This one is officially described as "a hot coral pink linear holo with added shimmers." The color is delicious. It's a lighter, almost pastel blend of pink and orange to produce a warm, creamy coral or congo pink, which bears superabundant baby pink shimmers that give it cool pink highlights and a pale pink sheen along the axis of light. Finely-milled holographic pigment adds a delicately-grained, dimensional visual texture to the look. The shimmers cause the linear flare to be slightly dispersed but also give it extra sparkle, with a predominating, dimensional, sparkling arc of pale gold that travels up and down the nail as you bend your fingers in the light.
Application was excellent. The consistency of Kicking Multiple Scleros-ass is fluid and creamy with a medium viscosity and a plush, smooth, self-leveling glide over the nail. The formulas for this trio are all consistently wonderful and extremely satisfying to work with. Pigmentation is very good, with a few areas of sheerness on the first coat building easily to completely even opacity with the second. Cleanup is fairly easy. The shimmers don't disperse over the skin as much as yesterday's polish, dreaMS, but they do like to stick to the nail a bit. Kicking Multiple Scleros-ass dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish. Topcoat accentuates the cool pink of the shimmers.
Photos show two coats of Kicking Multiple Scleros-ass over basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.
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After swatching the first polish of this trio, No MS'ing Around, I tentatively picked that one as my favorite. Well, it's been supplanted. Kicking Multiple Scleros-ass is my new favorite. My love for coral polishes usually confines itself to the brightest variations, but the soft, creamy color of this orange-tinged pink is just exquisite.
There's a certain suave, stylized feel to it as well that is also present in the other two polishes. It's almost a kind of nostalgic sensibility that's difficult to articulate but reminds me of the sunbathing ladies of my childhood, mothers of friends who would be all oiled up and laying out in the sun when I came over to play. Perhaps it is a little girl's fascination with the mystery and sophistication of women and their beauty rituals that is recalled, somehow, by the look of the polishes in this trio.
I don't know, it may be singular to my perception. But these are special lacquers, no doubt about it. If you managed to purchase them while they were available and haven't tried them yet, you're in for a treat!
love,
Liz
It's a rare pink that makes me go ooh, but this one certainly did. I know what you mean about the vintage look - it's very 50s, somehow, but with a contemporary twist.
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful color, isn't it? I still can't quite put my finger on what it is about this polish, and the other two as well, that makes them so special. You're right, lasoti, I think it is kind of 50s, that precocious sense of being dolled up, with shoes that match and matching flowers in your hair. The holo is the contemporary twist!
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