Don Deeva Smack & Cheese

Smack & Cheese was released last month by Florida-based indie polish maker Don Deeva as one of three limited edition custom polishes that Danette created exclusively for members of the Orange You Glad to Be Here orange polish lovers Facebook group. Love the name of this lacquer, so very Deeva-liscious! It's described as an "orange holographic sauce with purple ultra chrome flakes running throughout."

The color is a muted, translucent, medium-toned shade along the lines of Persian orange, in the same family as burnt orange but a little lighter and more orange, less brown. Fine holographic pigment reads as gold within the base, adding a luminous golden shimmer in ambient light with dimensionalizing nuances of amber and bittersweet to the base color. Irregularly-shaped ultrachrome flakies are relatively small but easily visible, giving the polish a rakish, speckled look and flashing in shades of violet and blue as light travels over them. In the sun, there's a sparkling, fully-linear prismatic flare with dominant arcs of orange and spring green.

Application was great! The consistency of Smack & Cheese is fluid, light and smooth with a medium viscosity and an easy, fluent, self-leveling glide over the nail. The flakies go on effortlessly without stacking or stickups and disperse evenly. Pigmentation is sheer, building to a wearable opacity in three coats. Cleanup is easy. Smack & Cheese dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish with occasional dimples from flakies at the surface. Topcoat does not in any way interfere with the holographic properties of the polish.

Photos show three coats of Smack & Cheese over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Don Deeva Smack & Cheese

Don Deeva Smack & Cheese

Don Deeva Smack & Cheese

Don Deeva Smack & Cheese

Don Deeva Smack & Cheese

Don Deeva Smack & Cheese

Don Deeva Smack & Cheese

Don Deeva Smack & Cheese

Don Deeva Smack & Cheese

Don Deeva Smack & Cheese

Don Deeva Smack & Cheese

This polish manifests the mischievous, unpredictable personality of the brand and I love that! It's kind of a novelty look, dignified by careful craftsmanship. Violet and blue are complementary to orange-yellow and orange, and the flashy ultrachrome flakies are fabulous with the orange base color. An excellent polish for fans of institutions with orange and blue as their official colors, and, of course, for orange-loving polish enthusiasts everywhere. Thank you, Danette!

love,
Liz