Officially described as "a juicy neon melon with purple shimmer," this color is hot! It's kind of like if you took a creamy, dense medium-light rosy pink like Baker-Miller pink, amped up the intensity bigly and gave it electric tea rose orange overtones. It's filled with tiny light purple microflake shimmers that create a radiant, cool, misty swath of hot pink along the axis of light, dimensionalizing the look and contrasting nicely with the searing orangey-pink tinge that resides around the edges of the nail.
Application was delicious. The consistency of Cruel Summer is fluid, light and smooth with a medium viscosity and a nearly effortless, creamy, self-leveling slip over the nail, a fantastic formula that goes right where you put it and stays there and is amenable to thin or thicker coats as preference dictates. Pigmentation is very good. A bit of sheerness with a dark streak or two on the first coat builds easily to evenly opaque coverage with the second, although I added a third coat, which it really didn't need. I could have sworn I saw smile lines, but when the effect persisted after the third coat I realized it was an illusion created by the intensity of the color. Now you know, it only needs two, no matter what your eyes tell you!
Cleanup is fairly straightforward -- the shimmers like to stick to the nail a little bit but they will come off with patience. Cruel Summer dries naturally in very good time to a silky smooth, semi-matte finish. Topcoat accentuates the presence and glow of the shimmers, which appears to diffuse the natural glossiness of the topcoat somewhat -- another visual effect in this polish's bag of tricks.
Photos show three coats of Cruel Summer over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.
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| Fair Maiden Polish Cruel Summer |
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| Fair Maiden Polish Cruel Summer |
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| Fair Maiden Polish Cruel Summer |
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| Fair Maiden Polish Cruel Summer |
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| Fair Maiden Polish Cruel Summer |
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| Fair Maiden Polish Cruel Summer |
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| Fair Maiden Polish Cruel Summer |
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| Fair Maiden Polish Cruel Summer |
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| Fair Maiden Polish Cruel Summer |
Fabulous! You gotta love it!
xo,
Liz
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