Baroness X Seadragon

Last month I received the most recent mystery box from Baroness X, and both of them were 100% in my polish wheelhouse.   The first one to jump on my nails is Seadragon.

Baroness X Seadragon
indoor, bright CF lighting
Seadragon is a bright oceanic blue jelly - just the tiniest suggestion more green-leaning than cobalt or Klein blue - liberally sprinkled with the red-to-green shifty shimmer from Clarins 230 and iridescent flakies.

Baroness X Seadragon
indoor, window-filtered overcast daylight
Some of the mystery boxes arrived with a jelly undie for the blue polish, others with an undie for the teal polish.  I got the latter, so I'm showing Seadragon at 3 coats solo, which was perfectly visually opaque to my eyes.  It's pigmented enough to really work as a topper only for things in a similar color scheme (anywhere from blue to purple), but I much prefer this ocean color solo rather than darkened up with a more opaque undie.

Baroness X Seadragon
indoor, office fluorescent lighting + a stray sunbeam
In bright light, everyone's fave shifty shimmer sparkles to life, while the flakies take top billing in shady lighting.

Baroness X Seadragon
outdoor, shady & overcast daylight
My book club meeting this weekend (I'm in two book clubs, btw, because BOOKS) was reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, ironically chosen over the winner for my other book club, Circe.  While the classic tale of submarine adventure is a letdown of a snoozefest, Seadragon's deep water look + this octopus from BM-402 and coiling tentacles from Vivid Lacquer VL042 was right on point.

Vivid Lacquer VL042
indoor, CF lighting
Baroness X Seadragon
indoor, bright CF lighting
Rating:  4 out of 5 stars for this sparklefest under the sea.  My only gripe is that like so many makers, Baroness X has gone to the wide, flat paddle-shaped brush that most people really like.  I make a huge mess with those brushes, and saturated blues like this one tend to cling tenaciously to cuticle skin.  This is partially my fault, though, since she's offered to ship with smaller brushes on request, and I never remember to request.

Where to buy:  this selection is gone, but the mysteries are shipped every 2 months in 2019 - check out the store here to get in on the next round.

~Michelle

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