Aliquid Lacquer Yooper
Today I have a beautiful deep green shimmer to show you. It's called Yooper, and was released by indie polish maker Aliquid Lacquer as part of the recent Two Pleasant Peninsulas collection, a tribute to creator Alison's home state of Michigan. The inspiration for this particular polish was Michigan's Upper Peninsula, whose residents are colloquially referred to as "yoopers," thus accounting for the appellation.
Yooper has a dark slightly murky translucent foresty green jelly base that is just packed with a simply gorgeous combination of irregularly-shaped flecky shimmers in dark emerald, azure, gold and a lovely warm coppery brown, plus a twinkly mist of holographic particles. It comes together just perfectly, with the engrossing finely-grained, mini-mosaic dimensionality that I adore in a shimmer polish, a field of deep strong green sparkling with flashes of color from the shimmer flecks and holo particles. I adore this beautifully constructed polish, it's shot immediately to the top of my favorite dark greens.
Watching the shimmers go on was just blissful. Yooper's jelly base is consistent with its nature, gel-like and a little sticky. I added polish thinner to my bottle to get a more fluid, easier to apply consistency as my skills with thicker polishes are not so hot. Thinned out, the flow over the nail was smooth, even and self-leveling, very paintable. The first coat goes on a bit sheerly as you would expect, but this polish builds to opacity quite easily. Two coats would probably be enough for regular wear but for richest color and the photos I did three and I'm glad I did. Cleanup was a snap, with no trace of staining. Even the flecks of shimmer graciously allowed themselves to be swept away with the cleanup brush and did not cling to skin and cuticles as some shimmers are wont to do. Yooper dries naturally in good time to a silky smooth shiny finish. A layer of topcoat helps to pop the shimmer colors.
Photos show three coats of Yooper over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Glisten and Glow HK Girl.
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This is one of those polishes that intrigues from afar and then becomes more and more interesting the closer you get to it. Looking at it just makes my eyes so happy! And I love the intoxicating dark green that Alison has turned out here, it's blue enough to be immediately foresty and yellow enough to be totally organic. The shimmer colors are perfect in that green, they animate it in a way that is eminently true to Alison's inspiration. Really, could she have done her state more proud? I think not!
Wonderful polish!
love,
Liz
What a gorgeous shade of green! It's quite unique too, which I love. I haven't heard much about this brand but I just took a look at their site and they have some really pretty colors.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it just the perfect forest green, Melissa? It's a little brighter than hunter green, and not too dark either, which these deep greens sometimes seem to be. I am all over a couple other of Alison's flecky shimmers, they look so pretty and complex. Thanks for checking them out!
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