Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

Fiery the Angels Fell was released by indie polish maker Indigo Bananas as part of the eponymous Blade Runner-inspired Fiery the Angel Fell collection in August 2013. This polish has a translucent red-orange base that is jam packed with duochromatic glass flecks with a pink to gold shift. It has the capacity to read as almost any flame color you can think of, from pinkish red to salmon to blood orange to golden orange and everything in between. Unfortunately today is very overcast and most of my photos read as pinkish red or blood orange, but the clouds thinned just enough at one point so that I could catch some of the shift for you.

Application was great. Like the other polishes from Indigo Bananas that I've tried, this one has an eminently paintable consistency: fluid and smooth with an even, self-leveling flow over the nail. It's a very user-friendly polish and allows touch ups and patches that melt into the base without ghosting or leaving any trace behind. Pigmentation is buildable. One coat is evenly sheer, two are wearably opaque, and three deliver full rich bottle color. I used three for this manicure as I has some fix-ups to do after the second coat, but I'm glad I did because the color became more intense. Cleanup was mostly a matter of chasing down runaway glass flecks, but they were easy to remove. Fiery the Angels Fell dries naturally in good time to a smooth shiny finish.

Photos show three coats of Fiery the Angels Fell over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

Indigo Bananas Fiery the Angels Fell

I think this polish may have a touch of holographic pigment in it also because it's really sparkly in direct light and I kept thinking I was seeing sparks of other colors in there. I love analogous (colors that are next to each other on the color wheel) color mixes and this polish has all of the fiery hues in its repertoire. In person the finish has more of a foily, reflective look than my photos show, and the color likes to hover at blood orange with pinkish blushes of red and occasional flashes of brighter orange. It really couldn't have a better name, taken from a line in Blade Runner delivered by the replicant Roy Batty: "Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder around their shores; burning with the fires of Orc."

I've often watched sunsets where right before the colors disappear there's a glowing salmon color at the horizon, sandwiched in between crimson and the ethereal turquoise that fades to deep midnight blue, and I've craved a less transient version of that salmon. Well this polish has granted my wish. At certain angles in certain lights, it's very much a brilliant salmon like you see in a sunset. That's my favorite of its many faces. 

love,
Liz