A-England Oberon Fairy King

Like A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oberon Fairy King was released last month by British indie polish maker A-England as part of the new Shakespeare's Fairies collection. Creator Adina describes it as a complex dark smoky green hologram with additional iridescent glimmer. The color is a medium, slatey grey-green, heavily silvered by finely-milled holographic pigment that gives it a delicately-grained, Pointillist visual texture and infuses the look with a luminous, dimensional mist of pale greenish gold edged by subtle hints of rainbow hues that come and go depending on viewing circumstances. The scattered holographic flare in the sun is a wonder -- shimmering, mobile swaths of intense, finely-gradated prismatic color that sweep around a glowing swath of lavender along the axis of light and shade to gunmetal at the edges of the nail.

Application was fantastic. The consistency of Oberon Fairy King is fluid and creamy with a medium viscosity and a fluent, buttery, self-leveling slip over the nail that is amenable to thin or thicker coats as preference dictates. Pigmentation is very good to excellent and produces completely even opaque coverage in two coats. Cleanup is easy. Oberon Fairy King dries naturally in very good time to a beautiful glossy finish. Topcoat does not affect the holographic properties of the polish in any way.

Photos show two coats of Oberon Fairy King over KBShimmer Love You Strong Time treatment and KBShimmer Fillin' Groovy basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

A-England Oberon Fairy King

A-England Oberon Fairy King

A-England Oberon Fairy King

A-England Oberon Fairy King

A-England Oberon Fairy King

A-England Oberon Fairy King

A-England Oberon Fairy King

A-England Oberon Fairy King

A-England Oberon Fairy King

A-England Oberon Fairy King

A-England Oberon Fairy King

A-England Oberon Fairy King

Gosh, I love this so much! It's actually much more noticeably holographic in ambient light than you'd guess from these pics, and feels just perfect for Shakespeare's Oberon and the illusion-filled atmosphere of A Midsummer Night's Dream -- a stormy grey mist within which bloom ephemeral, poignantly beautiful rainbows. The prismatic effects are exquisitely rendered, sometimes subtle, sometimes intense but always incredibly elegant and beautiful -- the very essence of what makes holographic nail polish so magical. Extraordinarily graceful and gratifying on the nail, I feel like I could wear it forever.

xo,
Liz