Girly Bits Hot Stuff

Like Stayin' Alive and Brick House, Hot Stuff was released in May this year by Canadian indie polish maker Girly Bits as part of the disco-themed Sequins and Satin Pants collection. This one gets its name from the 1979 song "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer (RIP). 

Described as a hot pink jelly holo with holographic microglitters, shimmers and holographic flakes, this is a gorgeous, ebullient shade. It's very bright and opaque and a little rosier than what I generally think of for hot pink, perhaps due to the fact that it's packed with rosy pink shimmers, but the intensity of the color is not at all shrill. To my eye, it's similar to rose bonbon, but slightly lighter and warmer, with suggestions of a neon pink's reddish tinge around the edges. Abundant finely milled holographic pigment dimensionalizes it with hues of ultra pink, French pink, raspberry and hints of red-violet, and the metallic pink shimmers create a bright semi-metallic pink underlay that rises to the surface in certain circumstances. The holographic microglitters twinkle in shades of pink and purple through the base in ambient light and, along with the holo flakies, erupt into a dazzling field of prismatic sparkle in the sun. 

Application was just as brilliant as the color. The consistency of Hot Stuff is fluid and dense with a medium-to-thicker viscosity to which I added a couple of squirts of polish thinner to at the outset. Thinned, it had a lush, eminently-paintable, self-leveling glide over the nail that goes on naturally in medium coats. Pigmentation is outstanding. It's essentially a one-coater, but a second does deepen the color just a hair. I highly recommend doing any necessary cleanup as you go along to avoid sticky glitters. Hot Stuff dries naturally in good time to the kind of gently textured finish that Girly Bits' Glitter Glaze topcoat was made to smooth. It's the perfect topcoat for these Sequins and Satin Pants polishes, I can't say enough good things about it!

Photos show two coats of Hot Stuff over ÜNT peel-off basecoat with a topcoat of Girly Bits Glitter Glaze.

Girly Bits Hot Stuff

Girly Bits Hot Stuff

Girly Bits Hot Stuff

Girly Bits Hot Stuff

Girly Bits Hot Stuff

Girly Bits Hot Stuff

Girly Bits Hot Stuff

Girly Bits Hot Stuff

Girly Bits Hot Stuff

Girly Bits Hot Stuff

Girly Bits Hot Stuff

Girly Bits Hot Stuff

Girly Bits Hot Stuff

I love high-spirited rosy pinks like this! I think of them as "petunia pinks" -- they have a certain creamy, floral quality that I find especially engaging and gregarious, and this one has the added lushness of the holographic properties plus the sparkly exuberance of the glitters. It's fabulous! I should have expected that, based on the other two I've tried, but it still surprised (and delighted) me. Yet again, I am smitten!

This is the last of the Sequins and Satin Pants polishes that I purchased. If you've not picked up any of them yet yourself, I can tell you with surety that they will not disappoint you. I am thrilled with the three that I got and if my personal stash wasn't so massive I'd be all over the other four. Truly an excellent collection, one of my favorites so far this year. Don't forget the Glitter Glaze!

love,
Liz