ILNP High Tide

High Tide was released in March by Nevada-based indie polish maker ILNP as part of the Spring 2017 collection. Described as a bright blue-green holo with gold and green microflake shimmers, the base color is a perfectly radiant pigment cyan. Its intensity appears to grow exponentially as it combines with superabundant gold and green metallic microflake shimmers to produce a brilliant, foily, tropical blue-green with an almost duochromatic sort of shiftiness to it. The shimmers create a glistening metallic golden-green underlay with a reflectivity that rises, gleaming, along the axis of light, creating subtle, dimensional gradations of tropical sea blues and blue-greens in its wake as it does so. Holographic pigment adds a net of scintillating sparkle to the look, and bursts into a bright field of scattered prismatic sparks in the sun. 

Application was fantastic -- the formula is everything we've learned to expect from ILNP, which is to say: it's superb! The consistency is fluid, light and very smooth with a medium viscosity and a perfectly fluent, silky, self-leveling slip over the nail that is amenable to thin or thicker coats as preference and personal technique dictate. It is easy to manipulate with ILNP's flattened-style brush, and allows plenty of time for finessing before it sets up. Love! Pigmentation is very good, delivering evenly opaque coverage in two medium coats or three thinner ones. Cleanup is straightforward with a little stickiness and dispersal on the part of the microflake shimmers but no pigment travel or trace staining. High Tide dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish. 

Photos show three coats of High Tide over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

ILNP High Tide

ILNP High Tide

ILNP High Tide

ILNP High Tide

ILNP High Tide

ILNP High Tide

ILNP High Tide

ILNP High Tide

ILNP High Tide

ILNP High Tide

ILNP High Tide

ILNP High Tide

ILNP High Tide

ILNP High Tide

The color has a touch more green to it with a more complex and dramatic shifty quality in person.

This is a showy, irrepressible extrovert of a polish, perfect for that diva mermaid within. You will not be able to hide your light under a bushel in any way with this on your tips or toes, especially in the sun, so prepare to be noticed! I love the effervescent visual texture that the holo particles bring to the foily, semi-metallic finish -- with the exceptionally brilliant color, it's like a double dose of panache. Woohoo!

love,
Liz