I'm on a HHC/PPU kick lately, apparently itchy to see how all these LE one-and-done polishes stack up in reality to the glory of their inspirations. This time, I actually did switch over to a neutral color...
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indoor, bright CF lighting |
Ethereal Lacquer seems to be making her brand name into her esthetic, releasing a slew of delicately ethereal sheer polishes glowing with fiery shimmer. In the bottle, Grímnismál from the January 2019 mythology-inspired PPU fits right in with these, full of color-shifting shimmer.
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outdoor, overcast daylight |
Assuming this one was super sheer, I started with one coat of Sephora OPI Frankly I Don't Give A-dam, which is nearly a one-coater itself (having thickened up slightly from when I got it new). It's a true mid-tone grey, leaning neither blue nor brownish, and to my eyes was 100% dead on for Grímnismál's base color as visible around the corners of the bottle.
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indoor, CF lighting |
The aurora shimmer leaps out of this one, easily visible as a red to gold to green sheen even in low lighting. I'm wearing 2 coats of Grímnismál over A-dam.
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outdoor, direct sunlight |
As with Ethereal's The Dark Mark, this is absolutely the type of aurora pigment that comes close to the same shift range as Clarins 230-type shimmers. It's a vibrant ruby red in direct, bright lighting, that then shifts to bronzed gold and on over to peridot and emerald greens.
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outdoor, cloudy daylight |
Turns out Grímnismál really isn't that sheer at all, and my initial plan was to use it as a stamping polish, since the shimmer is definitely dense enough to do so... but I picked my base color too well, and the contrast was only visible in very specific lighting. Oh well, it's lovely as is, so I'll try again at some point with a more contrasting base color.
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outdoor, bright sunlight |
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indoor, bright CF lighting |
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars for this fantastic modern neutral. The concrete grey is edgy in a 90s sort of way that gets a big thumbs up from me, and I think we all know how I love shifting shimmers.
Where to buy: though I'm sounding like a broken record lately, PPU and HHC are sales with a single, fixed pre-order, but both do have a brisk after-market reshuffling, so keep your eyes out for destashes letting this one go.
~Michelle
Lovely shimmer :-D
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