Here are pictures of it finished with six coats of Shellac. It looks even better in real life since the photography makes the finish look thicker, wetter, and more sparkly.
Zinsser did a good job on this color. It stands to reason, with the resources of Rustoleum, that there would have been an expensive effort with numerous focus groups involved. A successful, mass market, color has to hook into something deep in the subconscious.
Like every man who was once young and sure he would sail through the South Pacific and around the world, I have seen that color in my mind. An opened coconut held in slim tapered fingers, behind the coconut, a bare breast; above the breast, a face with a smile that promises everything; behind the face, the sun setting over sea and islands that hold endless possibilities for the coming day and years. This Shellac is the color of that breast.
When I am punching into the cold, gray seas off Newfoundland, old and alone, hunkered down against the spray in my foul weather gear, I’m going to look at that color and smile because it will remind me that I’ve learned the true meaning of life.