The base color of Bottletown is a medium foresty bottle green, a Heineken bottle sort of green. It's packed with finely-milled holographic pigment, abundant iridescent flake shimmers and glistening glass flecks, and it is delicious! What is it about green holos that they produce such gorgeous nuancing to the base color? In indirect light, Bottletown is beautifully shaded with pale hues of milky cerulean, laurel, fern and olivine. The shardy iridescent flakies light up in gleaming hues of electric blue, grass green and fiery orange as the light hits them, recalling the color play of an opal. Direct light generates a dazzling delineated prismatic display with a flame-shaped flare bounded by thin bands of indigo, electric blue, bright jade and yellow green floating over a central flash of shimmering semi-metallic silvery green. The tiny glass flecks create minute scintillating sparks of light throughout, giving the flare a extra sparkly look.
Application was great! The consistency of Bottletown is a bit more fluid than some of the other Literary Lacquers polishes I've worked with but not overly so, with a smooth, eminently paintable formula. It has a light, easy flow over the nail and very good self-leveling properties. Like Dreamsnake, it's a fast drying polish that doesn't cotton to overmanipulation and goes on best in thin to medium coats deftly applied. I am not particularly deft, but the fluidity of this polish allowed me to produce a relatively clean manicure. Once again we see Amy's signature semi-translucent pigmentation at work, with sheerness on the first coat building to full rich color and opaque coverage in three coats. Cleanup is easy and straightforward but watch out for sticky flakies. Bottletown dries naturally in very good time to a smooth shiny finish. Topcoat enhances the presence and effects of the flake and glass fleck shimmers without interfering in any way with the holographic effects.
Photos show three coats of Bottletown over Pretty Serious Rock On treatment and Pretty Serious All Your Base basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite -- not so bubbly today, hooray! Once again, apologies for the flaky fingers. They're looking little scruffier than yesterday -- time for a good salt scrub!
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There's a lot of light play in Bottletown, which I love. The flakies especially are more active and prominent in person than you can tell from my photos. Their bright green flashes remind me of the green leaves of summer lifting and lowering their faces to the sun on a breezy day. And of course the holo-generated blue-green shades that appear amongst the green in indirect and direct light just send me....
Very cool polish!
love,
Liz
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