Cyan-Tifically Proven is a beautiful true medium turquoise, a lush creamy cyanic shade with aspects of light sea green and a gently muted quality that reminds me of the polished gemstone from Nevada's Royston mine or older Kingman turquoise from Arizona. There's a certain amount of translucence to the color that allows some light to suffuse and bring out its brilliance. I read that in general, turquoise is approximately 70% blue and 30% green. This one to me has a greenish edge to it in most lights, like something along the line of pearl mystic turquoise. But interpretation of the color and whether it leans more to blue or to green will probably be a highly personal matter, I expect, and influenced as well by the wearer's own skin tone.
Application was wonderful. The consistency of Cyan-Tifically Proven is fluid, light and creamy with a thin-to-medium viscosity (my favorite) and a smooth, fluent glide over the nail. It's a user-friendly formula, amenable to thin or thicker coats and easy to manipulate with Literary Lacquers' round flexible brush. Self-leveling properties are excellent and pigmentation is very good. Two coats delivers evenly opaque coverage to shorter nails. If you have long nails or use very thin coats, you might want a third. I used three thin-to-medium coats for this manicure. Cleanup is easy. Cyan-Tifically Proven dries naturally in very good time to a gorgeous glossy finish.
Photos show three coats of Cyan-Tifically Proven over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.
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In person, there's just a touch more green to the color than what you see here, which plants it a bit more and gives it more weight. Combined with its sleek glossiness, this gives the polish a substantial and stylish presence in addition to the uplifting, balanced serenity that is a hallmark of turquoise. They say that in times of stress and fatigue, if you spend a few moments concentrating on something turquoise you will find a sense of calm and gentle invigoration. I've never tried it, but maybe I should!
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ttyl,
Liz
ps. This polish was provided for my honest review.
Just gorgeous. I love that shade of turquoise. I would have loved to have an egg or round shaped stone of it, just to hold and coo over!
ReplyDeleteI've always loved the greener hues of turquoise, especially if it has a brownish matrix -- these colors are so rich together! Royston turquoise often has a golden brown matrix that is to die for. I'd love a polished slab of that stuff. I may have to get myself one!
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