Picture Polish Macaron

Like Riviera, Macaron is one of six new Collaboration shades released this month by Australian boutique polish maker Picture Polish. It was created with Laetitia of the French blog iLaeti and ilaeti on Instragram according to her design, officially described as a "raspberry red jelly scatter holographic." You can read her post about it and see her beautiful photos here (translation by Google).

The color is indeed an absolutely perfect raspberry shade, a vibrant, juicy pinkish-red with aspects of cerise and bright corally cues. It has a translucent but profoundly pigmented jelly base that shows off the color brilliantly -- it is intoxicatingly saturated and euphoric on the nail, like sun streaming through a piece of raspberry-colored stained glass. Superabundant holographic flakies fleck the finish and light up in glowing shades of bright red, red-orange, fuchsia and deep pink as light travels over them, creating a mobile, analogously-hued prismatic flush with a warm, dimensional and particularly luminous quality in ambient light that only intensifies in the sun.

Application was delicious. The consistency of Macaron is fluid, light and buttery with a thin-to-medium viscosity and an effortless, self-leveling glide over the nail, a fluent, highly mobile formula that slips on like silky lingerie. Pigmentation is excellent for a jelly, but the glass-like transparency requires at least two coats for full bottle color and three is even better to avoid any areas of sheerness. Cleanup provokes some pigment travel, but trace staining is mostly minimal. Macaron dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish. Topcoat actually seems to intensify the holographic effects of the flakies in this polish.

Photos show three coats of Macaron over basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Picture Polish Macaron

Picture Polish Macaron

Picture Polish Macaron

Picture Polish Macaron

Picture Polish Macaron

Picture Polish Macaron

Picture Polish Macaron

Picture Polish Macaron

Picture Polish Macaron

Picture Polish Macaron

Picture Polish Macaron

Picture Polish Macaron

This is a fresh little gem of a lacquer and a marvelous new addition to the considerable canon of Picture Polish reds. It's bursting with jubilant, vivacious feminine energy and the lush prismatic bloom is just drop-dead gorgeous. Must-have!

love,
Liz