Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Look at These @#$holes

This Monday, 24 August, Georgia-based indie polish maker Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer will release creator Julie's latest collection, a sextet of neons called Leave the Sun Behind Me, inspired by the 2007 comedy-drama film The Darjeeling Limited directed by Wes Anderson. I have three polishes from this collection to show you, starting today with Look at These @#$holes. 

Described by Julie as a "fluorescent red with pink shimmering glass flecks," Look at These @#$holes is a medium-toned neon red-orange/vermilion. In the bottle it has a translucent sherbety quality that gives way to a bright juicy plumpness on the nail. Creamy and radiant, there's enough pink to it to give it the sort of melony fluorescence that glows with color even in the dimmest lighting. The cool pink glass flecks are a little shy at first glance, but emit a subtle sparkle in direct light, which gives the polish a dewy, glistening aspect. It's a particularly graceful shade for a neon, not at all harsh or sharp, with an expansive, welcoming feel.

Application was wonderful. Julie notes that the Leave the Sun Behind Me neons are slightly thinner than her other polishes, which are designed to reach opacity in two coats, but I found the formula of Look at These @#$holes to be eminently paintable. The consistency is heavenly -- fluid, super creamy and dense, with a velvety, self-leveling glide over the nail. It has a beautifully balanced viscosity for painting and is easily manipulated with BEGL's round flexible brush. Pigmentation is very good, with wearable opacity in two coats. I used three for this manicure to ensure the non-appearance of any visible nail lines, but would happily wear it at two were I not photographing it. This polish applied so beautifully that I hardly had any cleanup to do, even with my shaky hands (which is saying something), but the little I did was easy and straightforward with no pigment travel or residual staining to speak of. Look at These @#$holes dries naturally in good time to a slightly brighter shade than bottle color and a silky smooth, satiny finish that loves a glossy topcoat to make the most of the brilliant color. 

Photos show three coats of Look at These @#$holes over Pretty Serious Rock On treatment and Pretty Serious All Your Base basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite. 

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Look at These @#$holes

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Look at These @#$holes

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Look at These @#$holes

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Look at These @#$holes

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Look at These @#$holes

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Look at These @#$holes

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Look at These @#$holes

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Look at These @#$holes

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Look at These @#$holes

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Look at These @#$holes

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Look at These @#$holes

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Look at These @#$holes

The name of this polish comes from a line in The Darjeeling Limited, delivered just before a random course of events leads to a turning point in the film where the three main characters, all brothers, are unexpectedly delivered from certain emotional and spiritual strangleholds of the past. In a flashback, the brothers are shown on their way to their father's funeral, attempting to commandeer the father's classic red Porche from a repair shop where it has languished for weeks, waiting for a part. Ironic, self-referential and relevant on many levels (as you'd expect from Wes Anderson), it is entirely fitting that Julie marks it with this brilliant shade of vermilion, significant of danger but also of energy and primal life forces.

The Leave the Sun Behind Me collection will be available for purchase this Monday, 24 August, at 3:30pm EDT in Julie's big cartel shop. Price for Look at These @#$holes will be $8.50USD.

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This polish was provided for my honest review.

love,
Liz