I've had Rainstorm for a while now, got it on ebay. Actually, I'd won a couple of auctions from this person and Rainstorm came instead of one the polishes that I'd won. I was like, whoa I love this color! I sent her a message right away telling her that I'd got the wrong polish but would be MORE than happy to keep it. She messaged me back saying, dang I wanted to keep that one for myself. We ended up leaving things as they were so I got to keep Rainstorm.
Rainstorm is a medium dark murky cornflower blue. Or, more simply, denim. This sort of blue always provokes my covet response, complete with salivary action. BUY ALL THE BLUE POLISHES! I swatched it once before but made a big mistake. I absentmindedly applied Seche Vite as my basecoat. D'oh! I was like, oh I wondered why that basecoat dried so fast... oh well I'll just put this other polish on anyway and see what happens. Don't ever do this. I mean, even the Seche folks tell you not to do this, and now I know why. I washed maybe three dishes and got chips on three fingernails.
So I've been waiting to swatch it again and that time is now.
Applying this polish was a pleasure even though my hands were particularly shaky today for some reason (caffeine intake in high gear). Rainstorm just flows beautifully onto the nail, the consistency was liquid without being runny. If I was going to wear it by itself I would have applied two coats but I was going to layer over it so I used just one. And really, that's all you need for opacity. Gotta love a one coater. Especially when it's blue! *wink*
This is one coat of Rainstorm over basecoat plus one coat of Sec 'n Dry on top (had to protect that one coat from evil smudges) in the photos.
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| what I used: Seche Rebuild treatment basecoat, Sinful Colors Rainstorm, Orly Sec 'n Dry quick deep dry topcoat |
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| Sinful Colors Rainstorm -- gorgeous, no? |
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| Sinful Colors Rainstorm |
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| Sinful Colors Rainstorm, lookin' glossy! |
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| Sinful Colors Rainstorm -- on the nail perhaps a wee tiny tad darker than bottle color |
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| Sinful Colors Rainstorm |
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| at the window... |
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| the claw, modified |
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| Sinful Colors Rainstorm |
You may remember that Hare Afterglow was one of the polishes in my recent no-buy-breaking Llarowe haul from the Nail Mail post of the other day. Afterglow has a medium-dark denim blue crelly type base that is slightly darker and slightly brighter than Rainstorm. Like a darker royal blue. It contains a fantastic make your eyes happy combination of glitters: small-medium purple hexes, small orange hexes and purple microglitter.
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| Hare Afterglow and Sinful Colors Rainstorm |
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| Hare Afterglow, macro shot in the bottle |
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| Sinful Colors Rainstorm on my thumb, Hare Polish Afterglow in the bottle |
I got distracted enough looking at the glitters while applying the polish that I didn't do the best job applying this one and overworked it on the nail. But it was cool enough not to be put off by my inexpert handling with only a few glitters here and there poking out at edges and nail tips.
This is two coats of Afterglow and a coat of Seche Vite on top of the Rainstorm manicure...
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| Hare Polish Afterglow over Sinful Colors Rainstorm |
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| Hare Polish Afterglow over Sinful Colors Rainstorm |
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| Hare Polish Afterglow over Sinful Colors Rainstorm |
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| Hare Polish Afterglow over Sinful Colors Rainstorm |
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| Hare Polish Afterglow over Sinful Colors Rainstorm |
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| at the window... |
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| Hare Polish Afterglow over Sinful Colors Rainstorm |
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| Hare Polish Afterglow over Sinful Colors Rainstorm |
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| Hare Polish Afterglow over Sinful Colors Rainstorm |
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| Hare Polish Afterglow over Sinful Colors Rainstorm |
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| EXTREME CLOSE UP WHOA |
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| Hare Polish Afterglow over Sinful Colors Rainstorm |
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| Hare Polish Afterglow over Sinful Colors Rainstorm |
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| the claw, modified |
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| Hare Polish Afterglow over Sinful Colors Rainstorm |
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| Hare Polish Afterglow, looking a bit deeper and more purpley on the nail than in the bottle |
I like this very much. The unsubtle glitter colors become subtle and organic in the deepness of the blue, and the purple microglitter really adds some purpley body to the whole. It reminds me exactly of the colors you can see at the very edge of the horizon after sunset in a clear cloudless evening sky, the last little bit of color before nightfall. Perfect and coherent!
It's a grey sky day here today. I can't wait to see this in sunlight!
love,
Aunt Liz
ps. Adding my late night observations of this polish to say that the glitters in Afterglow that I called "purple" are actually much more of a magenta. You can really see this in low light and the effect is fabulous. In low light Afterglow looks more like the last photo above than it does in the other photos. The MAGENTA microglitter, especially, has a huge impact on how the polish looks. It transforms that blue into a dark dusky violet. How cool!
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