Hare Polish Test Your Love

Test Your Love was released by indie polish maker Hare Polish as part of Nikole's The Coin Operation collection for fall 2013. It's a sweet medium rosy raspberry pink jelly filled with pale golden and silvery white flake glitters. The flakies have a shimmering effect from within the layers of translucent pink like clouds reflected in water, and the colors alter in accordance with their depth. Pale gold becomes sherbet or blood orange depending on how deeply buried the flakes are and silver turns into a whole range of pinks. They produce a lovely, soft mottled effect in the polish and add a gleaming pale golden/silvery sheen to the finish.

Application was very nice. The consistency of Test (I almost typed "Text," wth?) Your Love is light and somewhat gel-like but not sticky and still fluid enough for easy manipulation over the nail. Flakie payoff is excellent with plenty of shimmering flakes in each brushful that disperse easily without stacking or any undue tumbling or dragging. I did have a few shardy pieces protruding over my free edge but they were easy to guide back onto the nail while the polish was still wet. Pigmentation is not a strong point of this polish; it's translucent and meant to be that way. I was perfectly happy with the coverage afforded by three medium coats -- the very slight presence of visible nail line only in certain lights didn't detract from the overall look at all, in my opinion. Cleanup was a matter of chasing down rogue flakies with varying degrees of success. Between plying my cleanup brush and a good handwashing after, I think I got all but the most recalcitrant. Test Your Love dries naturally in very good time to a smooth kind of rubbery satin finish that wants a good topcoat to bring the whole shebang clearly into view.

Photos show three coats of Test Your Love over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of HK Girl.

Hare Polish Test Your Love

Hare Polish Test Your Love

Hare Polish Test Your Love

Hare Polish Test Your Love

Hare Polish Test Your Love

Hare Polish Test Your Love

Hare Polish Test Your Love

Hare Polish Test Your Love

Hare Polish Test Your Love

Test Your Love possesses a lot of the juicy squishiness that makes a jelly finish so beloved by polish enthusiasts. With the shimmering show-through flakies, the effect is almost magical. There's a bit of now-you-see-it-now-you-don't and what-is-that-anyway to this polish that is quite fetching. And it's such a pretty, sweet, girly color! 

In case you're wondering, as I did, about how Test Your Love compares to Loaded Lacquer's Tropical Moment, though both are basically pink and have flakies otherwise they are quite different. Tropical Moment has a clear suspension base where Test Your Love has a translucent jelly base. Tropical Moment's pink appearance is without the touch of purple that gives Test Your Love it's berry-like quality. It's also got a much more overt, iridescent and sparkling range of components with bright yellow gold flakes as compared to the ethereal shimmering quality and pale gold and silvery white flakes of Test Your Love. 

love,
Liz