Rescue Beauty Lounge Coral

Like Stormy, Coral has been part of the core line of indie polish maker Rescue Beauty Lounge since 2008. It was sold out for a long, long time and then returned in 2012 to the joy of many polish enthusiasts. It's a medium vibrant creamy shade of coral pink with undercurrents of tangerine and melon and a lightly translucent formula that give it the ability to encompass all kinds of pink and orange shades depending on the circumstances and complexion of the wearer. In bright direct light it has a guava-esque quality, in shade and dim light, a red-orange hue comes forward. At still other times, it has the appearance of a punchy pink grapefruit. Its brilliant euphoric nature, versatility and excellent formula have made it a darling of coral enthusiasts everywhere and a favorite for summer pedicures.

Application was fabulous. The consistency of Coral is fluid, creamy and light with that ineffable but profound paintability possessed by the other RBL cremes that I've experienced -- thinner than cremes from other brands, but never runny and always well-behaved, with a silky, self-leveling glide over the nail. Pigmentation is very good, with completely even opaque coverage achieved in two coats. I added a third to ensure that my prodigious nail ridges would be entirely camouflaged, but in retrospect it really wasn't necessary. Cleanup was easy and straightforward with no traveling pigment and no trace of staining. Coral dries naturally in good time to an impeccably glossy finish. 

Photos show three coats of Coral over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite. My pinky hangnail is on the mend and less purulent-looking than yesterday but still a bit grotesque for macro photography, please forgive! 

Rescue Beauty Lounge Coral

Rescue Beauty Lounge Coral

Rescue Beauty Lounge Coral

Rescue Beauty Lounge Coral

Rescue Beauty Lounge Coral

Rescue Beauty Lounge Coral

Rescue Beauty Lounge Coral

Rescue Beauty Lounge Coral

Rescue Beauty Lounge Coral

Rescue Beauty Lounge Coral

Rescue Beauty Lounge Coral

Rescue Beauty Lounge Coral

I'm inclined to say that this polish seems to pull a wee bit red in my photos, and that may be due to my camera's interpretation of the intensely saturated hue. For some other, perhaps more accurate photos of this polish as it is in person, I'll point you toward posts by two other bloggers featuring this color: Mary's Body and Soul post, here, and Sam's Fashion Polish post, here.

How does Coral compare to other vivid pink coral polishes that I love? Two of my very favorite pink corals are Butter London's Cakehole and Deborah Lippmann's Daytripper, and RBL Coral is more saturated than either of them, with deeper, more orangey undertones, a cleaner look and the best formula of the three. With less white in it, it's also less suggestive of a neon, which I find interesting. They're certainly different enough from each other to justify owning all three. That is, if you need that kind of justification....

wink,
Liz