Dreamland Boat Snack
Boat Snack was just released for pre-order this month by Missouri-based indie polish maker Dreamland Artisan Nail Lacquer as part of the Wayfarer collection, a set of five polishes based on the 2016 Disney animated film Moana. Described by creator Noelie as a "medium orange linear holographic," the color is a stunning medium-light coppery orange with an amber aspect, similar in hue to the web color orange. Abundant finely-milled holographic pigment dimensionalizes it with analogous shades of misty amber, orange peel and carrot and creates a gleaming coppery-orange semi-metallic underlay with an overt, showy flash. In direct sun, there's a brilliant linear holographic flare with slender arcs in all of the rainbow colors framing a central lick of bright semi-metallic coppery orange and shading to a deeper orange at the sidewalls of the nail.
Application was wonderful. The consistency of Boat Snack is fluid, light and very smooth with a medium viscosity and a fluent, silky, self-leveling slip over the nail, just the sort of excellent formula you'd expect from Dreamland. Pigmentation is very good, delivering completely even opaque coverage in two coats. Cleanup is easy. Boat Snack dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish. To my eye, topcoat deepened the color a touch and intensified the metallic aspect of the polish, but did not in any way inhibit the holographic properties.
Photos show two coats of Boat Snack over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.
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Fabulous! The unique ambery/coppery orange color is buoyant and happy, the holographic effects are excellent and the polish just gleams on the nail. I haven't seen Moana and don't know anything about it but I love the name of this polish, it's so fun to say and it makes a great diminutive. I think I'm going to start using it for my significant other: What's that smell, my little boat snack?
If you're wondering how this polish compares to some of Dreamland's other oranges, Bengal Tiger for example, Jennifer includes an excellent comparison in her review of the Wayfarer collection on My Nail Polish Obsession.
xo,
Liz
Hey, Liz, fabulous photos! I only occasionally polish my nails nowadays and am going through my polishes letting go of the ones I know I will never use again. I am going to try to keep my stash small - thus, trying not to buy new polish. When I saw this pop up, I knew I was in trouble! I kept saying Don't look, don't look ... but I did, lol. I hoped I had a dupe, but no. Bengal Tiger is quite a bit more saturated. It looks more orange/red/copper while this seems more orange/gold. Something lighter to wear for summer. It looks fabulous on you!
ReplyDeleteLara! So happy to see you here!
DeleteI can only confirm your fears: yes, you are in trouble with this one. As you noticed, it's really nothing like Bengal Tiger, which is a deeper, redder, more saturated orange and a velvety kind of holo. This one is a gorgeous amber-hued orange, bright and gleaming, with a slick semi-metallic look on the nail and fabulous rainbow-filled linear effects in the sun. Full of the happy and perfect for summer!
I hope you get it (even though that wish isn't exactly supportive of your downsizing practices). I just know that you'd enjoy the heck out it. It's unique and stands out amongst my orange holos for that gorgeous coppery amber color that still somehow manages to be unmistakeably orange.
Thank you for your ever-generous praise, my dear. Take care of your sweet self!