Grace-full Nail Polish Cherry Best Friends

Cherry Best Friends was released earlier this month by Australian indie polish maker Grace-full Nail Polish as part of the Christmas Memories collection. It has a medium-toned cerise-leaning crimson base bearing superabundant fine gold shimmers, which transform the color to a beautiful bold pigment red and give it an exceptionally luminous, gleaming semi-metallic appearance with a fiery flash. Finely-milled holographic pigment adds to the luminous quality and dimensionalizes the look with a subtle violet arc in direct light.

Application was fantastic. The consistency of Cherry Best Friends is fluid, light and very smooth with a thin-to-medium viscosity and a silky, self-leveling slip over the nail. It's one of those polishes that goes on so effortlessly that you feel like you can almost "think" it on, you know what I mean? Excellent pigmentation contributes to that effect -- it is completely and evenly opaque in just one coat! I used two for this manicure, but beyond adding a slightly greater sense of density to the color (which may well have been all in my mind), it made no difference to the look of the polish. Cleanup is tetchy, there's some pigment travel as you might expect from a lacquer so profoundly pigmented and a bit of trace staining as well. But given how beautifully it applies, a clean manicure is absolutely within the realm of possibility. Cherry Best Friends dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish. 

Photos show two coats of Cherry Best Friends over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Grace-full Nail Polish Cherry Best Friends

Grace-full Nail Polish Cherry Best Friends

Grace-full Nail Polish Cherry Best Friends

Grace-full Nail Polish Cherry Best Friends

Grace-full Nail Polish Cherry Best Friends

Grace-full Nail Polish Cherry Best Friends

Grace-full Nail Polish Cherry Best Friends

Grace-full Nail Polish Cherry Best Friends

Grace-full Nail Polish Cherry Best Friends

Grace-full Nail Polish Cherry Best Friends

Grace-full Nail Polish Cherry Best Friends

Cherry Best Friends is actually even warmer and brighter in person. This baby just glows! It reminds me of bright red gift wrap ribbon -- you really couldn't ask for a more vivid, radiant look for a Christmas red!

All of the polishes that I purchased from the Christmas Memories collection have been wonderful, I've enjoyed each and every one. My favorite is Pavlova Roll for it's traveling embery glow and deep gorgeous red-violet color, but they are all great and perfectly formulated too. I love the thin-to-medium viscosity of Theresa's formulas, so eminently paintable, and Grace-full's sleek, compact, flattened-style brush is among my absolute favorites for its precision application. 

love,
Liz