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| Ninja-lish-ious art by Lou Young (source) |
I use Pretty Serious products every day so I order from them in quantity on a regular basis and can attest to the great job that Alicia does. Only once in three years have I had a problem with an order. When I emailed Kaz about it, she responded immediately. All was made right and I received a bonus polish of my choice (Hell on Wheels) as consolation. Thank you, Alicia and Kaz, for everything you do to make sure we're happy over here on the other side of the globe!
Ninja-lish-ious is a dark blue jelly polish bearing abundant glass fleck shimmers in blue, green and teal. Its listing on the Pretty Serious website describes it as a navy, and you guys know how I feel about navy -- my skepticism was preloaded. Unnecessarily, it turns out, for this is indeed a navy. And with the translucence of the jelly formula allowing light to penetrate, it's actually a vivid navy. Gasp! The glass fleck shimmers catch and hold light too, so the look is pretty spectacular in direct light with bright shimmering sparks of bright blue, green and teal firing from the depths of the polish and scintillating up and down the nail as your hand moves. In low light, the polish is inky and mysterious but still obviously blue, with stealthy hints of sparkle from the shimmers when the light catches them just right.
Application was wonderful. Ninja-lish-ious has a fantastic consistency for painting: fluid and very smooth with absolutely no stickiness and a languid, buttery (yes, a buttery jelly) glide over the nail. Pigmentation is excellent for a jelly with evenly opaque coverage and full bottle color in two medium coats. To avoid any trace of sheerness at the tips, I did an extra wrap in between coats. Cleanup is fairly straightforward with some pigment travel that's to be expected from a polish this well-pigmented but very little residual staining. Ninja-lish-ious dries naturally in very good time to a plump, glossy jelly finish.
Photos show two coats of Ninja-lish-ious over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite. Unfortunately, by the time I got to taking pictures it had clouded over so you get the inky mysterious version in my photos.
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Ninja-lish-ious looks great on shorties too! I had a break (the first in over a year, very sad) on the index finger nail on my cinderella hand and subsequently took down the length of the rest of the nails on that hand to match it. I'll get around to my left hand eventually, but in the meantime I can show you how a polish looks on long and short nails both. Obviously I have no shame.
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Squishy! If you love your dark blues like I do, Ninja-lish-ious will definitely put a smile on your face. Even if you break a nail.
KellyGonzo has a great picture of the kind of sparkly goodness this polish gets up to in direct light in her review, here. Check it out!
love,
Liz
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