Application was lovely. The consistency of Disappearing Daylight is fluid, light and creamy with a medium viscosity and a velvety glide over the nail with just a bit of pull to it. It has a creme/jelly hybrid kind of formula with a bit of built-in translucence and builds to opacity over multiple coats. Two medium coats will net wearable coverage, but the most even opacity and richest color is better had with three thinner ones, which is what I used for this manicure. Cleanup is easy and straightforward, with a skosh of stickiness on the part of the bronze microflakes. Disappearing Daylight dries naturally in good time to a silky smooth, shiny finish. Topcoat enhances the presence of those delicious shimmers.
Photos show three coats of Disappearing Daylight over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.
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My camera didn't do a great job of rendering the true color of this polish -- in person, it seems a little greyer and richer than the photos show, with a drop of violet essence. More like this:
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It's a lingering summer twilight kind of color, the color of the ambient light that's left on a summer evening just after the sun goes down, a gloaming in which light colors seem almost to fluoresce. The kind of light that you played kick-the-can in after dinner when you were a kid (I bet nobody plays kick-the-can these days, and that's a shame). As a tween, I used to love hanging out in someone's yard in this light, watching the fireflies, talking smack and thinking about boys. And horses. Horses and boys.
Mariah pretty much nailed the concept with this shade. As a nail color, it is elegant but not the least bit contrived -- there's a certain organic quality to the beauty of this lacquer that makes it eminently wearable.
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Isn't it aggravating when your camera won't process the correct color? I did some comparison swatches on white paper for a group and my silly phone wouldn't take the right color to save my life. It's especially aggravating when you are doing comparison swatches! Still, though, that polish is pretty. Thank you for including that color block to show its true color. I know exactly the evening light you wrote about. When we go to our country place, my husband and I frequently go down to the lower level pasture in late afternoon and get comfy at the tree line so we can oversee the tall-grass pasture. As the afternoon progresses into evening, the lighting is truly a magical thing. This is also the time when a small herd of deer routinely softly makes its way across the pasture. Their coloring so perfectly matches the grasses in the autumn that they look magical as they cut across the open area to the other side of the forest. I am always in awe. There is something so mystical about that edge of twilight with the tall grasses faintly swaying and then, without any notice and before your eyes, you see these ghostly forms appear, stepping out of the woods and make their way across the meadow making absolutely no sound. With their silence and the purposeful, steady way they travel, they seem to float across, like some mythical creature! I almost expect to see legendary Standing Stones appear! I wonder, is that time of day what the French call the Blue Hour.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that my older camera did really well was capture colors. Neons, blurples, nothing seemed to elude it. My new camera does everything else so much better, but it does have issues rendering certain notoriously difficult colors, and violet-leaning bues are in that category.
DeleteWhat a lovely, magical, romantic thing to do, spending the blue hour together in nature! Your place sounds like a wonderful oasis.
That's exactly it, l'heure bleue! In English it's often called the magic hour. Wikipedia says this is the period of twilight during dawn and dusk when the sun is a significant distance below horizon and the earth and sky are at relatively the same luminosity. Apparently the incredible blue color of the sky during this time is due to the easier diffusability of blue light wavelengths in the atmostphere over red.
Guerlain makes a famous perfume called L'heure Bleue, a beautiful powdery oriental with a rainy, slighly mossy aspect to it and a wonderful resiny vanilla in the base. I love it, but I've learned that I must wait until the mood strikes me to wear it well.