Lollipop Posse Lacquer Dishing Just Desserts

Dishing Just Desserts was released in November 2016 by Ohio-based indie polish maker Lollipop Posse Lacquer as part of the Christmas Kiki collection, a series of polishes inspired by the 2012 song "Let's Have a Kiki" by the American glam rock/disco/alternative band Scissor Sisters. Creator Karen describes this as "a matte, hot pink shade filled with red-purple shifting shimmer." The color is kind of like a cross between hot pink and shocking pink, a strong, bright, medium-dark pink with a rosy aspect, similar to the Xona.com colorlist shade deep pink light. The utterly bewitching, velvety matte/satin suede finish furthers amp up the intensity of the color, and abundant superfine red-to-purple shimmers shade it with a dimensionalizing blush, creating a purple-kissed pink glow along the axis of light.

Application was great! The consistency of Dishing Just Desserts is fluid, full-bodied and smooth with a medium viscosity to which I added a squirt of polish thinner because I am a pathologically fearful creature and wanted to give my application the best possible chance of success. I needn't have worried so much. It adapts easily to thin coats and has a fluent, silky glide over the nail with unexpectedly excellent self-leveling properties -- matte finishes are often quick to reveal nail bed imperfections like ridges, but this one not so much! Pigmentation is very good. Two coats nets completely even, opaque coverage. Cleanup is easy. Dishing Just Desserts sets up and surface dries fairly swiftly, but remains tender underneath for a while longer. To guard against accidental marring and ensure a nice matte finish, allow the first coat to dry for as long as you can before adding the second. 

Photos show two coats of Dishing Just Desserts over treatment and basecoat, no topcoat. 

Lollipop Posse Lacquer Dishing Just Desserts

Lollipop Posse Lacquer Dishing Just Desserts

Lollipop Posse Lacquer Dishing Just Desserts

Lollipop Posse Lacquer Dishing Just Desserts

Lollipop Posse Lacquer Dishing Just Desserts

Lollipop Posse Lacquer Dishing Just Desserts

Lollipop Posse Lacquer Dishing Just Desserts

Lollipop Posse Lacquer Dishing Just Desserts

Lollipop Posse Lacquer Dishing Just Desserts

Lollipop Posse Lacquer Dishing Just Desserts

Lollipop Posse Lacquer Dishing Just Desserts

This polish stunned me with its beauty from the moment I saw the first swatch on cdbnails. I find the shimmery satin suede finish just ravishingly beautiful -- it makes an irresistible siren's song out of the brilliant color, and the uncanny dimensional glow is to die for! I was a little apprehensive about not being able to rely on a quick-dry topcoat because I'm so susceptible to self-fulfilling prophecies (oh, I wonder if this will ding my polish... DING!), but I managed. Double plus worth it!

Alternatively and for a different look, you could topcoat the matte. Beckie's pics in her review of the Christmas Kiki collection on Polished by Beckie do an excellent job of showing the difference between au naturel and glossy. 

love,
Liz