Baroness X Portal Gun

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With some cool snaps lately,and my nails being just the right length, it's definitely thermal weather.

Baroness X Portal Gun
indoor, bright CF lighting
Baroness X has really been knocking this year's mystery series out of the park, with each box having one Clarins 230 shimmer polish and one "sister UP" polish, plus a little treat or two.  The August box, Rick & Morty themed, might be my fave so far. 

Baroness X Portal Gun
window-filtered daylight
Portal Gun starts with a black-to-colorless thermal base that builds in 3 coats to a milky, slightly smoky translucency rather than being clear.  Baroness X has played with different ingredients in these black-to-clear thermals, and this one is a clear winner for me (a stunner compared to the somewhat similar Ghastly). 

Baroness X Portal Gun
outdoor, overcast daylight
The black base of the cold state makes the flakies and sister UP shimmer into a vampy teal-green shifting blue to purple around the edges.

Baroness X Portal Gun
indoor, CF lighting
As the base warms up and becomes nearly clear, the flakies of course pop up center stage as bright multichromatic flecks of color, but the sparkly shimmer isn't anywhere near invisible without the black to back it.

Baroness X Portal Gun
window-filtered daylight
Baroness X Portal Gun
outdoor, direct bright sunlight
The flakies always appeared as a mix of blue, dark teal, and purple, along with occasional sparks of magenta, depending on where along the curve of the nail they laid.  Conversely, the shimmer tended to shift more uniformly across the nail (below), more like a traditional multichromatic pigment.

Baroness X Portal Gun
window-filtered bright daylight
I think Portal Gun absolutely nails the inspo - the color palette is dead on to the whole intro sequence of the show, and both the fractured flakie fragments and the shifty shimmers are thematically perfect.

Baroness X Portal Gun
indoor, bright CF lighting
Rating 4 out of 5 stars.  The colors in his polish and the theme of the box are right up my alley.  Portal Gun wore great for 4 or 5 days, with only smooth, even edgewear typical for most polishes.

Where to buy:  this was an exclusive for this past August's monthly series, but Baroness X does put occasional overpours up on her store site.

~Michelle

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