When prompted to pick a color for my next mani, the man went with red, specifying a "rosy" sort of shade. Well, one can only do so many linear holos in a row, and this was a lovely change.
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| indoor, CF lighting |
Dulcinea is a polish that utterly mystifies me. I
swear that when I hold the bottle up to angled light, I get that tell-tale emerald green flash of a Clarins 230 type polish... and yet, there is approximately none of that on the nail. I do get a lovely dusting of gold at angles though, so who knows?
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| outdoor, afternoon sunlight |
This polish is almost every shade of red you'd want all in one bottle, so it's a good choice if you can't pick from among all your reds. It's a subtle duochrome, shifting from a more cool rosy pinkish-red on over to a warm brick red, hitting true candy apple right in the middle.
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| outdoor, direct sunlight |
I'm showing 2 easy coats here, and had no problems with application. The current Tonic brust is just a scooch too wide for my slim pinkies, but not as mess-inducing as the flat paddle-shaped brushes, so quite manageable overall. This is of course a red with that degree of saturation that means anything stuck to your cuticles will cling persistently, so careful painting or a serious scrub is in order.
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| outdoor, shady daylight... is that a suggestion of green at the edges?? |
In bright light, the shimmer particles threw off a whole lot of sparkle, while in lower light, Dulcinea had a lovely metallic/pearlescent gleam.
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| outdoor, shady daylight - yes, each of these 3 nails appears to be a sliiiiightly different shade |
To keep this mani going, I stamped with the cool pinky-gold of Esmaltes da Kelly Princess Leia using a symmetrical mandala design from BM-S185. The overall effect was an embroidered brocade, right up my alley.
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| window-filtered daylight |
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| outdoor, shady daylight |
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars, an utterly lovely classic-with-a-twist red that should be wearable by many skintones because of it's subtle shifting properties. This had a great formula, and wore decently, with only minor tipwear after several days.
Where to buy:
direct from Tonic Polish.
~Michelle
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