Digital Nails Melonade
This is my last sneak peek at what's coming in the Summer 2016 Creme a la Mode box, to be released this month. It's Melonade from Texas-based contributor Digital Nails!
This is a fabulous neon coral, a sumptuous, electric pink-orange with just enough red in it to give it a lush all-over glow, kind of like the way that tanned skin glows if it gets a little burned, and there's a creamy aspect to it that makes it just that much more delicious! On me, the color has an undeniable salmony lean in most lights, but there's quite a bit of rosy pink goodness in there too so it's actually quite difficult to determine just how orange it really is. The color is so intense that trying to figure it out makes my eyes feel like they're attempting a hyperspace jump!
As with the other polishes from this box that I've shown you over the past few days, application was a profoundly gratifying experience. The consistency of Melonade is fluid, full-bodied and super smooth with a thin-to-medium viscosity and a luxuriously creamy glide over the nail that self-levels beautifully. Just an awesome formula! I recommend thinner coats with a bit of dry time in between for happiest application. Pigmentation is very good, delivering wearably opaque coverage in two to three coats. This polish becomes more densely opaque and creamier looking with each coat, so its kind of a matter of personal preference as to how many coats. I used three for this manicure. Cleanup is straightforward with some pigment travel and just a skosh of residual staining. Melonade dries naturally in very good time to a beautiful glossy finish, unusual for a neon.
Photos show three coats of Melonade over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite. Despite how grey my skin looks in these pics, I assure you that I am not dead (yet). That's just how very bright this polish is!
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Unequivocally NEON!!! So fresh! ... exciting... she's so inviting to me.... Yes, I went there, don't judge! Anyway, this is the kind of juicy neon that everyone should have access to in the summer. Good thing that the Summer 2016 Creme a la Mode box is coming soon!
To recap, Creme a la Mode is a quarterly box featuring a creme polish each from four indie brands: Digital Nails, Indigo Bananas, Literary Lacquers and Octopus Party Nail Lacquer. The polishes that make up the upcoming Summer 2016 box are today's Digital Nails Melonade, Indigo Bananas Creme Bluelé, Literary Lacquers Cyan-Tifically Proven and OPNL You Me and Daiquiri. Follow Creme a la Mode or join its Fan Club on Facebook to keep up with the latest info about the impending release of this awesome box o' polish!
love,
Liz
ps. This polish was provided for my honest review.
Wonderful and entertaining review, as always!
ReplyDeleteI'm letting my eyes adjust back to normal conditions, hahah. I have to go to the eye doctor in an hour - wonder if this color will be seared on the ball of my eyeball! It's a fantastic polish for summer, and to have an awesome formula like that in a neon is in the category of bees knees. So, it has now been established that neon polish can have a terrific formula!
Thank you, m'dear. I wish you well for your visit to the eye doc!
DeleteYes! Remember when neons were patchy and tetchy and needed to be applied over white? Those days are gone!