Emily de Molly Memory Maker

Memory Maker was released at the end of January this year by Australian indie polish maker Emily de Molly as part of the Valentine's Day Trio, officially described as "a dark raspberry red with blue shimmer and copper flakes." The color is a dark, dramatic, saturated variation of red-violet along the lines of Crayola's jazzberry jam, with aspects of Tyrian purple that wax and wane with the type and angle of light in which the polish is viewed. It has a richly opaque quality but there's still enough translucence to allow easy visibility of abundant, tiny bright blue microflake shimmers along the axis of light as well as small, reflective copper flakes, which gleam in bold hues of flame, raspberry and red as light travels over them. 

Application was great! The consistency of Memory Maker is fluid and full-bodied with a medium viscosity and a fluent, self-leveling glide over the nail. By and large, the copper flakes go on smoothly and disperse evenly with a few attempted protrusions over the free edge, easily rectified by a tip-wrapping swipe of EdM's compact, flattened-style brush. Pigmentation is excellent. There's only a hint of translucence on the first coat that you might not even notice until you apply the second, which does slightly deepen and add density to the color. A bit of pigment travel is released with cleanup, not entirely unexpected, and the shimmers and flakes are a little sticky. Memory Maker dries naturally in good time to a mostly smooth, shiny finish with occasional shallow dimpling from flakes at the surface of the polish. Topcoat accentuates the components beautifully.

Photos show two coats of Memory Maker over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Emily de Molly Memory Maker

Emily de Molly Memory Maker

Emily de Molly Memory Maker

Emily de Molly Memory Maker

Emily de Molly Memory Maker

Emily de Molly Memory Maker

Emily de Molly Memory Maker

Emily de Molly Memory Maker

Emily de Molly Memory Maker

Red-violet is among my favorite colors for polish and this dark beauty is fabulous -- bold, dramatic and seductive, filled with stealthy blue sparks and sensuous, twinkling gleams of analogous hues from the copper flakes embedded within. My photos don't completely capture the deliciousness of those flakes -- for a better idea of what they're like, check out Tracy's photos in her review of the Valentine's Day Trio on Olivia Jane Nails. 

love,
Liz