Application was great! The consistency of Wait Wait Wait Is This a Kissing Book is a little gel-like due to the suspension base and fluffy with flakies but surprisingly fluid never the less, with a smooth, easy flow over the nail. There was a bit of flakie tumbling, some free edge protrusions and a couple of stickups (mostly on the sidewalls) but the components disperse evenly and the polish self-levels very well to a remarkably smooth finish. Coverage is a function of the components, which are dense enough to provide mostly opaque, wearable coverage in three coats albeit with some sheerness on the tips. Cleanup is something you'll want to do as little as possible of with this polish. The golden flakies, especially, stick like limpets to whatever surface they hit, and the tiny magenta microglitters are a bear to remove with a cleanup brush. A proactive approach of as clean an application as possible is the way to go. Not my forte! And I have the random components sprinkled over my nail environs to prove it. Ah well! Wait Wait Wait Is This a Kissing Book dries naturally in very good time to a mostly smooth shiny finish with a very slight discernible texture from the components. I opted for a matte topcoat to finish, the better to show off the gleaming flakies.
Photos show three coats of Wait Wait Wait Is This a Kissing Book over treatment and basecoat with a layer of OPI Matte Topcoat.
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This polish saw a two-plus-year stint on my wishlist before I picked it up only recently during one of Jenna's sales. It had been stuck in my head from the moment I first saw it swatched by Mishka of Accio Lacquer in February 2013... something about the gleaming pastiche of fiery analogous colors is just delicious and nigh irresistible to my eye. I'm very pleased to have it finally, it joins a couple of other similarly composed lacquers in my stash as the original holy grail, but there's a little bit of a disconnect between looking at it and actually wearing it. It's a bit more subtle on the nail than macro and bottle shots would lead you to believe -- the exquisite mini mosaic of the components doesn't have the same drama on my fingertips that I so love when I have it right up to my eyeball, and I'm thinking it might just be too soft and delicate to stand up to my pinkage....
I still love it's construction, though, and I still think it's a gorgeous polish, especially with a matte topcoat.
Speaking of drama, the Zoya Earth Day polish exchange and sale currently afoot always has such a momentous psychological impact on my nail polish doings. Am I the only one? I'm sure that little virtual Zoya shopping cart will be seeing a lot of action for the duration of the sale as I collect and cull way too many polishes for my own good in my quest to put together a reasonable purchase. I currently have fifteen in there right now, but there you go, that's way too many! I'm about ready to dump them all and start over with a more focused scope. Lather, rinse, repeat. Good times, bring a date!
love,
Liz
SO BEAUTIFUL, especially in the shade!!! It reminds me a bit of Rainbow Honey "The Master". A persimmon version with golden flakies. I think this is charming on you :) Excellent pictures! You do always seem to capture the best personality traits of polishes I have overlooked, hhaha.
ReplyDeleteZoya Earth Day has always confused me a little bit... the premise is that they just want pre-three-free polishes, yes? I think I might have exactly one, and it's an discontinued OPI black label (Ocean Love Potion), same color used for my first ever manicure. I remember choosing it because it was the only polish that was not red or pink, and so it stood out to my middle-school-age eyes. I hunted it down on eBay when I got into polish a few years ago, and that thing is a relic! I don't even think I've even used it but it's nostalgic to have around (and extremely beautiful, seafoam shimmer with blue shift and silver microflakies... it would be a great addition to the Naileontology series!!!) And I'm not about to send in perfectly good polishes with no harmful chemicals for them to just throw away- feels like a weird sacrifice ritual, haha. The trade-in idea made sense at the dawn of Three-Free (or nine-free, whatever we're up to now), but anymore I wonder if they should refine the concept.
Marisa, you don't need to return any polishes to take advantage of Zoya's Earth Day two for one deal. I never have. They're just giving folks the opportunity to dispose of old polishes safely -- if they want to. And it doesn't matter what kind of polish you send back if you do send some. You can send any polish you want. But you don't have to and you can still get the two for one. The only thing you must do to get the deal is buy at least six.
DeleteI wish I loved this polish as much on the nail as I do in the photos but in person it just doesn't have the same charm. At least on me! But I'll always accept a compliment so thank you, dear! You're right, it's very like The Master, perhaps a little more pink but they are quite close. :)
I think I have done the Earth Day deal once before, and yeah didn't send in any polish, but I think they should present it more like you just have. Even though I know that's their intention, I still always feel guilty when I read the emails about the "honor system" and such... I feel like I'm skipping class or something, haha! Though truthfully the opportunity to dispose of old polish is a better one than I realized until a few days ago, when I read that nail polish is technically considering a biohazard by the EPA and is banned from landfill disposal, though an exemption exists for household use due to the sheer impossibility of enforcing such a ban. I mean, I knew it wasn't a fabulous material to leech out into the environment but goodness...
DeleteI will just have to take your word for it, because this looks AMAZING in pictures!! What an interesting paradox, that it should be more compelling in images than in real life. If anything I usually have the opposite problem, haha :P Such a great name, though!