Top Shelf Lacquer Inebriated

Like Tanked and Boozed Up, Inebriated was released in July this year by Ohio-based indie polish maker Top Shelf Lacquer as part of the Drunken Fall Creme Holos collection. Amy describes this one as a Prussian blue creme holo polish. The color is a creamy medium-dark grey-ish blue, a resonant, November stormcloud sort of shade along the lines of dark blue-grey. You could almost consider it a dusty navy or a blueberry color. Abundant finely-milled holographic pigment reads as gold within the base, adding a stealthy golden shimmer to the look in bright ambient light that blooms in direct sun to a scattered holographic display with a delicate, vestigial arc of prismatic sparks. 

Application was fantastic. The consistency of Inebriated is fluid, light and creamy with a thin-to-medium viscosity and an even, buttery-smooth, self-leveling slip over the nail, very user-friendly and a pleasure to work with. Pigmentation is very good to excellent. It's almost completely opaque in a single medium coat but use two to build up any lingering areas of translucence. Cleanup is easy. Inebriated dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish.

Photos show two coats of Inebriated over basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Top Shelf Lacquer Inebriated

Top Shelf Lacquer Inebriated

Top Shelf Lacquer Inebriated

Top Shelf Lacquer Inebriated

Top Shelf Lacquer Inebriated

Top Shelf Lacquer Inebriated

Top Shelf Lacquer Inebriated

Top Shelf Lacquer Inebriated

Top Shelf Lacquer Inebriated

Top Shelf Lacquer Inebriated

Top Shelf Lacquer Inebriated

Top Shelf Lacquer Inebriated

I am completely obsessed with this color -- I find it poignantly beautiful. It has a crepuscular aspect to it that makes me think of the billow of heavy clouds at twilight, a moody, pastoral sort of hue with hints of violet that you'd see in the lengthening shadows of a landscape painting set in late afternoon. On the nail, it has a graceful, slightly reserved feel with a certain romantic sensibility that just sends me. I'd say that it is profoundly evocative rather than spectacular, but all the better for being so. Blue polish lovers, you want this! Really, really wonderful.

love,
Liz