ILNP Park Place

Like Sticks and Stones and Cable Car, Park Place was released in September this year by Nevada-based indie polish maker ILNP as part of the Fall 2017 Ultra Holos collection. Officially described as a "dusk blue," the color is a soft, silvery medium blue-grey, similar in appearance to Crayola's wild blue yonder. Heavily holographic, some kind of prismatic flare is almost always visible, with misty shades of blue figuring most prominently accompanied by lavender, pale spring green and wisps of gold and orange, which at oblique angles extend into a beautiful "toasted" effect. In the sun, there's a brilliant linear holographic display featuring arcs in all of the rainbow colors that frame a gleaming central lick of semi-metallic silvery grey and shade to shadow blue at the sidewalls of the nail.

Application was superb. The consistency of Park Place is fluid, light and smooth with a thin-to-medium viscosity and an effortless, silky, self-leveling slip over the nail. Pigmentation is very good. Two coats nets completely even opaque coverage. Cleanup is easy. Park Place dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish. Topcoat does not affect the holographic properties of the polish in any way.

Photos show two coats of Park Place over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

ILNP Park Place

ILNP Park Place

ILNP Park Place

ILNP Park Place

ILNP Park Place

ILNP Park Place

ILNP Park Place

ILNP Park Place

ILNP Park Place

ILNP Park Place

Dusk blue is an excellent descriptor of this polish, both in color and feel. Not dark or moody enough that I'd call it crepuscular, the misty blues and lavenders it displays in low light do have a certain hushed, ephemeral changeability that I associate with twilight. But mostly it is brilliantly holographic, with the kind of color, definition and athleticism in its prismatic effects that you'd expect to see in one of ILNP's Ultra Holos.

love,
Liz