#ManiMonday - Frenzy Polish ~ Fireside Therapy

Happy Mani Monday!!! Today’s polish pick is called “Fireside Therapy” from the indie brand Frenzy Polish. Fireside is a good way to describe this polish. The base is a rather basic brown, just like firewood. However it’s anything but an ordinary polish! The little flecks of glitter seem to sparkle all shades of fire – red, orange, gold, amber and even a touch of bluish-green. It actually almost glows! The glitter bits are mostly small, but there are a few mid-size hexagonal glitters here and there. I can’t tell what color they are because of the brown base, but it’s definitely holographic. It’s a really unusual glitter polish in that it’s kind of subtle despite all the sparkling awesomeness in it. In a way it’s kind of ugly, but it’s beautiful in its ugliness…if that makes sense. J Just the way it subtly sparkles and reflects all kinds of fiery hues makes it really lovely to look at.

As for application, the first coat made me nervous! It was quite patchy and it’s a really thick formula – undoubtedly thanks to all the various glitters. There was no evening out the patches, so I hoped for the best with a second coat. Fortunately that worked like a charm! It’s perfectly even and covers well in two coats and it dries to a slightly matte finish. I added the Butter London Hardwear Top Coat…and then I added a second coat of the Top Coat because the polish being as textured as it is just kind of absorbed the first coat, making it a bit dull again. Perfect! Granted, there’s a lot of polish on my nails and it will probably take a small army of cotton and 12 bottles of polish remover to take it off, but it looks pretty. J