Lacquer Slacker Liz: Indigo Bananas Accretion Disk Holo

Accretion Disk Holo was just recently released by indie polish maker Indigo Bananas as part of Andrea's new line of chrome flakies. There's a non-holo version of this as well, which is what I thought I'd ordered but it turns out that I'd actually ordered the holo versions of this one as well as the other polish in the line, Galactic Halo. Half dozen of one, six of the other -- it's all good!

Here's what Andrea has to say about this polish on the Indigo Bananas website: "Accretion Disk (HOLO version) is a copper to gold to green chrome flakie (a special type of thin multichrome flake) and linear holographic polish. The base of this polish is clear and one coat can be used for a heavy flakie + holographic top coat effect but it is meant as a full coverage polish." The predominant color of this polish depends completely on lighting. In one room of my house, it was a bright spring green. In another room it was a glowing purplish copper. And right now, in my office, with weak indirect afternoon light from an overcast winter sky (we actually had snow flurries this morning!) filtering in through the window, it's taken on a golden cast. Accretion Disk keeps the secrets to its magical color shift close to the vest, but what I can tell you is that it has a burnished, reflective metallic finish with a cloud of holographic sparks hovering over it at any given time. Closely, examined, the flakies are ravishingly gorgeous, multiple colors appearing together in a beautiful mini-mosaic on each nail.

Application was wonderful. The consistency of Accretion Disk is fluid but dense and absolutely packed with flakies, making opaque coverage easy to accomplish. In fact, I only used two coats for this manicure. It is easy to apply but thickens quickly with exposure to air. Closing the top and giving the bottle a few brisk shakes brings back the lost fluidity, and it takes polish thinner well too without losing the component density. Cleanup is easy as long as its done while the polish is fresh. If you wait and those flakies dry on cuticle and skin it's another matter but even then it's possible to remove them with repeated swipes of an acetone soaked cleanup brush. I managed to overlook a few, though, so don't be surprised to see random scattered flakies on my nail environs in the photos. Accretion Disk dries naturally in good time to a smooth, shiny finish.

Photos show two coats of Accretion Disk over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite. My camera seemed to have a hard time figuring out what to focus on with this polish and taking them in natural diminished by heavy cloud cover didn't help, so I took a set of pics down in the kitchen under the halogens as well as my usual lightbox bathroom location. Makes for a lot of photos but hopefully they'll give you a more solid idea of what you can expect from this amazing chrome flakie polish.

Indigo Bananas Accretion Disk Holo

And here are the photos taken under the kitchen halogens along with a little natural daylight from the bay window. The prismatic display from the holo pigment is much stronger in these.

Indigo Bananas Accretion Disk Holo

All I can say is WOW! So colors! Very shine! People, I felt like I was trekking into the future of nail polish as I was applying this, that's how different it feels. It feels different even compared to the other multichromatic flakie polishes I've tried from ILNP. I don't know how much the addition of the holo pigment to the mixture of flakies had to do with that, but the effect is kind of breathtaking, truly. Accretion Disk is a masterful creation, full of color and visual texture. It reminds me of that wonderful poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty. I've quoted it here on the blog before but if ever a polish deserved its company, Accretion Disk is one.

Pied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
    For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
    And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
    With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
          Praise him.

love,
Liz

Lacquer Slacker Liz

Monday, December 22, 2014

Indigo Bananas Accretion Disk Holo

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