Cirque Lichen
Lichen is part of Cirque's recently released Alchemy collection. This is a sophisticated charcoaled olive green shimmer polish with duochrome pigmentation that has an olive to blue green shift, giving the polish a grassy or forest green look in certain light. The shimmers are golden and very lively and overt, and provide Lichen with eye-catching sparkle in direct sunlight. In shade and indirect light, the edges deepen in color with the glowing center giving this polish a lit from within look.
Once again, application was great. Lichen has a creamy liquid texture to it that flows beautifully over the nail. Pigmentation was great as well, with significant opacity in one coat and complete opacity in two. Clean up was easy except that I managed to miss a tiny but significant cuticle swipe on my left ring finger. I hate it when that happens! Lichen dries in very good time to a smooth glowing satin finish with an almost burnished sheen to it. I chose to apply topcoat over this polish, but it is equally lovely without the extra gloss.
Photos show two coats of Lichen over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Poshe.
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I love this kind of large-particled shimmer, the way it refracts through the green reminds me of the wavy antique/vintage glass panes we have in most of the windows here at Grass Island. Lichen is a rather solemn, serious polish... "somber," is what Fuzzy said but it isn't dour in the least. The duochrome shift is like a shy smile.
What do you say to this green beauty, Eleanor? I know you love greens as much as I do!
love,
Aunt Liz
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