Colors by Llarowe City Streets

City Streets debuted at The Indie Shop event in San Franscisco on 29 July and was subsequently released on 1 August by Colorado-based indie polish maker Colors by Llarowe as part of the Late Summer 2017 collection. Officially described as "a charcoal grey based glowing holographic with pink, plum and blue shift," the base color begins as a dark medium grey and deepens to a sleek charcoal with topcoat. Finely-milled holographic pigment creates a subtle golden prismatic flush in ambient light, giving the look a lustrous, lit-from-within glow. This polish literally blooms in direct light, a stunning transformation! The colorshifting pigments serve to augment the natural colors of the prismatic display, creating a rich, vibrant gradated flare of shimmering rainbow hues with a noticeable purpley pink flash at the point of light impact. Changeling polish!

Application was fabulous. The consistency of City Streets if fluid, dense and smooth with a medium viscosity and an even, buttery, self-leveling slip over the nail that went on easily for me in thin to medium coats. Pigmentation is outstanding. This is a true one-coater. I added a second to fix some lines left wanting after the first coat, but it didn't affect the look. Cleanup is straightfoward with a bit of pigment travel. City Streets dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, flat finish. As I mentioned above, topcoat deepens the color fairly significantly and gives the polish a smoother, silkier look overall, but it does not inhibit the holographic properties.

Photos show two coats of City Streets over basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite. Sorry I don't have sun pics for you -- it clouded over as I begain photographing.

Colors by Llarowe City Streets

Colors by Llarowe City Streets

Colors by Llarowe City Streets

Colors by Llarowe City Streets

Colors by Llarowe City Streets

Colors by Llarowe City Streets

Colors by Llarowe City Streets

Colors by Llarowe City Streets

Colors by Llarowe City Streets

Colors by Llarowe City Streets

I love grey polish and this deep, dimensional charcoal is just fierce: sleek, graceful and devastatingly elegant, with a holographic display in direct light that is one of the lushest, most intensely-colored prismatic flares I've ever seen on a black or near-black holo. It really is marvelous. A fantastic polish, not to be missed!

love,
Liz