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I finally decided to wear my thermal polish from Eighty4. I am completely amazed at the shifting in color of this polish. I own 8 thermals including this one and nothing comes even close to how this polish behaves. I didn't go back and buy any more even after I swatched this on a nail wheel or put it on one finger because I thought the polishes available were too close to what I already had in terms of color. I should have anyway. I am dying to see if the others behave the same way. This polish is so strange. It's like nothing else I have period. I chose it because of that reason and it did not disappoint. It's colors shift from super almost neon yellow when hot to an almost orange red when cold. When I say hot, I mean scalding, you can barely put your fingers under water hot and cold being really freezing. There are stages in between of course which is far more normal when doing every day tasks. The typical warm phase is more of a true yellow and the cold is a bright traditional orange. This polish phases every shade and combination in between. It's amazing. It's got a scattered holographic effect as well but it isn't so over the top that the polish looks tacky. It's very subtle and can really only been seen under direct light. I prefer the holo with the orange shade as opposed to the yellow but it's a neat effect. The one thing that completely blew my mind with this polish was the effect it gives because of how incredibly sensitive the temperate effects are. What do I mean? Normally for me with really long nails the polish will be the warm shade on the nail bed and the tips that extend out will be the cold shade. It's pretty standard. What I found with this is that my hands were running a little colder in my office due to the A/C today. I had my hand clenched in my fist and when I uncurled my hand I was shocked to see the tips of my nails from touching the palms of my hands had turned the warmer shade but my nail beds stayed cold. Say what!!! It reversed what I am used to seeing with thermals. I couldn't believe my own eyes. If my nails were warm like they were when I woke up and I grabbed an ice cold drink they would do the normal warm to cold transition but this was incredible. At the same time I find this all so awesome, it's a bit annoying because there were many times they are a sort of in between mix and they look bad. The yellow with a slight orange tint looks gross like my fingers are diseased.
Overall, I am glad I got it. It's weird which I love. I plan on trying to put white tips on eventually maybe next Halloween to make it actually look like candy corn! I will put my pics in spoiler form as there are A LOT coming your way!!! I had to eventually stop photographing it. There is literally no way I could capture it in all it's glory.
There were 2 issues I did have with this I forgot about until I was going to crop my photos. First is that it's definitely gritty and needs a top coat. This isn't necessarily a terrible issue but it dries almost matte and was thirsty. I used 2 coats of Out the Door top coat. My real issue was apparently there was a build of around the neck of the polish which I expect given my vast experience with bottles but this was I didn't realize was there and when I pulled the cap off to start painting it flaked off (most I have to remove) and went into the bottle. I dug out what I could but what happened is a few of the pieces chunked off and got onto the nail. I thought I had gotten them all off until I noticed the middle finger on my left hand has a huge one. I just have to be more careful next time. It probably deposited on 7 of the nails I painted but I got it off all but one.
Do not attempt to adjust your screens!!
I tried to get how neon this is and my camera refused to capture it correctly. This is the closest I got.
Cool nails with warmish tips and this is a great shot of the holo.
Here is how it looks when not all the fingers are the same shade. Sorry for the dry cuticles I don't normally photograph this hand (although I did 2 days in a row)
I love this transition above. I wish it did that all the time. This is after getting the hands cold under water then drying them and waiting about 3 minutes.
Hot water
cold with flash
warm with flash. I like how pretty this is too.
Great swatches!
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