Gold Pearl

MAC Gold Pearl Nail Lacquer ($12.00 for 0.34 fl. oz.) is described as "sheer gold pearl transformer." It's a sheer, gold-shimmered polish with a warm, yellow-tinged base and fine, gold pearl shimmer. It makes nails look almost metallic, because the shimmer is quite fine and creates "threads" of shimmer that are somewhat visible (depends on the angle). The consistency is slightly thick but manageable during application. I tried one coat over Impassioned, which is a bright coral, and it warmed it up, lightened the color, and added shimmer. The way the two worked together was nice--it didn't look like an overlay of shimmer, it was as if the two were really one, which is a great effect. It's not much of a duochrome, as it is just gold and golder, though it almost looks a bit like a duochrome in the bottle.