Pahlish has been releasing a handful of gorgeous muted colors with crushed gold flake lately, and I jumped right into her most recent restock a couple of weeks ago to grab some must-haves.
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
Fiji is a lovely aqua crelly filled with plenty of the aforementioned crushed gold flake. I think it leans ever so slightly more blue than green, but definitely look at bunches of swatch photos if you like aquas that are more one than the other - this does appear different based lighting conditions, and I'm very sure skin tone will play into how this looks on you a whole lot.
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
I had smooth, even coverage at 2 coats, and it would have been fine to stop there. The color appeared very slightly more muted and greyed at 2 coats, likely due to the not 100% opaque crelly formula letting my nail bed show through just a touch. Since the sun came back out the day I painted, I went for a 3rd coat, which brightened and saturated the color but didn't change the appearance of the crushed gold flakes.
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| window-filtered overcast daylight |
I bought this polish knowing I was going to create turquoise stone nails with it - the gold flakes in the soft not-quite-greyed aqua is just begging for the stone treatment, and I love how it turned out.
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| outdoor, bright sunlight |
I've created similar looks before and didn't want to repeat myself with stark black or gold for the stone veins. Instead, I'm using Model's Own Mushroom, a warm taupe-grey crème, and the not fully opaque appearance and softer color of these cracks are exactly what I was going for.
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| outdoor, bright sunlight |
This is 3 different organic/irregular patterns from KADS MIN 026, changing the stamper orientation and which part of the image I've used, so that the patterning looks as free-form and non-repetitive as possible. I topped using a cheapo matte topcoat from 6 below, which was burnished half off to an interesting waxy half-shine by 24h later that looked just like polished stone to my eye.
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| window-filtered daylight |
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars. This polish was great to work with, and I think far more visually interesting than a gold flake topcoat would be over a similar crème color. Flakie distribution was perfectly even without dragging or clumping on each and every coat. The brush was utter perfection, and I needed almost no cleanup even with 3 layers of polish. I loved this enough that I'm seriously debating picking up even more of these gold flaked Pahlishes!
Where to buy:
direct from the Pahlish web store.
~Michelle
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