Lacquer Slacker Liz: Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show

Friday, February 10, 2017

Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show

I Want My Scars to Show was released in October 2016 by Ohio-based indie polish maker Lollipop Posse Lacquer as part of the Things That Can Never Be Unleashed collection. Officially described as a cherry red linear holo, the color is a brilliant pink-toned crimson that's very like Crayola's razzmatazz with a slightly redder undertone and aspects of cerise and raspberry. Abundant finely-milled holographic pigment creates nuanced shades of violet, red-violet and bright primary red within the base in ambient light, and in the sun there's a dazzling linear prismatic display with sparkling arcs of violet and bright red framing a lick of semi-metallic raspberry and shading to carmine at the sidewalls of the nail.

Application was a pleasure. The consistency of I Want My Scars to Show is fluid, smooth and dense with a medium viscosity and a lush, velvety, self-leveling glide over the nail that has a tiny bit of pull to it, very easy to control with LPL's flattened flexible brush. Pigmentation is excellent, with wearably opaque coverage in one medium coat, although I think the color is denser and more intense after a second. Cleanup is straightforward, with some pigment travel as you might expect and a tiny bit of residual staining to especially dry areas. I Want My Scars to Show dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish. Topcoat does not inhibit the holographic properties in any way.

Photos show two coats of I Want My Scars to Show over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show

I will never tire of red holos like this. Every year around Christmas, when there's a general proliferation of these polishes, my purchasing of them kicks into overdrive and by the time February and Valentine's Day get here I find myself shepherding a slew of red holos through my swatching chute. I've been trying to kind of space them out this year and you'd think I'd reach a saturation point somewhere along the line, but every time I try a new one I get that particularly ecstatic little zing of transcendence that always seems to accompany the brilliance, energy, drama and pure visual splendor of a red holographic polish.

And so it is with I Want My Scars to Show, an utterly stunning red holo that unfortunately is no longer listed in Karen's shop. I don't know whether she'll be restocking it, but if she does, grab it! You can never have too many transcendent moments in this life.

love,
Liz

Lacquer Slacker Liz

Friday, February 10, 2017

Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show

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