Friday, February 10, 2017

Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show

I Want My Scars to Show was released in October 2016 by Ohio-based indie polish maker Lollipop Posse Lacquer as part of the Things That Can Never Be Unleashed collection. Officially described as a cherry red linear holo, the color is a brilliant pink-toned crimson that's very like Crayola's razzmatazz with a slightly redder undertone and aspects of cerise and raspberry. Abundant finely-milled holographic pigment creates nuanced shades of violet, red-violet and bright primary red within the base in ambient light, and in the sun there's a dazzling linear prismatic display with sparkling arcs of violet and bright red framing a lick of semi-metallic raspberry and shading to carmine at the sidewalls of the nail. 

Application was a pleasure. The consistency of I Want My Scars to Show is fluid, smooth and dense with a medium viscosity and a lush, velvety, self-leveling glide over the nail that has a tiny bit of pull to it, very easy to control with LPL's flattened flexible brush. Pigmentation is excellent, with wearably opaque coverage in one medium coat, although I think the color is denser and more intense after a second. Cleanup is straightforward, with some pigment travel as you might expect and a tiny bit of residual staining to especially dry areas. I Want My Scars to Show dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish. Topcoat does not inhibit the holographic properties in any way.

Photos show two coats of I Want My Scars to Show over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.


Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show


Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show


Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show


Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show


Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show


Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show


Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show


Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show


Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show


Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show


Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show


Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show


Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show


Lollipop Posse Lacquer I Want My Scars to Show

I will never tire of red holos like this. Every year around Christmas, when there's a general proliferation of these polishes, my purchasing of them kicks into overdrive and by the time February and Valentine's Day get here I find myself shepherding a slew of red holos through my swatching chute. I've been trying to kind of space them out this year and you'd think I'd reach a saturation point somewhere along the line, but every time I try a new one I get that particularly ecstatic little zing of transcendence that always seems to accompany the brilliance, energy, drama and pure visual splendor of a red holographic polish. 

And so it is with I Want My Scars to Show, an utterly stunning red holo that unfortunately is no longer listed in Karen's shop. I don't know whether she'll be restocking it, but if she does, grab it! You can never have too many transcendent moments in this life.

love,
Liz

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