Described by creator Karen as "a multi-chrome linear holographic that shifts between blue, purple, copper, and green," Threaten Me With Life is an all-shift, all-the-time kind of multichrome with no one identifiable base color. It is so multifaceted and shifty that I don't know if I can even describe it properly. The fundamental shifts, to my eye, occur between violet/purple and green/blue-green/blue, with the latter mostly occupying the area of light impact and the violet/purple mostly occupying the surrounding area. Of course, that can change in a heartbeat if you point your nails toward your light source, and the colors themselves vary in brightness and tone depending upon the angle and type of light in which they are viewed, with all kinds of gradations in between. Add to this abundant finely-milled holographic pigment and you have a tour de force chameleon filled with dreamy color nuancing, effervescent visual texture, a flashy semi-metallic underlay and, in the sun, a super sparkly linear prismatic flare with a full contingent of rainbow hues framing a blaze of electric blue-green that shifts entirely to purple when you turn your nails into the light.
Application was just as dreamy as the color shifts. The consistency of Threaten Me With Life is fluid, full-bodied and very smooth with a medium-to-thicker viscosity to which I added some polish thinner at the outset for more fluency while painting. Thinned, it still retained a certain dense quality, with a lush, velvety, self-leveling glide over the nail that had quite a bit of pull to it but was super easy to control with LPL's compact, pliant, flattened-style brush. Pigmentation is very good, with some sheerness to the first coat building easily to evenly opaque coverage with the second. Cleanup is easy. Threaten Me With Life dries naturally in good time to a smooth, shiny finish. Topcoat does not in any way inhibit the holographic properties of this polish.
Photos show two coats of Threaten Me With Life over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.
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My camera simply couldn't pick up the greener shifts of this polish. In person, there is a lot more green to all of the blue you see in these pics.
Threaten Me With Life is what I've come to think of as a "bruise" type of multichrome, and as a multichrome it is pretty spectacular. I have to admit that I do not always possess the most generous enthusiasm for multichromes -- something about the metallic aspect of the finish holds me back -- but the additional holographic qualities of this one make it really special, adding the delicate color-nuancing properties and sparkle of a holo to those multichromatic shifts for a polish that just about gives you a new and different viewing experience with every movement of your fingers. There's something about watching cerulean slide effortlessly through dark blue to violet, all the while edged by minute prismatic sparks, that just slays me!
Most impressive!
love,
Liz
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