Grace-full Nail Polish Pavlova Roll

Like Family Traditions and Christmas Eve Magic, Pavlova Roll was just released this month by Australian indie polish maker Grace-full Nail Polish as part of the Christmas Memories collection. It is similar to Christmas Eve Magic in construction, only here in a gorgeous deep purpled magenta or red-violet shade, a rich, berried amalgam of red and plum along the lines of Crayola's jazzberry jam. And as if the color wasn't sumptuous enough, the polish is filled with holographic microflakes that glow in analogous hues of pink, rose, plum, magenta and red from within the jelly base in an exquisite smoldering embers kind of effect that travels up and down the nail with the light.

Application was a delight. The consistency of Pavlova Roll is fluid, light and smooth with a thin-to-medium viscosity and an easy, fluent, self-leveling slip over the nail. Pigmentation is excellent for a jelly. It's very nearly a one coater, but you'll want two for the added richness and depth to the color and the extra holographic flakies. Cleanup was surprisingly easy, a touch of pigment travel but almost no trace staining. Pavlova Roll dries naturally in very good time to a smooth shiny finish. 

Photos show two coats of Pavlova Roll over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite. 

Grace-full Nail Polish Pavlova Roll

Grace-full Nail Polish Pavlova Roll

Grace-full Nail Polish Pavlova Roll

Grace-full Nail Polish Pavlova Roll

Grace-full Nail Polish Pavlova Roll

Grace-full Nail Polish Pavlova Roll

Grace-full Nail Polish Pavlova Roll

Grace-full Nail Polish Pavlova Roll

Grace-full Nail Polish Pavlova Roll

Grace-full Nail Polish Pavlova Roll

Grace-full Nail Polish Pavlova Roll

Grace-full Nail Polish Pavlova Roll

Grace-full Nail Polish Pavlova Roll

Grace-full Nail Polish Pavlova Roll

I love jammy, berried red-violet polishes anyway but the smoldering embers effect of those holographic microflakes pushes this right over the top -- the colors they produce just send me! The pigmentation of this polish is perfect, the color is rich and vibrant but still translucent enough to allow the flakies to fire up gloriously in most lights. Under incandescent light, your nails just glow with color! Stunning!

love,
Liz