On the nail, the color most frequently on display is a beautiful medium Majorelle blue edged by indigo, but this polish is so shifty and the colors so mutable that you are always seeing more than just one, with subtle gradients through the spectrum. The blue easily morphs through royal purple to a robust Mardi Gras as you turn your nails toward your light source. Magenta appears at sharper angles still, and grows in warmth to bright red, where it finally segues through a flaming sunset color to gold. Finely-milled holographic pigment adds dimension and further nuances to the color in ambient light, dusting the semi-metallic finish of the polish with delicate silvery motes that explode into a fully linear prismatic display in direct sun, while the minute holographic microglitters create an exquisite twinkling effect as light travels over them.
Application was trouble-free. The consistency of Magnetic Midnight is fluid, smooth and dense with a slightly thicker viscosity than I generally prefer so I added polish thinner at the outset. Thinned, it had a fluent, silky, self-leveling slip over the nail. Pigmentation is sheer. I am always amazed by how the first coat of a multichrome resembles nothing so much as grey dust in a lightly tinted suspension base, you know? This one builds remarkably well to wearably opaque coverage after the second coat, but I added a third to maximize the colors and shiftiness for the photos. Cleanup is easy. Magnetic Midnight dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish.
Photos show three coats of Magnetic Midnight over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.
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Mesmerizing and very more-ish -- you see the color shifting, and you totally want MORE! Much time will be spent gazing at it, holding it up to eye level and spinning around in the sun. At least, that's what went on here today and not much else! *lol*
Don't let the ubiquitous dusty effect of the holographic pigment in my photos mislead you. In person, it's much more subtle as well as prismatic, and the ambient colors are bold and sleek. Plus, the unexpectedly linear holographic display is fabulous! So much to see!
love,
Liz
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