Cupcake Polish From Cancun, With Love

From Cancun, With Love was created by Texas-based indie polish maker Cupcake Polish for inclusion in the May 2016 collaboration box from The Holo Hookup. Officially described as an "aqua colored super linear holo with subtle iridescent flakies," From Cancun, With Love is a brilliant cyanic blend of light sea green, cerulean and bright turquoise, a beautiful shifting melange of the tropical oceanic hues that you see in the clean shallow coastal waters that Cancun is known for. Finely milled holographic pigment further nuances the blend into indefinable variations of blue-green, from which flash gleaming analogously-colored iridescent flakies, creating a lush network of reciprocal hues. In direct sun, there's a dazzling linear holographic display with bands of rich cerulean and bright aqua trimmed with a narrow ribbon of lime green and a corona of sparks in yellow, orange and red before shading to dark cyan around the edges, the whole floating over a shimmering underlay of pale metallic sea green. 

Application was delicious. The consistency of From Cancun, With Love is fluid, light and smooth with a medium viscosity and a luxurious, self-leveling slip over the nail. Each brushload delivers a goodly amount of iridescent flakies, which spread effortlessly over the nail without stacking or stickups and only the occasional slight protrusion over the free edge, easily nudged into proper position with Cupcake's round flexible brush. Pigmentation is very good, delivering wearable opacity in two coats, although I used three for maximum flakie goodness. Cleanup is straightforward; any loose flakies dislodge without issue and there's no pigment travel or residual staining to speak of -- hooray! From Cancun, With Love dries naturally in very good time to a mostly smooth, shiny finish with a bit of barely discernible texture from the flakies. Topcoat does not affect the holographic properties of this polish in any way. 

Photos show three coats of From Cancun, With Love over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Cupcake Polish From Cancun, With Love

Cupcake Polish From Cancun, With Love

Cupcake Polish From Cancun, With Love

Cupcake Polish From Cancun, With Love

Cupcake Polish From Cancun, With Love

Cupcake Polish From Cancun, With Love

Cupcake Polish From Cancun, With Love

Cupcake Polish From Cancun, With Love

Cupcake Polish From Cancun, With Love

Cupcake Polish From Cancun, With Love

Cupcake Polish From Cancun, With Love

Cupcake Polish From Cancun, With Love

Cupcake Polish From Cancun, With Love

Cupcake Polish From Cancun, With Love

Cupcake Polish From Cancun, With Love

From Cancun, With Love is the fourth and final polish from the May 2016 Holo Hookup box -- the other three are Glisten & Glow From Tokyo, With Love, Painted Polish From London, With Love and Different Dimension From Cairo, With Love. While I confess to purchasing the box mostly because I just had to have Tokyo, I'm very happy with all of the polishes. Beautiful, interesting creations all, excellent quality too!

xo,
Liz