It's been plenty frosty for a good month now, and my nails are just a scoch longer than usual, so it's thermal weather!
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
Emily de Molly has made a handful of really pretty tonal thermals lately (I've debated quite a bit over which of the berry to purple ones I most need), including More or Less. This one is a deep forest green when cold:
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| window-filtered daylight |
That shifts over to a soft cadet blue when warm:
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| window-filtered daylight |
In addition to a scattering of ultra teeny holo glitters, there's a very fine golden shimmer running throughout that I think helps visually blend out the transition between the states.
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| outdoor, bright afternoon daylight |
The result is a smooth, subtle transition from blue to green, more a gradient look rather than a starkly demarcated "funky french tip" effect.
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| window-filtered bright afternoon daylight |
I'm wearing 2 smooth coats here for total opacity. The formula was very much like a "regular" polish, whereas some thermals can be as finicky as mattes in application.
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| outdoor, bright afternoon daylight |
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. I have a real preference for these interesting tonal thermals, rather than ones where the cold and warm states are so different that the in-between colors get muddy/ugly. This is pretty at all parts of the transition, so when it inevitably dies somewhere in between, it's not going to end up somewhere weird. This got chippy on a couple of fingers after a couple of days, and showed obvious edgewear quicker than average, but was easy to touch up on the fingers that needed it.
Where to buy:
direct from Emily de Molly, or
one of her stockists.
~Michelle
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