The color is a slightly heathery, rich medium purple with strong red-violet overtones, kind of like a plummy take on a Munsell purple, a garnet-like shade that's difficult to describe but immediately recognizable as purple. One of the first things you notice about this polish in the bottle are copious blue microflakes interspersed with tiny green microglitters, which have have an almost psychedelic quality against the bold purple base color. Their appearance on the nail is more subtle and scattered but no less delightful, tiny gleaming bursts of blue and green as the light catches them. Abundant holographic pigment gives the purple base a finely-grained visual texture and a heathery quality, nuancing it with hues of red-violet, violet and plum in ambient light. In the sun, there's a slightly dispersed but super sparkly linear prismatic flare predominated by arcs of azure and bright red.
Application was fantastic. The consistency of What a Million Filaments is fluid and creamy with a medium viscosity and a plush, even, self-leveling glide over the nail that is easy to control. I experienced a tiny bit of tumbling on the part of the components, but no stacking or stickups. Pigmentation is very good to excellent -- I used two coats for these photos. Cleanup was surprisingly easy. What a Million Filaments dries naturally in good time to a shiny finish that is very slightly textured, easily smoothed with topcoat. Topcoat also accentuates the presence of the components.
Photos show two coats of What a Million Filaments over KBShimmer Love You Strong Time treatment and KBShimmer Fillin' Groovy basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer What a Million Filaments |
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer What a Million Filaments |
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer What a Million Filaments |
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer What a Million Filaments |
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer What a Million Filaments |
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer What a Million Filaments |
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer What a Million Filaments |
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer What a Million Filaments |
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| Lollipop Posse Lacquer What a Million Filaments |
This is a beautifully-composed polish and very Sylvia Plath, I think. The name comes from a line in her great 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus," and I feel that the boldly contrasting elements in the polish really do justice to the fierceness and electricity of that work. On the nail, it has a lush, plummy presence, richly colorful but not the least bit gaudy or overly flamboyant -- there's a certain confident, sophisticated sensibility to it that, to me, reflects very well upon the wearer. Love this!
xo,
Liz
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