Tonic Polish Huckleberry Sparkle

Huckleberry Sparkle was released in June 2016 by Iowa-based indie polish maker Tonic Polish as part of the Debut collection. The base color is a dark, translucent variation of color wheel violet, a clean, lush blue-leaning shade with aspects of Majorelle blue. Abundant fine red shimmers reflect light through the base and give the polish a luminous, dimensional Mardi Gras purple look on the nail, with a warm glow at the center that cools to near indigo at the sidewalls. Scattered holographic microglitters create a starry prismatic twinkle in ambient light and a bright net of rainbow sparks in the sun, where the shimmers are visible as a swath of glistening semi-metallic red-violet particles along the axis of light. 

Application was great! The consistency of Huckleberry Sparkle is fluid, dense and a tiny bit sticky with a medium-to-thicker viscosity to which I added polish thinner to create a fluency more commensurate with my skills. Thinned, it had a velvety-smooth, self-leveling glide over the nail that went on best for me in medium coats from a moderately-loaded brush. Pigmentation is excellent for a jelly-based polish, producing evenly opaque coverage in two medium coats. Cleanup is easy. Huckleberry Sparkle dries naturally in good time to a smooth, shiny finish. Topcoat accentuates the presence and effects of the shimmers and microglitters.

Photos show two coats of Huckleberry Sparkle over KBShimmer Love You Strong Time treatment and KBShimmer Fillin' Groovy basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Tonic Polish Huckleberry Sparkle

Tonic Polish Huckleberry Sparkle

Tonic Polish Huckleberry Sparkle

Tonic Polish Huckleberry Sparkle

Tonic Polish Huckleberry Sparkle

Tonic Polish Huckleberry Sparkle

Tonic Polish Huckleberry Sparkle

Tonic Polish Huckleberry Sparkle

Tonic Polish Huckleberry Sparkle

Tonic Polish Huckleberry Sparkle

Tonic Polish Huckleberry Sparkle

Lindsey creates some of the most soulful shimmer polishes you can find on the indie market right now, I think. Although her multichromes seem to be most popular, I love her skillful use of non-multichromatic shimmers within translucent base colors to create new, complex hues -- polishes that are full of drama and ambiance but are also eminently wearable. Huckleberry Sparkle has an eye-catching luminosity for a dark color, more so than my photos show, and displays a dreamy red-violet-to-purple-to-violet spectrum on the nail, exquisitely accented by the scattered twinkle of the holographic microglitters.

You can find Tonic Polish at Girly Bits and Color4Nails and as well as on the brand's website and in its etsy shop.

love,
Liz