ILNP Neon Rosebud

Today's polish is one of the brand spanking new Ultra Chrome Flakies just released by indie polish maker I Love Nail Polish (ILNP). Fresh from the mailbox, it's Neon Rosebud, one of four of these hot new offerings that I pre-ordered from ILNP, a brand that arguably made its bones with multichromatic polishes. All of the Ultra Chromes Flakies feature variably-shaped metallic multichromatic flakes in a transparent suspension base, each one having its own unique color-shifting effect. Neon Rosebud has a purple/fuchsia/gold/green shift with bits of electric blue and orange showing up at times as well. The colors are intense and the shifts are athletic, with a highly reflective pebbled look to the finish that produces a scintillating sparkle in direct light, where the predominant color is fuchsia with green and gold creeping in at oblique angles. In indirect light and shade, especially, the fuchsia to green color shift is out of this world!

Application was great. The consistency of the suspension base is fluid, smooth and dense with flakies, which present no application problems at all and lay down smoothly against the nail. This polish has an even, self-leveling flow over the nail and is fairly easy to control with ILNP's flattened flexible brush. This is a polish that can either be layered over a base or built to opacity on its own. I chose to try it out solo. Coverage is provided only by the flakes, so it requires multiple coats for opacity. I used four for this manicure but the difference between three and four wasn't so substantial that everyone will need four coats. Some will be perfectly happy with three. Flakies don't make for good tip wrapping, so expect some sheerness there and at the edges of the polish. Really, the colors in the polish are so lively and vibrant that you hardly notice any sheerness to the coverage. Cleanup wasn't too difficult and is best done as you go along while the polish is still wet as once those flakies dry on cuticles and skin they are a bear to remove. Neon Rosebud dries naturally in very good time to a silky smooth, shiny finish.

Photos show four coats of Neon Rosebud over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite. I took a lot of pictures of this polish both in indirect light and shade so you could see the different effects produced.

ILNP Neon Rosebud

ILNP Neon Rosebud

ILNP Neon Rosebud

ILNP Neon Rosebud

ILNP Neon Rosebud

ILNP Neon Rosebud

ILNP Neon Rosebud

ILNP Neon Rosebud

ILNP Neon Rosebud

ILNP Neon Rosebud

ILNP Neon Rosebud

ILNP Neon Rosebud

ILNP Neon Rosebud

ILNP Neon Rosebud

ILNP Neon Rosebud

ILNP Neon Rosebud

Neon Rosebud, indeed! You really couldn't call this polish anything better suited to its impact. I love the foily finish and the dappled look of the flakies overlapping one another. It adds an impressionist quality that I actually prefer to the sleek modernism of non-flakie multichromes, not to mention the sparkle in sunlight.

I may have to try another of these Ultra Chrome Flakies tomorrow!

love,
Liz