Lacquer Slacker Liz: A-England Angel Grace

Sunday, November 13, 2016

A-England Angel Grace

Angel Grace was released at the end of October this year by British boutique polish maker A-England as part of the Tennyson's Romance collection. It's a medium-toned floral lavender, a clean, lightly silvered shade that is bright and welcoming on the nail. Abundant finely-milled holographic pigment stipples the finish and gives the polish a beautiful dimensional bloom in ambient light. It exhibits A-England's signature scattered holographic display in the sun, a lovely prismatic flush with a rosy golden heart segueing into a gradient mist of tiny prismatic sparks, so pretty!

Application was primo A-England, which is to say: wonderful! The consistency of Angel Grace is fluid, light and creamy with a medium viscosity and a silky, self-leveling slip over the nail, very easy to manipulate with A-England's rounded, flexible brush. Pigmentation is excellent -- it's very nearly a one-coater, but two gives a better density to the color and holographic effects. Cleanup is easy. Angel Grace dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish. Topcoat brightens the color a bit and does not inhibit the holographic effects in any way.

Photos show two coats of Angel Grace over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

A-England Angel Grace

This is a decidedly cooler kind of purple than we saw with Crown of Thistles from the brand's 2014 Elizabeth and Mary collection, but they share that exquisite, holographically-generated rosy prismatic bloom that gives both of these polishes so much dimensionality and character.

If you are wondering where in the world Adina found this color in Burne-Jones' painting, it appears in the small flower that lies on the stair near the king's feet.

Sunday, November 13, 2016

A-England Angel Grace

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