Rescue Beauty Lounge 'Aqua Lily'

Colors from the Rescue Beauty Lounge Fan Collection were the last things I purchased before my no-buy in late March (I actually pre-bought three of the polishes while I was in Tokyo for the Anime Fair.)  After seeing  the swatches of this collection my must-have changed from Cuprum (a supposed rich blue w/ copper shimmer that was actually some kind of weird blue metallic frost with little copper flecks?) to this color--and apparently, a lot of other people felt the same because it is now sold out.  However Ji Baek, the owner of Rescue Beauty Lounge, has announced that she will be re-releasing this color later this year with some other discontinued colors so if you missed out on it you should have an opportunity to buy it sometime in November/December.

Rescue Beauty Lounge 'Aqua Lily' is a bright aqua blue with a subtle fuchsia shimmer (similar to the one featured here).  The formula was quintessential RBL: easy to apply and nicely opaque in two medium coats.  RBL's can have issues with certain qdtc's, so this time I tried using Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat and it seems to be cooperating as the picture below is day 3 with no wrapping and I've some tipwear but no real chipping.  This would be a ho-hum color if the shimmer did not give it an interesting amount of depth.  I think that this color would be nice as jewelry.

Taken with flash.  Unfortunately, this is one of those colors that gives me lobster hands.  T-T  I've seen dupes of this using turquoise polish and CND Raspberry Shimmer.  While not as bright, I think SpaRitual 'Ebb & Flow' would be a good base.

Macro of the shimmer.

Now for the really bad news: the price of Rescue Beauty Lounge polishes increased from $18.00 US to $20.00 US permanently with this collection.  This is probably one of the last new RBL polishes I will be featuring on this blog unless a color comes out that completely wows me.  The colors are pretty but are they $20.00 worth of pretty?  We'll have to wait and see!

Rescue Beauty Lounge polishes can be purchased at the website for $20.  

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