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| Liquid Sky Lacquer Fat Tuesday over Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
I'm a little ahead of myself here for the benefit of getting the above photo to show up on Facebook as the representative image of this post with the least amount of finagling from me. Facebook, why can't we be friends? Ok, let's take a better look the polishes that make up this combo.
Mismas was released by indie polish maker Rescue Beauty Lounge as part of the Fall 2009 Blogger Created collection in September 2009. Ji, the owner and creative force behind RBL, created this polish in concert with and named it for celebrated polish blogger Michelle Mismas of All Lacquered Up. If you want to read Michelle's post about working with Ji on Mismas, you can find it here. It's a wonderfully-pigmented medium-dark purple, a little more saturated and blue-leaning than your typical grape purple. It's a rich color with an intensely creamy quality and an intrinsic vibrancy.
Application was fantastic, Mismas has an outstanding formula. The consistency is fluid and creamy and light, with a wonderful balance of fluidity and viscosity for painting. This polish goes on with a silky smooth glide over the nail and possesses excellent self-leveling properties. Pigmentation is also excellent: this is a true one-coater but I used two for this manicure to finesse some lines left wanting after the first coat. As with any polish this pigmented, care must be taken during cleanup to avoid pigment travel but a thorough job leaves no residual staining. Mismas dries naturally in very good time to an impeccably glossy finish. So nice!
Photos show two coats of Mismas over basecoat with a slightly bubbly topcoat of Seche Vite. My photos display a little more blue to this shade than it appears in person, partly due to the extremely overcast light but still a frustrating outcome that's not uncommon when photographing purples.
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| Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
Fat Tuesday is a recent release by indie polish maker Liquid Sky Lacquer for this year's Mardi Gras. A glitter topper, it has abundant variously sized hex glitters in light and medium purple, light and medium green and holographic gold in a transparent suspension base. I applied one coat of Fat Tuesday with my patented (NOT!) plosh and spread technique over the Mismas manicure above. Application was fairly smooth. The consistency is fluid with little to no stickiness. Glitter payoff is great with a perfect range of glitters per brushful that are easily dispersed over the nail. I was very proud that I didn't overdo my application of this topper because I'm usually a bit heavyhanded with the glitter. Not this time! I feel like I finally got it just right.
Photos show about one and a half coats of Fat Tuesday over the above manicure with a smoothing layer of Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food followed by a topcoat of Seche Vite.
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| Liquid Sky Lacquer Fat Tuesday over Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Liquid Sky Lacquer Fat Tuesday over Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Liquid Sky Lacquer Fat Tuesday over Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Liquid Sky Lacquer Fat Tuesday over Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Liquid Sky Lacquer Fat Tuesday over Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Liquid Sky Lacquer Fat Tuesday over Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Liquid Sky Lacquer Fat Tuesday over Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Liquid Sky Lacquer Fat Tuesday over Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Liquid Sky Lacquer Fat Tuesday over Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Liquid Sky Lacquer Fat Tuesday over Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Liquid Sky Lacquer Fat Tuesday over Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Liquid Sky Lacquer Fat Tuesday over Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
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| Liquid Sky Lacquer Fat Tuesday over Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas |
I'm so happy with how this turned out! It's sparkly in an even and balanced way, I think -- so unusual for one of my glitter manicures. The holographic gold glitters are especially eye-catching, as they should be, and I was particularly enamoured with the sparkle that showed up under the lights in my gym. Polish always looks great under those lights but this is the first time I'd worn glitter on my nails since starting to work out there. I'm sure I cut an impressive figure, standing there amongst the machines and sweaty souls hard at work, staring at my nails. AS IF!
Again, Happy Mardi Gras to you, may your slice of king cake have a baby in it and laissez les bons temps rouler!
love,
Liz
