ILNP Zoe

Like Party Favor and Downpour, Zoe was released last month by Nevada-based indie polish maker ILNP as part of the Holiday 2017 collection. It's officially described as a "raspberry-purple holographic," and I agree! The base color is a medium-dark to dark patriarch purple, well-balanced between red and blue. It is filled with bright pink metallic microflake shimmers that read as a brilliant raspberry color within the base on the nail, especially noticeable along the axis of light. These shimmers brighten the base color and give it more of a Munsell purple appearance overall. The look is dusted and flecked with silvery holographic particles, emitting pinpoint prismatic sparks and a subtle rainbow flush in ambient light. In direct light, they explode into a sparkling scattered display with a gorgeous, mobile prismatic flush that travels up and down the nail as you flex your fingers in the light.

Application was most agreeable. The consistency of Zoe is fluid, light and smooth with a medium viscosity and a fluent, self-leveling slip over the nail, an excellent, eminently-paintable formula that is just what we've learned to expect from the brand. Pigmentation is very good and will deliver a wearable opacity in two coats, although I used three for the photos. Cleanup is fairly straightforward with a bit of stickiness on the part of the pink microflake shimmers. Zoe dries naturally in good time to a smooth, shiny finish. Topcoat accentuates the presence and effects of the microflake shimmers and does not interfere in any way with the polish's holographic properties.

Photos show three coats of Zoe over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

ILNP Zoe

ILNP Zoe

ILNP Zoe

ILNP Zoe

ILNP Zoe

ILNP Zoe

ILNP Zoe

ILNP Zoe

ILNP Zoe

Between the glowing raspberry microflakes and the holographic particles, this polish has loads of light play but I couldn't help feeling that it wasn't quite as bold and showy as the two blues from the collection that I've reviewed -- that is, until I went outside. Even under overcast, rainy skies, the color was so rich and radiant, an intensely vibrant, utterly stunning warm purple! My photos really don't do it proper justice and I can't even imagine what it's like when the sun's out. Fantastic!

xo,
Liz