ILNP Party Favor

Party Favor was just released in November this year by Nevada-based indie polish maker ILNP as part of the Holiday 2017 collection.

This is a sparkly shimmer polish with colorshifting and holographic elements in a fantastic blue tourmaline colorway, primarily a bold, vivacious, medium-dark blue-green or indicolite color that slips effortlessly through royal blue to an intense ultramarine or paraiba shade at certain angles to the light, with corner-of-your-eye hints of mallard green and purple along the way. Super showy! It has a transparent blue-green base bearing multitudinous bright metallic blue and holographic flakies, which read in variations of green, blue-green and blue depending upon viewing circumstances and give this polish an almost glittery sparkle. We're under precipitating wintry skies here again today but I expect that direct sun would add a blanket of bright prismatic sparks to the mix.

Application was a pleasure. The consistency of Party Favor is fluid, light and smooth with a medium viscosity and a fluent, self-leveling slip over the nail that was easy to manipulate with ILNP's compact, flattened-style brush. Pigmentation is sheer on the first coat but will build to a wearable opacity in two. However, I think that the addition of a third adds substantially to the depth, density and richness of the color and that's what I recommend for this polish to look its very best. Cleanup was surprisingly easy. Party Favor dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish. Topcoat seems to accentuate the duochrome-like color shift.

Photos show three coats of Party Favor over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite. Between the sparkle and the low light, it was difficult for my camera to focus and some of these are not as clear I'd like.

ILNP Party Favor

ILNP Party Favor

ILNP Party Favor

ILNP Party Favor

ILNP Party Favor

ILNP Party Favor

ILNP Party Favor

ILNP Party Favor

ILNP Party Favor

ILNP Party Favor

ILNP Party Favor

So much wow! Party Favor is an excellent name for this remarkable jewel-tone -- it has a bold, flamboyant, celebratory feel that just screams New Year's Eve to me. Represent! There's a particularly unusual range of flake size in this polish, from tiny microflake-like bits to larger, more irregular, true flakies, and their metallic nature and reflectivity add a glistening foily aspect to the look that contributes to the ornate character. Party on, Wayne!

love,
Liz