great formulas, and are real keepers.
Where to buy: unfortunately, probably nowhere. Veil of the Siren was part of a LE trio from 2013, so very scarce at this point, and the only bottle of Sound of the Sea is right here with me. Femme Fatale continues to be one of my top fave brands for stuff like this, so well worth keeping an eye on
her store or stockists for new releases.
~Michelle
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