Bright holos, lots of rain lately, themed nails galore... time for a major palate shift!
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| indoor, CF lighting |
Llarowe released Boot Scootin' Boogie in 2017 for San Antonio's hosting of The Indie Shop. Well, since I'm a Texas gal at heart, and this color is just smashing, it came home to me ASAP (though of course lingered unworn like so many gems do).
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| window-filtered direct bright daylight |
I had the chorus of that damn country song stuck in my head every time I looked at my nails, and it was
still worth it. Boot Scootin' Boogie is a gorgeous plum wine - is it purple or is it red? who knows! - with an intense overlay of contrasting duochromatic shimmer and a very light dusting of scattered holo.
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| outdoor, bright afternoon sunlight |
In the bottle, that contrasting shimmer overlay is a rich metallic copper, quite warm, that definitely pulls the whole look toward a red-toned purple wine. Fascinatingly enough, BSB is a secret duochrome with that same shimmer particle tilting toward plum then into legit blue in angled lighting.
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| indoor, CF lighting - note the blue and green shift to the shimmers in the curved part of the bottle, and the dark purple look on the nail. |
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| outdoor, afternoon daylight |
In the above shot, you can see the shimmer leaning from gold in the more direct light toward a suggestion of green and blue. The fascinating blue shift to the shimmer was readily apparent IRL but challenging to pick up on camera at full intensity due to the angles that best brought it out. In certain lighting, this blue shift caused the whole look to be a more dusky plum purple (below).
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| window-filtered bright daylight, showing silvery blue shift |
I'm wearing 2 coats + topcoat here for flawless opacity, and the formula gave me zero issues. Brush, color, shimmer, everything was all good with this bottle of wine.
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| window-filtered bright daylight - showing the shift from blue to gold in the shimmer! |
The blue shift to the shimmer reminded me that one of my Sinful Colors fluid nail art polishes is royal blue, so I've used that one plus Dance Legend's white fluid polish, a pink shimmer, and a copper holo to make some decals snipped out of the whole polish blob wherever the swirls and foamy cells were best. As with the last time I tried this, it seems that the foaming properties of these polishes diminish over time, so I used to get much larger and more obvious cells than I did at this point.
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| window-filtered afternoon daylight |
Still, the pattern I got with this was plenty dramatic in bright light, and though the cells didn't cooperate ideally, the marbling effect overall was still plenty lovely. I probably could have skipped the copper holo and just stuck to more pink shimmer to keep amping the contrast, but I got plenty of compliments on this look, and I still think marble or fluid nail art is a huge win.
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| window-filtered afternoon daylight |
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars. This polish is utterly devastating, totally unique in my stash, had zero issues with application, and wore quite well. There is literally nothing but love here.
Where to buy: since this was an LE associated with a polish event, it won't be made again - check blog sales & destashes to score a bottle.
~Michelle
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