Great Lakes Lacquer Creatures of Night Brought to Light!

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I keep finding nail inspiration in lots of unusual places lately.  My super weird work schedule means that I'm in quasi-isolation most of the time, just like everyone else, so I welcome all the help from non-standard sources!  I was recently perusing another blogger's destash and found this beauty, and finally remembered oh wait, I already have that!!
Great Lakes Lacquer Creatures of Night Brought to Light!
indoor, CF lighting
Great Lakes Lacquer released Creatures of Night Brought to Light! with last year's August PPU, and it's themed around one of my all-time fave movies, The Last Unicorn.

Great Lakes Lacquer Creatures of Night Brought to Light!
outdoor, bright sunlight
This polish is a real chameleon.  The base is an inky dark cool-toned violet, but the duochromatic shimmer is a warm plum wine.  Indoors, most of the time it looked like a smoky amethyst with a brighter central flash.

Great Lakes Lacquer Creatures of Night Brought to Light!
indoor, bright CF lighting
With brighter light and any angles, though, the shimmer blazes into metallic copper, and then almost to green. 

Great Lakes Lacquer Creatures of Night Brought to Light!
outdoor, bright sunlight
I'm wearing 2 coats here, and the formula was smooth and easy to work with.  I don't have many Great Lakes polishes, but the ones I do are all wonderful. 

Great Lakes Lacquer Creatures of Night Brought to Light!
outdoor, bright sunlight
I think the warm shimmer in the cool base means this is really versatile in which skin tones can wear it, and it genuinely should look good on most everyone. 

Great Lakes Lacquer Creatures of Night Brought to Light!
indoor, CF lighting
Rating:  4 out of 5 stars.  This beautiful color had a great formula and is pretty perfect for the midnight carnival inspiration.  It wore just a little faster than ideal, but then again all dark colors show edgewear fastest and I'm only changing my polish about once per week, so that's mostly on me.  

Where to buy:  good luck finding a bottle in a destash or blog sale, it's worth tracking one down!

~Michelle

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