Picture Polish London

Like Kitty, London was released in December 2017 by Australian boutique polish maker Picture Polish as a Collaboration shade. It was designed by Marine of the French blog Marine Loves Polish, inspired by her favorite place in her favorite city, London's Sky Garden and its 360° panoramic views of the city and its glass buildings. See her post about her polish here.

Marine describes this as "a bluish gray or grayish blue depending on the light, infused with scatter holo and opaque in two coats." The color is a light, translucent variation of blue-grey similar to cool grey, but lighter, milkier and more delicate. It seems to have a greater variety of holographic flakes and particles than other PP scattered holos, and more of them. They read as lemony gold within the base, and create an exquisite, dimensional prismatic flush of pale gold, lemon and peachy pink in ambient light. This flush broadens and intensifies in direct light, where the look is blanketed with scattered holographic sparkle in pasteled rainbow colors.

Application was wonderful. The consistency of London is fluid, light and smooth with a medium viscosity and a fluent, silky, self-leveling slip over the nail, an excellent, user-friendly formula that goes on naturally in thin coats. Pigmentation is very good, opaque in two coats just as Marine says. Cleanup is easy. London dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish.

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

Picture Polish London

Picture Polish London

Picture Polish London

Picture Polish London

Picture Polish London

Picture Polish London

Picture Polish London

Picture Polish London

I'm completely smitten with this understated, atmospheric pale grey and its delicate lemony sparkle. The color is beautifully balanced and really does seem to change with the kind of light in which it's viewed, sometimes appearing more reminiscent of a landscape enveloped in mist or fog and sometimes, especially in direct light, morphing ever so subtly to a muted, greyed-out sky blue or even periwinkle. It has a lovely, crafted simplicity on the nail, supremely graceful and almost dainty, a real pleasure to wear.

love,
Liz