Application was lovely. The consistency of The Cow's Mouth is fluid, light and smooth with a thin-to-medium viscosity and a silky, self-leveling slip over the nail. It likes to go on in thin coats and is easy to manipulate with Elevation's slender round flexible brush. Pigmentation is sheer. Using medium coats, you may be able to build to a wearable opacity in two, but it's actually easier to apply and goes on more evenly in thin coats, which nets opaque coverage in three. That's what I used for this manicure. It retains a certain translucent quality even then, but not to the point where you can see smile lines. Cleanup is easy. The Cow's Mouth dries naturally in very good time to a smooth shiny finish. Topcoat accentuates the silvery presence of the holographic particles.
Photos show three coats of The Cow's Mouth over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.
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In person, the color is slightly duskier/dirtier than what the photos show, and maybe a tad greener, with a more complex feel to it. It's simply gorgeous on the nail, understated and creamy with a veil of silvery flecks. Swoon.
ttyl,
Liz
Gaaahhhhh, just take my money! Hahah, I am fangirling over this sublimely bewitching polish. With the faint translucence and elegant, soft shimmer of the holo, it approaches ethereal.
ReplyDeleteOkay, now, I am seriously not approaching this negatively but I do wonder about the name. I am LOL at that name - where did they get that phrase! and what brought it about to be the name of a polish - and especially that name for this polish! One thing they achieved (and probably what they wanted) is that, yes, I will remember it!
You would love this beautiful polish, Lara! The color is even prettier than my photos show, not just a sky blue but richer, more complex. And the holo particles give it a sleek silvery look indoors at night under incandescent light. Fantastic!
DeleteThe Cow's Mouth is the terminus or snout of the Gangotri Glacier in northern India, which has a cave-like opening from whence flows the Bhagirathi River, a primary headwater of the Ganges. Now we both know! I was thinking it had to do with cows being sacred in India, but I should have known, this being Elevation Polish, that it was a geographical feature of some kind. It's a sacred site that is the object of Hindu pilgrimage, where the devout travel to bathe in the glacier-fed waters.
Thank you for the research and information, Liz! I also thought it had something to do with the actual animal - I would have never thought it had anything to do with a geological feature. Kudos to Elevation Polish for digging out this gem! I usually catch collection reviews for Elevation but that one doesn't ring a bell.
DeleteI've been missing Elevation collections for the better part of a year. Only Jackie of Adventures in Acetone still swatches them, and they're featured on the Elevatin Polish blog.
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