Crows Toes One Trick Pony

I have another wonderful polish from indie polish maker CrowsToes for you today! And just as exciting (for me anyway), I just discovered that Lauri, the owner, creative force and crow behind the toes, is located in North Carolina! Rock on, fellow tarheel!

I've been trying to accommodate my problem overwhelming desire for new polishes by allowing myself one dedicated, non-ebay polish buy a month. Last month I made a sweet purchase from Llarowe with the help of some seriously stocked up customer rewards points for four CrowsToes polishes. Awesome. You saw Hellhound yesterday. Today's CrowsToes is One Trick Pony.

One Trick Pony was released as part of CrowsToes' One Mad Crazy Summer collection for summer 2013. It is a purple/green duochrome holographic polish. It has a deep aubergine purple base that shows a subtle color shift to green in certain lights and is full of fine holographic pigments that, given the slightest provocation, produce a beautiful dark linear prismatic display. The effect when not in direct or bright diffuse light is of a rich gleaming dark violet purple with complex multicolored speckles of pigment clearly visible.

The formula was excellent, liquid but dense with the slight jelly-like stickiness I've now come to expect from CrowsToes. Once again I was kind of heavy handed with the polish load on the brush but One Trick Pony, being user friendly as it is, kept me from getting into too much trouble. Pigmentation is also excellent with complete coverage and great opacity in two coats. One Trick Pony dries naturally in good time to a smooth shiny finish.

Photos show two coat of One Trick Pony over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite. I detected no alteration of the holographic flair either in strength or intensity with the addtion of topcoat.

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony, showing a little bit of that shy duochrome purple to green shift

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

CrowsToes One Trick Pony

One Trick Pony could stand on its holographic merits alone but the color shifting duochromatic base adds a certain influence to its composition that is lavish, moody and seductive. Thought subtle, you catch the shift in gradual doses, glowing over the purple like an inverted misty green shadow. This is the kind of finesse that produces those involuntary sighs of surprise and delight. I am full of admiration for Lauri's formulary skills, she seems to be able to create polishes that couple strength and delicacy at once. It's an ability that has won her many fans.

Count me in!

love,
Aunt Liz