Spilling Tea is described by creator Karen as "a shimmery, golden mustard matte." For some reason, it's much more difficult for me to visually discriminate between shades of yellow than other colors, and I kind of made myself a little crazy trying to determine the exact nature of this one. It's a warmer yellow with a strong amber aspect, and to my eye it's very close to Pantone's cyber yellow. While it does contain a moderate amount of ultrafine shimmers, this one does not have the added flakies that the other Kiki Vol. 2 polishes do, so the effect is more subtle, a delicate glistening. They also contribute to the softly glowing luminosity of the velvety matte/satin suede finish.
Application was awesome! Yellows are often streaky and just generally difficult to apply. Not this one! The consistency of Spilling Tea is fluid, smooth and dense with a medium-to-thicker viscosity to which I added a couple of squirts of polish thinner at the outset. At a thin-to-medium viscosity, it had a light, fluent slip over the nail with outstanding self-leveling properties for a matte polish. As light a color as it is, pigmentation is a touch more sheer than yesterday's I Hope You're Up Girl. I used three coats to get an opacity that adequately camouflaged the smile lines on my swatching hand, although I found it to be wearable at two for the shorties on my Cinderella hand. Cleanup is easy. Spilling Tea dries naturally in good time to a smooth, matte finish.
Photos show three coats of Spilling Tea over treatment and basecoat, no topcoat.
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer Spilling Tea |
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer Spilling Tea |
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer Spilling Tea |
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer Spilling Tea |
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer Spilling Tea |
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer Spilling Tea |
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer Spilling Tea |
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer Spilling Tea |
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer Spilling Tea |
The ambery look of this yellow makes it very wearable -- it's almost like a pastel orange. I realize that my pasty pinkage is not the best showcase for this kind of color, but I still appreciate the look and the visual tactility of the matte finish is deeply cool. To me, it's much more appealing and unusual than a shiny yellow. It has more of an abstract geometric color block style a la Piet Mondrian that really makes a statement, with a very modern, chic feel on the nail.
love,
Liz
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