ILNP Night Light

Night Light was released in March 2016 by Nevada-based indie polish maker ILNP as part of the Spring 2016 collection. It's classified as one of ILNP's Jellies, sheer polishes that can be layered to opacity or worn over another lacquer for different effects. Creator Barbra describes this one as a "deep blue-violet jelly loaded with holographic micro-flakes." I wore it by itself.

The color is a translucent medium-dark blue with a softened, dusky quality, similar to liberty from the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names, with aspects of denim and dark sapphire. It's absolutely packed with silvery holographic microflakes, giving it a dimensional, flecked, "snowy night" vibe in ambient light that displays a stealthy prismatic flush as you flex your fingers. This does little to prepare you for the look in direct sun, where it explodes into a dense, dimensional blanket of brilliant prismatic sparkle in every color of the rainbow with a mobile semi-linear effect.

Application was excellent. The consistency of Night Light is fluid, smooth and slightly fluffy with a medium viscosity and a fluent, self-leveling glide over the nail that goes right where you put it and stays there. Pigmentation is sheer, building to evenly opaque coverage and bottle color in three coats. Cleanup is straightforward, with some scattering of the holo microflakes. Night Light dries naturally in very good time to a beautiful glossy finish.

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

ILNP Night Light

ILNP Night Light

ILNP Night Light

ILNP Night Light

ILNP Night Light

ILNP Night Light

ILNP Night Light

ILNP Night Light

ILNP Night Light

ILNP Night Light

There was a time when I avoided ILNP's Jellies because of the three coat requirement for opacity, but I've learned to appreciate the dimensionality and character that their native translucence gives them on the nail. I really love the dusky, mellow quality that the translucent formula brings to Night Light's medium-dark blue; it's such a graceful look, and the feel is simultaneously classy and easygoing, effortlessly chic. Until you get it into the sun, anyway, where the profusion of brilliant prismatic sparkle steals the show.

My significant other came to inspect the "polish of the day" while I was applying it, so I stuck my hand into a shaft of direct sun and pretty much knocked his socks off -- I even got an OMG out of him. C'est si bon!

love,
Liz