She Blinded Me With Science is a true microglitter bomb, featuring a deep blue jelly base packed with bazillions of tiny microglitters in a rainbow of colors. In ambient light, the general impression is of a medium-darkish blue-grey along the lines of Payne's Grey, with hints of royal purple and stealthy turquoise sparks. The teeming microglitters give it an appealing, dimensional, finely-grained visual texture, and explode into a twinkling, multicolored blanket of sparkle in direct light.
Application was most agreeable! The consistency of She Blinded Me With Science is fluid and dense with microglitters with a medium viscosity and a surprisingly light, fluent glide over the nail. The microglitters go on smoothly and evenly, and the polish went on very easily for me in medium coats from a moderately loaded brush. Coverage is provided by the microglitters, which do an excellent job, delivering even, wearable opacity in two coats. I added a third for the photos, and I think it consolidated the base color a little better than two. Cleanup is easy if you do it as you go along. She Blinded Me With Science dries naturally in good time to a flat, sandy finish that is easily smoothed by a generous layer of topcoat.
Photos show three coats of She Blinded Me With Science over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.
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It's true, I did buy this polish in part because of the name. "I can smell the chem-i-cals!" Oh hell to the yes (as my nephew says)! But the stealth of this microglitter bomb with its interesting, muted appearance that bursts into a field of brightly-colored sparks in direct light delights me to no end. So good!
She Blinded Me With Science was inspired by a brightly-colored image of a DNA molecule and named for Rosalind Franklin (1920-58), an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer who was the first person EVER to document DNA's double-helix molecular structure in a photograph (Photo 51). Although other parts of her work were appreciated in her lifetime, her contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA were only largely recognized after her death.
An excellent tribute, Laura!
love,
Liz
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