Lavish Polish Fall Festival

Like Pumpkin Patch, Fall Festival was released in October this year by California-based indie polish maker Lavish Polish as part of the Fall 2016 collection. It is officially described as an emerald green, and baby that is spot on! It's a medium-dark shade similar to pine but less dense, more resplendent, with just the right amount of blue in there to make it precisely emerald. We're talking Elizabeth Taylor Bulgari emeralds here, not pale little garden-filled stones. The color has the saturated yet lucid quality that Emely manages to coax from her pigments, with wonderful holographic nuancing to the base in hues of cerulean, teal, spangled spring green and rich deep bottle green in ambient light. In the sun there's a brilliant, analogously-hued linear prismatic display with bright, sparkling arcs of azure, spring green and olivine framing a glistening blaze of silvery pine and shading to sumptuous emerald at the edges of the nail.

Application was fabulous. The consistency of Fall Festival is fluid, smooth and dense with a medium viscosity that I thinned a bit at the outset. Thinned, it had a lush, velvety glide over the nail, easy to control and a joy to finesse with Lavish's somewhat bushy flattened-style brush. Pigmentation is excellent. Even, wearably opaque coverage can be had in one coat, although you'll want a second for full bottle color. Cleanup was remarkably easy for a saturated blue-ish green, with a tiny bit of pigment travel and trace staining, but as long as you haven't flooded a cuticle or sidewall you should be fine. Fall Festival dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish. Topcoat does not affect the holographic properties in any way that I could tell and actually seems to emphasize the dimensionality of the look. 

Photos show two coats of Fall Festival over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Lavish Polish Fall Festival

Lavish Polish Fall Festival

Lavish Polish Fall Festival

Lavish Polish Fall Festival

Lavish Polish Fall Festival

Lavish Polish Fall Festival

Lavish Polish Fall Festival

Lavish Polish Fall Festival

Lavish Polish Fall Festival

Lavish Polish Fall Festival

Lavish Polish Fall Festival

The holo effects and blue tones are very activated in my photos. In person, especially in circumstances where the light is less direct, what you see is a lively, radiant emerald green. It's absolutely stunning and perfect for the jewel tones of winter.

love,
Liz