Ever After Polish Heart Strings

Heart Strings was released in February this year by Ohio-based indie polish maker Ever After Polish as one of two limited edition custom polishes for Crystal's Charity Lacquers, a facebook group that solicits specially created polishes from indie makers to benefit selected charities. A portion of the profits from Heart Strings and its sister polish, You Aorta Know, was donated to the Heart & Stroke Foundation. It always feels good to be part of this kind of generosity!

Heart Strings is a beautiful medium-toned reddish pink linear holographic polish bearing abundant tiny flakes in metallic pink and silver. The color looks to me to land somewhere between cerise and French rose on the spectrum of reddish pinks, with a delicious creaminess to it that gives it a particularly graceful, genteel aspect, 
enhanced by misty, holographically-nuanced hues of cherry blossom pink and lavender in bright ambient light. The pink and silver flakes gleam brightly as light travels over them and appear to stand out in relief from within the polish, created a lovely limpid depth to the look on the nail. An especially sparkly, fully linear prismatic display fires up in direct sun, with slender bands in every rainbow color surrounding a central lick of shimmering, semi-metallic pale pink. 

Application was wonderful. The consistency of Heart Strings is fluid, creamy and dense with a medium viscosity and a plush, velvety glide over the nail that is easy to manipulate with Ever After Polish's slightly bushy flattened-style brush. Self-leveling properties are excellent, as is pigmentation -- it comes close to being a one-coater! I used two medium coats for evenly opaque coverage. Cleanup is easy and straightforward, and this polish went on so easily that I had only a little of it to do. Heart Strings dries naturally in very good time to a smooth finish with a soft shine. Topcoat adds a becoming gloss, enhances the presence and effects of the flakies and does not interfere with the polish's holographic properties in any way. 

Photos show two coats of Heart Strings over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Ever After Polish Heart Strings

Ever After Polish Heart Strings

Ever After Polish Heart Strings

Ever After Polish Heart Strings

Ever After Polish Heart Strings

Ever After Polish Heart Strings

Ever After Polish Heart Strings

Ever After Polish Heart Strings

Ever After Polish Heart Strings

Ever After Polish Heart Strings

Ever After Polish Heart Strings

Ever After Polish Heart Strings

Ever After Polish Heart Strings

Ever After Polish Heart Strings

Ever After Polish Heart Strings

This is a gorgeous little gem of a polish, I just love it! You don't usually see silver paired with pink, which makes this one very special for us silver lovers. The color is clean and vibrant but not too intense, an eminently wearable, flattering shade that sits prettily on the nail. It's like the nail polish equivalent of a happy hug from a child, full of honest, heartwarming sweetness.

Keeper!

xo,
Liz