ILNP Wanderlust

Wanderlust was released earlier this month by Nevada-based indie nail polish maker ILNP as part of the Summer 2017 collection. This is a chilly medium fuchsia with steel pink overtones, similar to a sky magenta in tone and depth, with a slightly faded, antique quality in ambient light and a strong semi-metallic aspect. It's packed with silvery holographic elements sized from particles to flakes, giving it a flecked visual texture that somehow seems to add to the color's slightly desaturated sensibility. It also appears to have an abundance of finely-milled metallic shimmers in steel pink that show shifts to gold and even copper at oblique angles. I think that it is at its best in the sun, where the color picks up some saturation and density beneath a dense field of brilliant scattered prismatic sparkle.

Application was great! The consistency of Wanderlust is fluid, light and smooth with a viscosity that's a touch thinner than medium and a fluent, effortless, self-leveling slip over the nail. Pigmentation is sheer, buildable to evenly opaque coverage in three coats for me. Cleanup is straightforward, with some dispersal and stickiness on the part of the holographic flakes. Wanderlust dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish. 

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

ILNP Wanderlust

ILNP Wanderlust

ILNP Wanderlust

ILNP Wanderlust

ILNP Wanderlust

ILNP Wanderlust

ILNP Wanderlust

ILNP Wanderlust

ILNP Wanderlust

ILNP Wanderlust

ILNP Wanderlust

ILNP Wanderlust

I'm kind of on the fence about this polish. As I mentioned, the semi-metallic steel pink aspect mixed with such an abundance of silvery holo bits gives the color a slightly desaturated quality in ambient light that, while flattering and feminine, just feels a little old-fashioned to me, I guess. If it were a lippie, I'd probably be all over it. It is beautiful in the sun, though. The gleaming color deepens and brightens and all of those silvery bits explode into a bazillion tiny prismatic sparks.

love,
Liz