Pretty Serious Seasonal Sunset

Seasonal Sunset was released by indie polish maker Pretty Serious as part of its Christmas Without Snow collection in December 2012. Pretty Serious says, "Seasonal Sunset's rusty jelly base is packed to bursting with bright golden and copper microglitter particles and the result is simply breathtaking. It's a Christmas sunset on your nails!" It has a bold deep burnt orange base with coppery brown undertones swimming with tiny sparkling microglitters in gold and copper, including the smallest micro bar glitters I have ever seen. The glitters are perfectly suspended -- my bottle has been sitting a while and there was absolutely no settling. 

Application was great! This polish has a smooth fluid consistency with a little gel-like stickiness to it but is not a finicky polish. It lays down solidly and evenly in medium coats without any running or pooling. It's a very forgiving polish and doesn't pull patches if you tend to overstroke your application like I do. Pigmentation is excellent with a little sheerness on the first coat as you would expect from a polish with a jelly base, but full rich color and complete and even opacity after two. It self-levels beautifully -- what a relief not to have to worry about my ridges! Seasonal Sunset dries naturally in very good time to a smooth shiny finish.

Photos show two coats of Seasonal Sunset over treatment and basecoat with a somewhat bubbly topcoat of Seche Vite.

Pretty Serious Seasonal Sunset

Pretty Serious Seasonal Sunset

Pretty Serious Seasonal Sunset

Pretty Serious Seasonal Sunset

Pretty Serious Seasonal Sunset, with two bonus bubbles!

Pretty Serious Seasonal Sunset

Pretty Serious Seasonal Sunset

Pretty Serious Seasonal Sunset

Pretty Serious Seasonal Sunset

Pretty Serious Seasonal Sunset

Pretty Serious Seasonal Sunset

Pretty Serious Seasonal Sunset

It's no secret that I love orange polishes and this auburn sparkler is one for the books. The glitter to base ratio is just perfect, the glitter is responsible for most of the opacity with this polish and it disperses evenly across the nail like a carpet of scintillating padparadscha sapphires. In the sun, it explodes with flame colored sparks! So beautiful! I love it and will wear it all year round but it will be especially lovely in the fall. 

love,
Liz