China Glaze Fancy Pants
Fancy Pants was released by China Glaze as part of the Blooming Brights half of its twelve-polish Avant Garden collection for spring 2013. It's a medium-dark slightly muted indigo creme dusted with sparkly pink shimmers that are subtle but still quite apparent on the nail, especially in bright direct light, and which give Fancy Pants a pretty magenta glow, add dimensional interest to the color overall and set it apart from other indigo cremes.
Application was a snap. This polish has a fluid, creamy consistency that is easily manipulated over the nail with China Glaze's relatively long slender brush, and stays where you put it without running or pooling. It has excellent self-leveling properties and very good pigmentation with opacity easily achieved in two coats. Cleanup is straightforward and easy as this is a non-stainer, hooray! Fancy Pants dries naturally in very good time to a smooth shiny surface.
Photos show two coats of Fancy Pants over Seche Rebuild treatment and Butter London Nail Foundation basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite to pop the color, especially those pink shimmers, and hasten dry time.
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I like this polish a lot. In spite of it's slightly dusty look, it has a lucid aspect to it that has a lot of verve and energy. The subtle complexity and pretty glow (which I totally failed to capture in my photos) provided by the pink shimmer gives it a secret squirrel dash of femininity that I appreciate. It's more than a typical Crayola kind of color. Fancy Pants is a very gracefully composed polish that seems to me to be appropriate for any time of the year. Add to that its easy application and it's an all around win, especially if you like blues and purples.
love,
Liz
I love this polish! It's a gorgeous purple.
ReplyDeleteHi Melissa! Fancy Pants seems to be a favorite from that collection, the only other polish I have from Avant Garden is Budding Romance. There's a couple that I wish I had from the softer half, the Pastel Petals, though, like Tarty for the Party, Keep Calm Paint On and Fade Into Hue.
DeleteI've been wanting to use this polish forever!! I love the shimmer in this... heck, anything with contrasting shimmer makes me happy. Looks great on you!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Thithi! I hear you re contrasting shimmer, it's always a pick-me-up for me too. I'd love to see this one on you!
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