After
Greenglow was so lovely, I thought it was time to get to the other half of the Color 4 Nails exclusive duo, Mermaid Scales.
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
Mermaid Scales is a bright fuchsia to green multichrome with a scattered holo sparkle tossed in. The holo is very similar to what you'd get with a few coats of INM Northern Lights topcoat, a scattering of rainbow refractions that appear as a silver dust in low light, and not a holo flame.
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| holo sparkle in bright sunlight |
Straight-on and in most lighting, Mermaid Scales is a rich fuchsia-wine color, a little cooler or warmer on one edge. I've been wearing it as a pedi color, too, and there's much less shiftiness on my toes - what you see here is what I get.
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| window-filtered daylight |
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| outdoor, bright sunlight |
But with just a little tilt of the hands, and this shifts from berry to dusky pink to salmon to warm bronze.
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| direct late afternoon sunlight |
And on over to green, with this shift even more apparent in lower lighting.
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| window-filtered morning daylight |
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| window-filtered indirect light |
It's chrome-y in low light and sparkling in bright light, and was nicely opaque in 2 smooth coats. No problems at all with the formula, and it wore fairly amazingly, with only light edgewear after 4 days.
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| window-filtered indirect daylight |
To compliment all the colors in Mermaid Scales' spectrum, I stamped with MoYou London Frosted Lips (a silvery pink pretty ideal for this) and a swirling pattern reminiscent of roses from Creative Shop 17.
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| outdoor, bright afternoon sunlight |
Rating: a lovely 4 out of 5 stars for this shifty multichrome.
Where to buy: as with its sister Greenglow, this was a C4N LE, so
stalk the store for restocks or shop destashes.
~Michelle
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