Oh What Fun isn't a color I typically gravitate toward, it's a medium toned slightly muted and creamy barn red crelly polish with gold circle, square and hex glitters, white square and hex glitters and a generous infusion of golden shimmers. The red has a strong pink aspect to it that I chose to capitalize upon by layering Oh What Fun over Impala Marilyn, a deep vivid pink crelly one coater (you can see swatches of it on its own here and here). The combination of the two is a little darker and brighter than the bottle color of Oh What Fun, and it reminds me of rhubarb pie! Yum!
Application of Oh What Fun was great. The consistency was fluid and a bit sticky so I added a squirt of polish thinner and periodically tightened the cap and gave it a shake during application to refresh the fluidity and keep the brush from getting sticky. I got a full range of glitters with each brushful and they dispersed across the nail in that random but generally even way that Hare's glitters do. The dots are new to me, this is my first polish with circle glitter and I'm finding them quite fetching!
Pigmentation was also great. I really didn't need the Impala Marilyn underneath for opacity's sake because Oh What Fun provides sufficient coverage for opacity in two coats on its own. Oh What Fun dries naturally in very good time to a smooth shiny finish with slight detectable glitter texture.
Photos show two coats of Oh What Fun it is to Love over one coat of Impala Marilyn over treatment and basecoat with one coat of OPI RapiDry topcoat (trying it out because I had it on hand, nothing to write home about... it's very thin and reminds me of Orly's Sec 'n Dry) followed by a topcoat of Seche Vite.
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn on the nail, Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love in the bottle |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn on the nail, Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love in the bottle |
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| Impala Marilyn and Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love, bottle shot |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love, macro shot in the bottle |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn |
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| Hare Polish Oh What Fun it is to Love over Impala Marilyn |
I'm quite pleasantly surprised by Oh What Fun it is to Love! I really like the rhubarb/berry red color and the gentle collage of components on the nail. The gold glitters gleam through the layers of polish while the white glitters show as varying shades pink. Once again Nikole has achieved that perfect balance of translucence and opacity that makes this sort of polish so easy and fun to wear.
Although this is not a color I usually find myself drawn to, it's very flattering with my coloring. I own many red. red orange and orange polishes but Oh What Fun makes me aware that there's a noticeable dearth of this and other soft variations of pink in my collection. Hmm. Food for plotting!
love,
Liz
That's a beautiful polish with a lot of depth.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Cynthia! Glad you enjoyed it!
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