Lacquer Slacker Liz: Pahlish Who Loves Orange Soda

Friday, April 3, 2015

Pahlish Who Loves Orange Soda

Who Loves Orange Soda was released by indie polish maker Pahlish as part of the Summer Soda Fountain collection for summer 2013. Shannon, owner and creative force behind Pahlish, described this as a "vibrant orange jelly base packed with two sizes of blue-violet color-shifting hex and gold metallic microflake shimmer." The jelly base is a juicy true orange, fresh and vivacious with no hint of muddiness. The color-shifting glitters refract through the orange in flashes of gold, green, aqua and palest violet and the golden microflake shimmers in sparks of brilliant metallic orange. All of the components are readily available to the eye, giving this buoyant, playful polish a truly effervescent feel on the nail.

Application was great! The consistency of Who Loves Orange Soda is full-bodied and dense, with a touch of jelly-like stickiness. Given my difficulties with thicker polishes, I added a few squirts of polish thinner to my bottle at the outset. Thus thinned a bit, it had a nicely fluid flow over the nail and self-leveled beautifully. Component payoff is excellent and I had no difficulties with tumbling or protrusions. Pigmentation is very good, with even, mostly opaque coverage (with some visible nail line when backlit) in two medium coats. As a jelly, there is a degree of translucence to the formula that may require three layers if using thinner coats. Cleanup was easy and straightforward. Who Loves Orange Soda dries naturally in good time to a slick, shiny finish.

Photos show two coats of Who Loves Orange Soda over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.