Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Paint Uranus Pink

This post is dedicated to Erik Engberg, who enjoys seventh planet puns more than any person should.

Paint Uranus Pink is part of the core line of Michigan-based indie polish maker Carpe Noctem Cosmetics. I'm not sure when creator Emily released this polish. It went on my wishlist for the name alone the moment I came across it, which seems like it was a while ago now. Just recently I made a point of visiting the Carpe Noctem myshopify store and purchasing it, along with two other pink polishes that I suspect will inevitably make their way here also.

Emily describes Paint Uranus Pink as a super bright magenta holo and I agree. Loaded with fine metallic hot pink shimmers, the overall impression is of an intense steel pink with aspects of orchid. It has a gleaming, semi-metallic finish with that slightly dusty holo look that shimmer holos sometimes have and a wonderful purpley pink flash. In direct sun, the color brightens to a hot pink and the dustiness transforms into a sparkling prismatic mist. Now I'd have bought this no matter what it looked like, but it is totally gorgeous, a fiercely feminine, unrepentantly flamboyant eye-catcher of a polish.

Application was lovely. The consistency of Paint Uranus Pink is fluid, light and creamy with a medium viscosity and a fluent, silky slip over the nail. Self-leveling properties are excellent as is pigmentation, delivering opaque coverage in a single coat. I used two coats for this manicure as I usually do, but it honestly did not seem to affect the look of the polish on the nail at all. Cleanup is easy and straightforward with a skosh of pigment travel but no residual staining to speak of. Paint Uranus Pink dries naturally in very good time to a silky smooth finish with a soft shine. Topcoat adds a becoming gloss and does not affect the holographic properties of the polish in any way that I could tell. 

Photos show two coats of Paint Uranus Pink over Pretty Serious Rock On treatment and Pretty Serious All Your Base basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Paint Uranus Pink

Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Paint Uranus Pink

Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Paint Uranus Pink

Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Paint Uranus Pink

Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Paint Uranus Pink

Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Paint Uranus Pink

Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Paint Uranus Pink

Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Paint Uranus Pink

Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Paint Uranus Pink

Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Paint Uranus Pink

Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Paint Uranus Pink

Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Paint Uranus Pink

Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Paint Uranus Pink

Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Paint Uranus Pink

Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Paint Uranus Pink

Dat shimmah, tho'!

I don't remember being the slightest bit embarrassed by the traditional English pronunciation of Uranus until middle school, so I must have learned my planets before I grasped the concept of double entendre. Well, either that or I hadn't yet been exposed (so to speak) to the proper anatomical term for that part of the body. A sheltered life dot com.

It's worth pointing out that only in English is it impossible to speak the name of the seventh planet aloud without somebody in earshot snickering. Other languages handle it much more gracefully than we do. We get all the fun, don't we? 

ttyl,
Liz