A-England Peaseblossom A Fairy

Continuing with A-England's Shakespeare's Fairies collection, today's polish is Peaseblossom A Fairy, officially described a violet red hologram with additional iridescent glimmer. The color is a bold, well-saturated, medium-dark red-violet, a lush, berried purple-ish red shade that's about 3/4 of the way between red and magenta on the color wheel, closer to magenta than red. It's saturated enough to nearly swallow the holographic effects in ambient light, but reveals a beautiful prismatic flush in bright direct light featuring a flame-shaped flare of bright red and indigo sparks.

Application was excellent. The consistency of Peaseblossom is fluid and smooth with a medium-ish viscosity that is slightly thicker than the other Shakespeare's Fairies, and I added a little bit of polish thinner to my bottle at the outset. Thinned, it had a fluent, velvety, self-leveling glide over the nail that was opaque in one medium coat, although I used two like I always do. There's some pigment travel with cleanup but little to no residual staining. Peaseblossom dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish.

Photos show two coats of Peaseblossom A Fairy over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

A-England Peaseblossom A Fairy

A-England Peaseblossom A Fairy

A-England Peaseblossom A Fairy

A-England Peaseblossom A Fairy

A-England Peaseblossom A Fairy

A-England Peaseblossom A Fairy

A-England Peaseblossom A Fairy

A-England Peaseblossom A Fairy

A-England Peaseblossom A Fairy

A-England Peaseblossom A Fairy

A-England Peaseblossom A Fairy

Adore!! Red-violet polish is always among my favorites for the poignancy of the color and the fiercely feminine, romantic sensibility it evokes. It just seems to have this amazing, almost untamed kind of vitality, making for an irrepressibly lively, dramatic manicure that simply brims with panache. Superb!

love,
Liz