Rescue Beauty Lounge has created seven new shades of polish for their Italian Summer Collection. This collection was inspired by Ji Baek’s travels to Italy, you can read about the inspiration behind each shade on the Rescue Beauty Lounge Blog. The collection will be available for purchase during a 48 hour pre-sale period starting Monday August 11th which you can have access to by signing up for her newsletter at Rescue Beauty Lounge. I was thrilled (floored really) that they sent me shades for review. The seven shades will be $20 each, the colors include:
- Bicicletta a pale pink polish has micro glitters
- Gondoliere a vibrant orange-based opaque glossy red nail polish
- Oliveto a perfect olive green that reflects the flash of rainbow and purple and periwinkle shimmers
- Motorini a moodier, darker sister of the famed and playful Aqua Lily (which I missed out on), with a medium base of blue/aqua has a flash of surging fuchsia shimmer
- Meow Meow is a dark hunter green shows off a finely milled glitter
- Melanzane is a complex mix of blue, purple, silver and violet glitters
I’ve been a long-time fan of Rescue Beauty Lounge polishes. They have super smooth application with excellent pigment and wear time. Their Top Coat is among my favorites for adding a lush cushy shine and extending polish wear. More details and thoughts on my personal nail and hand care essentials here from May earlier this year.
Close ups and thoughts of each shade below. First up is Motorini which is my favorite color in the whole collection. I’m still bummed I missed out on Aqua Lily and this looks like a beautiful darker alternative to it. It has a gorgeous teal base with the prettiest iridescent shimmer infused throughout. The shimmer is very fine and shows up on the nail in a sophisticated way. This is the perfect aqua teal mix. It applied smoothly with two coats.
Bicicletta is a pale lilac with complex lavender and silver glitters. It has a slightly transparent base giving it a jelly-like finish with two coats. I prefer it with three coats for fuller coverage. The application is very smooth with this shade as well. I love that it’s streak-free and that brush strokes are not visible.
Gondoliere is a stunning vibrant red with warm tones. In my mind Rescue Beauty Lounge and Chanel have the best reds. No matter how similar each new release is, they both somehow manage to create a more perfect red. This one has full coverage and is very opaque with two coats.
Gelato Al Cioccolato is a soft chocolate brown cream with a slight hint of mauve which prevents it from looking yellow as some browns can look. It’s a polished neutral tan. It’s shown with two coats as well.
Oliveto is a unique green olive that has an amazing teal, blue, and violet pearly shimmer mixed throughout. It makes for a very interesting nail color unlike any other olive green shade I’ve tested. I hope RBL adds more shimmer like this to other polishes because it’s simply amazing. Oliveto applied with smooth full coverage with two coats.
Meow Meow is a forest-green glitter. I applied it with 3 coats to cover the nail entirely but it can also be used with 1-2 coats layered over other colors. If you’re a fan of glitter polishes you will really like this one, it’s quite striking. Glitter polish isn’t really my thing and it’s such a pain to remove that I try to avoid it.
Melanzane is another glitter polish. The mix of sparkle in this one is extraordinary. It has blue, violet, purple, indigo, and silver. I’m not the best at applying glitter polishes, especially near the cuticles, I have a hard time getting any glitter to apply with a sharp clean edge. I tend to get glitter everywhere when I apply it. This is a lovely color but for me a bit too glitzy for everyday.
The Rescue Beauty Lounge Italian Summer collection is stunning. I love that as with all of Ji Baek’s polishes, each shade has a special meaning behind it’s creation. My top three picks are Motorini (teal) Bicicletta (lilac sparkle) and Gondoliere (red).
For more swatches, be sure to check out these nail polish blogs: Scrangie, Polish Police (she has awesome comparisons), Manicurator, Nail and Noms, Fashion Polish and Makeup Withdrawl.
Be sure to sign up for the newsletter on Rescue Beauty Lounge for the latest updates on new releases and sales. You will receive an exclusive pre-sale link to shop the collection early on Monday August 11th.
This post contains samples sent for review consideration. For more information refer to my Disclosures.