Four collections
A collection here means a shared base and a shared way of behaving on the nail. Shades move between collections rarely and only when a reformulation changes how they wear.
Duskfall
Muted violets, storm blues and a grey-rose that reads differently at every hour. The colours we mix most often in the winter half of the year.
Duskfall began as a set of three greys mixed for the studio's own use in 2018 and grew into the range we reorder most. Every shade is opaque in two coats, and the two shimmers carry a fine violet flake that only shows in daylight.
- Nine O'Clock Lilac — crème
- Slate Plum — crème
- Rainshadow — shimmer
- Moth Wing — crème
- Hollow Blue — crème
- Late Fig — shimmer
Sugarveil
Soft milk-tones and pastels with enough pigment to cover in two coats, which is unusual for colours this pale.
Pale colours are the hardest thing we make. Without enough pigment they streak; with too much they turn chalky and drag. Sugarveil went through eleven trial batches before we were willing to pour it.
- Milk Bottle — sheer crème
- Peach Static — crème
- Meadow Foam — crème
- Butter Note — crème
- Cloudwater — sheer
Opal Hours
Multichrome and duochrome pigments that shift through two or three tones as your hand moves.
These use a synthetic borosilicate pigment suspended in a clear tinted base. They are the slowest colours to fill because the pigment settles quickly and each bottle has to be rolled and topped by hand.
- Opal Hour — multichrome
- Tidal Glass — multichrome
- Cinder Rose — duochrome
- Northlight — duochrome
- Ember Shift — multichrome
Static Sugar
Glitter and flake mixes in a clear or tinted suspension base, made to sit flat under one coat of top coat.
Glitter is a suspension problem, not a colour problem. Our base holds hex and shard glitter without the sinking you get in thin formulas, so the last bottle of a batch pours the same as the first.
- Sugar Static — glitter
- Confetti Hour — glitter
- Pale Comet — glitter
- Sherbet Grain — glitter
- Nightfleck — glitter
Repeats, and what happens when a shade is retired
A shade stays in the range as long as its pigment is available in the quantities we can use. When a supplier discontinues a flake we do not substitute quietly: the shade is marked as a final pour on the index, sells through, and is not reissued under the same name.
Shade index