Lacquer Slacker Liz: Chaos & Crocodiles Cosmic Crystal

Friday, July 29, 2016

Chaos & Crocodiles Cosmic Crystal

Like Narwhals Eat Macarons Too, Cosmic Crystal was released last month by indie polish maker Chaos & Crocodiles (C&C) as one of three June 2016 limited edition custom polishes that Sarey created exclusively for members of the Hella Holo Customs (HHC) Facebook group. Officially described as a dark blue-purple holo, the color a deep but lively indigo with aspects of brilliant ultramarine. It's a changeable shade, as most blue-purples are, and will appear more blue or more violet depending upon the circumstances in which it's viewed, going from a deep creamy violet under incandescent lighting to a vibrant ultramarine in bright reflected natural light. Superabundant finely-milled holographic pigment gives the polish a delicately speckled appearance in ambient light and dimensionalizes it with shifting hues of blue-violet, ultramarine, dark sapphire and violet. In direct sun, there's a perfectly delineated prismatic flare predominated by an arc of utterly dazzling azure edged by thin sparkling ribbons of the other rainbow colors before shading to deep indigo around the edges of the nail, the whole floating over a glistening, semi-metallic underlay of silvery indigo.

Application was fabulous. The consistency of Cosmic Crystal is fluid, light and creamy with a medium viscosity and a fluent, self-leveling glide over the nail. It's a user-friendly crelly-ish formula that is amenable to thin or thicker coats and just generally a delight to work with. Pigmentation is excellent. Wearably opaque coverage can be had in a single coat, but you'll want two for richest color and to make the most of its holographic properties. Cleanup is fairly straightforward with a little bit of pigment travel but almost no residual staining -- hooray! Cosmic Crystal dries naturally in very good time to a gorgeous glossy finish, so nice! Topcoat does not interfere with the holographic effects of this polish in any way that I could tell.

Photos show two coats of Cosmic Crystal over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Chaos & Crocodiles Cosmic Crystal

Every holo enthusiast should have a good indigo in their collection and this is a particularly fine one with excellent vibrant color, a gorgeous linear display and a near flawless formula. What's not to love?

xo,
Liz

2 comments:

AnonymousJuly 31, 2016 at 6:33 PM
Your photos and swatches are SO gorgeous. This is a spectacular polish. Everything about it melts a nailista's heart!
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