Application was fantastic. The consistency of Cat in the Christmas Tree is fluid, light and smooth with a silky slip over the nail and excellent self-leveling properties. It's quite user friendly and easy to manipulate with Nine Zero's flattened flexible brush. Pigmentation is excellent for a jelly-based polish, with some sheerness to the first coat building quickly to fully opaque coverage after the second. Cleanup is fairly straightforward with a tiny bit of pigment travel and trace staining (incipient hangnails are always up for taking on color, it seems), but the tiny microglitters are not overly sticky. Cat in the Christmas Tree dries naturally in very good time to a shade that's lighter and brighter than bottle color and a gently sandy, flat finish that wants a good topcoat to smooth out the surface and add shine, allowing the polish to look its best. It's not excessively topcoat hungry but I could begin to feel a bit of the texture coming through on some nails after one layer of topcoat had dried so I added another for a truly glossy, glitter-under-glass look.
Photos show two coats of Cat in a Christmas tree over treatment and basecoat with a double topcoat of Seche Vite.
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Unfortunately my camera was not keen to pick up the colorful nature of the sparkle in this pretty polish. However photos that do show its prismatic properties can be seen on the Cat in the Christmas Tree listing on the Nine Zero website.
This is a unusual shade of green for me. My preference is for greens that lie at the far ends of the cool/warm spectrum while this one sits comfortably in the middle. For all of the green polish that I own, I really don't have any similar medium-dark "neutral" greens in my collection, so Cat in the Christmas Tree is a welcome, aesthetic-expanding addition.
love,
Liz
Lordy, you are determined to make me get my wallet out! Although I don't wear much green, I do love it, especially one as beautiful as this one. And, hahah, I sure don't have one that has that brilliant holo quality.
ReplyDeleteWe are having very muggy, too-warm days. Today is suppose to hit 80F. But, at least, there is sunshine. However, it is ridiculous to be wanting to turn on the air conditioner in these later stages of December. And to be using mosquito spray to deter the pests from making life miserable. Come on cold weather!
Lara, you could do much worse than snag a polish or two from Nine Zero! Eminently paintable formula in eminently wearable colors. I recommend her stuff!
Delete80F! Perhaps I should count my blessings. We've had an incredible amount of rain over the last two days and the humidity is so thick you could swim in it. It's supposed to be around 70F today. Ugh. Thankfully, no mosquitos though.