Lacquer Slacker Liz: Emily de Molly Four Weddings and a Manicure

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Emily de Molly Four Weddings and a Manicure

Four Weddings and a Manicure was released last month by Australian indie polish maker Emily de Molly as one of three custom limited edition polishes for June 2016 that Hayley created exclusively for members of Hella Holo Customs (HHC) Facebook group. HHC is a private group that solicits selected polish makers for custom polishes every month, which are then available only to members via a special ordering code or link posted in the group. It's easy to join! Just send an email to hellaholocustoms@gmail.com with “join” in the subject line and your facebook profile name in the message.

This particular polish is an exquisite light greige holo bearing ultraholo microglitters, pink microflake shimmers and gold particulate shimmers. The base color is a bone or very pale taupe grey, cool-toned and creamy with a pearly pink aspect and a delicate golden flash. Finely milled holographic pigment floods the polish with shimmering nacreous hues of cream, lavender and misty azure, spangled by tiny sparks in pastel prismatic colors from the microgltters.

Application was delightful. The consistency of Four Weddings and a Manicure is fluid, light and smooth with a thin-to-medium viscosity and a silky, self-leveling slip over the nail. For a component-laden polish, it is exceptionally easy to work with -- no dragging or patching or component misbehavior of any kind and accomodating to thin or thicker coats according to your painting preferences. Pigmentation is excellent, which surprised me because for some reason I was expecting this to be sheer. It's actually very close to being opaque in a single coat, with completely even opaque coverage in two. Cleanup, for me, was kind of disasterous. The tiny microglitters, loosed by acetone, went everywhere! You will see them happily ensconced about my nail environs in the pics. I recommend minimizing the need for cleanup by going for as clean a manicure as possible from the outset. Four Weddings and a Manicure dries naturally in very good time to a finish with a gentle pebbly texture from the microglitters, completely smoothed by one layer of topcoat. Topcoat does appear to inhibit the holographic properties of the polish in any way.

Photos show three coats of Four Weddings and a Funeral over Pretty Serious Rock On treatment and Pretty Serious All Your Base basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Emily de Molly Four Weddings and a Manicure

Utterly gorgeous! The gold shimmers create an underlying sheen over which the holographic effects and microglitters are suspended, adding a lot of depth and dimensionality to the look. In person, it is quite sleek and lively with all kinds of light play, so graceful and flattering and sparkly! I adore it!

And I love the name, too! Hella Holo Customs members participate in the development of the polishes that they solicit in all kinds of ways, including submitting inspirational photos and suggested names. Whoever came up with Four Weddings and a Manicure is a polish-naming genius!

In case you're interested, here's the photo for this lacquer that the group sent to creator Hayley for inspiration: