Mystery polishes aren't so much my jam - I have a bajillion untrieds to get through, and when your collection gets to a certain size, you really give everything a critical eye as to whether you already have something similar. When Tonic announced earlier this year that she was cleaning out the closet of a bunch of prototypes, though, I bought everything I could.
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| indoor, CF lighting |
This is an easy fave of the prototypes I received - a deep charcoal grey based linear holo with a gorgeous red to bronze to green metallic multichrome.
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| outdoor, indirect daylight |
Unlike a few others I recieved, this prototype has no number or other marking. I'm not completely sure what final polish it was an in-process study for - it's not quite Witchy Woman or Ninja Pumpkin, and I'm well aware those two aren't anything alike, but I think this is somewhere in between.
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| outdoor, indirect/overcast daylight |
This polish is shifty as all get-out, going from a deep scarlet in bright, direct light:
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| outdoor, bright sunlight |
To warm, blackened bronze at angles:
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| outdoor, bright sunlight |
And right on over to a green flash past that:
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| outdoor, afternoon sunlight |
While red to green typically means aurora shimmer, nope, this is absolutely a metallic chrome type multichrome. I have nothing exactly like it - Llarowe's Red Light Yellow Light Green Light Go seems to be a sorta vague cousin - and I can't figure out the "mother" multichrome, like an Ozotic or ILNP in a plain/sheer grey base.
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| outdoor, shady daylight |
I'm wearing 2 coats + topcoat here, with the polish having the somewhat thick formula that was very typical of earlier Tonics, and mostly opaque at the first layer. I wore this for days, and while it rather quickly showed some edgewear (likely related to that thickness), the swoon worthy color had me fixing it up to keep wearing it.
Rating: I'm choosing to not rate this, since these protos were sold as-is, with no guarantees as to formula or whether the bottles were completely full or whether they even had mixing balls in there. I think I hit the jackpot with this one, though.
Where to buy: All of these were theoretical one-offs, so to the best of my knowledge this is a one of a kind polish. I've seen plenty of people sending protos out elsewhere into the world in destashes (I myself offloaded a couple protos that weren't my cuppa, the eternal dice roll of mystery polishes), so keep a lookout if you missed the sale.
~Michelle
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