Lacquer Slacker Liz: Cupcake Polish Berry Christmas

Sunday, November 27, 2016

Cupcake Polish Berry Christmas

Berry Christmas was released earlier this month by Texas-based indie polish maker Cupcake Polish as one of four limited edition custom polishes for November 2016 created by Sara exclusively for members of the Hella Holo Customs (HHC) Facebook group. HHC is a private group that solicits two polish makers for custom polishes every month, which are then available to HHC members via a special ordering code or link posted within the group. New members are welcome! If you'd like to join, just send an email to hellaholocustoms@gmail.com with “join” in the subject line and your facebook profile name in the message, or click "join" on the group's Facebook page and wait for approval. Easy-peasy lemon squeezey!

Officially described as a "dark pink linear holo with gold shimmer," Berry Christmas is a medium-dark rosy cerise pink with aspects of magenta and raspberry, a resonant, cool-leaning lipstick rose sort of hue that's like a cross between hollywood cerise and Mexican pink. Superabundant golden microflake shimmers float within and read in shades ranging from gold to bright pink through the base, giving the polish an exceptionally shimmery appearance and creating a warm semi-metallic underlay of brink pink. Finely-milled holographic pigment creates shifting hues of glowing violet, misty lavender pink and raspberry that nuance the base color in ambient light, and in the sun there's an extra sparkly linear holographic display predominated by bright arcs of violet and red interspersed with mixed prismatic sparks that frames a glistening lick of silvery brink pink and shades to deep raspberry around the edges of the nail.

Application was fantastic. The consistency of Berry Christmas is fluid, creamy and dense with a medium viscosity and a lush, buttery glide over the nail that is a pleasure to manipulate with Cupcake's rounded flexible brush. Pigmentation is excellent -- you could wear it at one medium coat if you wanted to, but two is better for full, dense bottle color and maximum holographic effects. Cleanup is easy. Berry Christmas dries naturally in good time to a smooth, slightly flat finish that wants a good topcoat to look its best. Topcoat accentuates the presence and effects of the microflake shimmers but does not interfere with the holographic properties of the polish in any way.

Photos show two coats of Berry Christmas over KBShimmer Love You Strong Time treatment and KBShimmer Fillin' Groovy basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Cupcake Polish Berry Christmas

This has a sleek, gleaming presence on the nail with a reflective, almost metallic looking finish in low light and a glowy reddish pink flash that is soooo pretty! It's beautifully put together as you would expect from this brand, with powerful holographic effects that add so much richness and dimensionality to the look in ambient light and of course all of the sparkling prismatic pizazz in the sun. Just a great polish all the way around!

The HHC November 2016 Cupcakes are available until the 30th, so you still have time to pick up Berry Christmas and any or all of the others if you're quick like a bunny!

xo,
Liz

2 comments:

AnonymousDecember 1, 2016 at 11:02 PM
This is such a beautiful polish! I love what a rich and powerful pink it is but in an elegant way not poke your eyes out way. (Huh, that is one strangely put together sentence!) It looks delicious!
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