Smokey Mountain Lacquers ~ Raging Hormones

Smokey Mountain Lacquers ~ Raging Hormones

Rusty dusty pink linear holo

So here’s another Smokey Mountain Lacquer I received in a swap. It’s described as a cherry red linear holo but seriously, I can’t see that. To me it’s rusty dusty pink-ish. We can agree that it’s linear holographic though, haha!

Anyway, the formula is good and the polish is easy to work with. I used my regular basecoat and that works just great – no need to use aqua basecoat under this polish. It took two coats to make it opaque and the drying time is good.

Here’s two coats and no topcoat – taken with flash:

And another one:

Here is a lightbox picture. Not cherry red, is it?

I dabbed a bit of glitter on one side of each nail. I used Darling Diva’s Caliente, which is a red multisized and multishaped glitter that I got in a grab bag. When that was dry I applied a layer of Essence’s Gel Look topcoat, and here’s my final mani:

I quite like the effect of the glitter on one fourth of the nail like this.

The mandatory lightbox picture:

When I receive a bunch of polishes in the mail I tend to use the one I like the least first and then work my way through them and save the nicest one til last. I’ve done that too in this case. I do like Raging Hormones, but it’s not my favourite of the bunch – perhaps because I expected an actual cherry red. It’s nice though, no criticism from me. Do you like this? And do you see it as a cherry red?

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Jelly, linear holo

Overall impression: I feel like I’m colour blind at the moment, when polishes are described totally different than what I see them like. It’s still a good quality polish though.

Buy again: No