Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii

Cast in Bronze was released by indie polish maker Hare Polish as part of its fabulous Finders Keepers collection for fall 2012. This is one of my most favorite collections by any polish maker ever, and includes such beauties as Amethystos, Golden Years, King of Carat Flowers, Oceans of Alloys (also here) and Reverie in Rubellite. I recently picked up Cast in Bronze from Hare's etsy shop and it is a worthy member of such a fantastic collection. I'm so grateful that Nikole continues to make her older polishes available for purchase!

Cast in Bronze is a medium muted orchid purple jelly glitter with beautifully contrasting abundant copper glitters in different sizes of hexes and squares,  shy fuchsia microglitters and delicate golden flecks. 

For this manicure I began with a single coat of Zoya Dannii, a medium orchid purple shimmer polish, as a base. I like to play it safe with glitter heavy jellies and use a base polish. This helps to ensure opacity and provides a track for the subsequent layers to follow, as I often have difficulty getting a good shape on my nails with these polishes. But I needn't have worried about opacity with Cast in Bronze as I found the base to be pigmented enough to be opaque on its own. How Nikole finds that happy balance of translucency to allow the components to be revealed within the layers of polish while simultaneously providing opaque coverage is a wonder in this world!

Cast in Bronze applied easily and well, with a substantial array of glitters delivered and dispersed by each brushful. I really enjoyed applying this polish, watching the copper glitters spread smoothly across and up each nail. It's one of those where you wish it DID need one more coat, just so you could have the pleasure of continuing to apply it. Cast in Bronze dries naturally in good time to a smooth shiny finish with only a skosh of detectable texture from the glitters. 

Photos show two coats of Cast in Bronze over one coat of Zoya Dannii over treatment and basecoat. I added a topcoat of Seche Vite for added shine, to ensure complete drying of all the layers and to ward against potential molestation by malevolent elements....

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii on the nail, Hare Polish Cast in Bronze in the bottle

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii on the nail, Hare Polish Cast in Bronze in the bottle

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze and Zoya Dannii, bottle shot

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii

Hare Polish Cast in Bronze over Zoya Dannii

I love how the copper glitters through the layers of orchid purple take on the appearance of a medley of sunset colors -- orange, pink, flame, rose, salmon!

The addition of topcoat really popped the colors in this lovely and charismatic polish, the orchid purple appeared more saturated and darker and the copper glitters took on an almost pink hue. While not the most complex mix of glitters found in the polishes of the Finders Keepers collection, the colors work together beautifully and smoothly and the various shapes of the coppery glitters provide visual interest that is compelling and wonderful to the eye. Like all of Nikole's polishes that I've tried, Cast in Bronze creates a collage of components that is unique to each nail while unified across the whole of the manicure. I love this aspect of her creations!

I also think Cast in Bronze is a nice fit with Pantone's color of the year, radiant orchid. Not that I aim to be particularly on trend at any point in my polish selections, but there's a certain amount of satisfaction to sporting a look that fits into a current color trend.

love,
Liz