Saturday, August 26, 2017

Cupcake Polish Crazy Mod Love

Crazy Mod Love was released in July this year by Texas-based indie polish maker Cupcake Polish as part of the Mod About You collection, a series of six polishes inspired by the 60s. Described as a bright berry pink super linear holographic polish, the color is a rich, vibrant, medium-dark Barbie pink with aspects of red-violet and raspberry. Abundant finely-milled holographic pigment gives it an effervescent visual texture, a glowing violet heart and dimensionalizes the base with shades of French raspberry, crimson-rose and misty thulian pink in ambient light. In the sun, there's a brilliant linear holographic display predominated by twin arcs of azure and bright red edged by a shifting corona of prismatic sparkle.

Application was a messy affair, through no fault of the polish. Shaky hands and a sudden, unexplained fit of awkwardness wielding Cupcake's round brush are to blame for that. The consistency of Crazy Mod Love is fluid, dense and buttery smooth with a slightly thicker than medium viscosity and a lush, even, self-leveling glide over the nail. Pigmentation is excellent -- a one-coater for some. I used two. Cleanup is remarkably easy for such a well-pigmented shade, with a skosh of pigment travel but little to no trace staining, even where I flooded my sidewalls (told you it was messy). Crazy Mod Love dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish. Topcoat does not affect the holographic properties of the polish in any way that I could tell.

Photos show two coats of Crazy Mod Love over basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite. 

Cupcake Polish Crazy Mod Love

Cupcake Polish Crazy Mod Love

Cupcake Polish Crazy Mod Love

Cupcake Polish Crazy Mod Love

Cupcake Polish Crazy Mod Love

Cupcake Polish Crazy Mod Love

Cupcake Polish Crazy Mod Love

Cupcake Polish Crazy Mod Love

Cupcake Polish Crazy Mod Love

Cupcake Polish Crazy Mod Love

What an awesome deep pink holo! The color is gorgeous -- bold and clean and other than a holo's natural finely-grained visual texture and effervescence, absolutely no silvering from the holographic pigment. A powerfully feminine look -- I love it!

xo,
Liz

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