Lacquer Slacker Liz: Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Wanna Fall in Love Tonight

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Wanna Fall in Love Tonight

Like Bound to the City Life, Wanna Fall in Love Tonight was originally released by indie polish maker Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer as part of the Spark in the Dark collection in January this year and just recently re-released for pre-order as part of the Fan Favorites collection at the end of June/beginning of July. This is a vibrant medium orchid purple bearing superabundant ultrafine red particulate shimmers. People, this polish is definitely purple shimmer royalty! I believe that the base is slightly more of a violet, but the shimmers with their intense golden red glow turn the polish into a lush radiant orchid shade with that beautiful much-sought-after lit-from-within look. The brilliant luminous orchid color deepens to a violet around the edges, giving the polish a profoundly dimensional appearance in all lights, even in very dim light and shade, which I never would have guessed from looking at it in the bottle. The silky resplendence of that inner glow is simply extraordinary -- I can't think of any other purple like it.

Application was a little tricky for my slow, shaky hands. This is a fast-drying polish and doesn't like to be messed with. The consistency is very nice, fluid, smooth and dense with a silky glide over the nail, but it surface dries almost instantaneously, so application is best done as evenly as possible with deft, swift hands. Obviously, not mine. Pigmentation is excellent, and if you have the mojo, you can achieve completely even opacity in one coat. I had trouble with unevenness when I applied this polish, and the shimmers did show brushstrokes as you'll see in the photos. But if you're smoother and quicker than I am, and most people are, you won't have the same difficulty. Cleanup is easy and straightforward. Wanna Fall in Love Tonight dries naturally in very good time to a satiny matte finish, which loves a good topcoat to make the most of the beautiful effects of the shimmers. Topcoat also helps to even things up and minimize the presence of any brushstrokes.

Photos show two coats of Wanna Fall in Love Tonight over Pretty Serious Rock On treatment and Pretty Serious All Your Base basecoat with a slightly bubbly topcoat of Seche Vite.

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Wanna Fall in Love Tonight

Gorgeous! Even my subpar application doesn't diminish the splendor of this polish! If you want to see what Wanna Fall in Love Tonight gets up to in direct light, I recommend taking a look at the fantastic photos in the reviews on Boom Shaka Lacquer and Royal Milk Tea.

The profusion of ultrafine shimmers in this polish gives it a slightly vintage feel, but the way they create the brilliant orchid color within the violet base is totally contemporary and represents the kind of thoughtful polish composition that I love about indie makers.

The Fan Favorites collection is currently listed for general purchase in BEGL's big cartel shop, so purple lovers, take note! This is definitely one you'll want for your collection!

love,

Liz

2 comments:

Blue Eyed GirlAugust 2, 2015 at 2:01 PM
It looks amazing on you, Liz! I didn't notice anything lacking in your application, so I think that you're probably being more critical of yourself than the rest of us would be :) Despite the tricky application, though, I'm glad that you enjoyed it!
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