Powder Perfect Saqqara

Saqqara was released toward the end of last month by Australian indie polish maker Powder Perfect as part of the Egyptology Part 3 collection, an ongoing series of polishes inspired by Ancient Egypt. This polish was named for the vast burial ground that served as the necropolis for the Ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis.

Creator Jacinta describes Saqqara as a sunset orange polish filled with gold and silver ultraholo glitters in a holographic base. The base color is a medium-toned persimmon, a variation of red-orange with a pinkish aspect and a slightly muted quality due to a degree of built-in translucence. That translucence allows plenty of light to penetrate and ignite the polish's teeming infinitesimal gold and silver ultraholo microglitters, which enrich the color with a dense blanket of tiny twinkling pinpoint sparks in all kinds of analogous hues -- magenta, bittersweet, orange, pink, rose, flame -- as well as gold and silver. In the sun there is additional sparkle in all of the prismatic colors, and the holographic base generates a vestigial golden flare. There's also a reddish-pink semi-metallic underlay in the sun that transforms to a rich, intense orange under incandescent light.

Application was wonderful. The consistency of Saqqara is fluid, light and unexpectedly smooth for a glitter-laden polish, with a thin-to-medium viscosity and a nearly effortless self-leveling slip over the nail -- a very fluent, user-friendly formula that is a pleasure to work with. Microglitters provide a large part of the coverage and do so very well, with completely even opacity rendered in two medium coats. I added a third to see if it would change the look but I don't think that it made a significant difference. Acetone frees countless teensy microglitters to wander about the nail environs during cleanup, which was otherwise trouble-free. Saqqara dries naturally in very good time to a flat finish with just the slightest bit of texture from the microglitters, easily smoothed by a single layer of topcoat.

Photos show three coats of Saqqara over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Powder Perfect Saqqara

Powder Perfect Saqqara

Powder Perfect Saqqara

Powder Perfect Saqqara

Powder Perfect Saqqara

Powder Perfect Saqqara

Powder Perfect Saqqara

Powder Perfect Saqqara

Powder Perfect Saqqara

Powder Perfect Saqqara

Powder Perfect Saqqara

This polish is incredibly photogenic! It appears quite red in these pics -- in person, the orange tones are stronger. A great polish for fall!

love,
Liz