Mandarin Garnet is a pink-toned red metallic polish with a very subtle scatted holo effect. It's really pretty and delicate-looking in the bottle. On the nail, it looks a lot more pink than in the bottle I think. These reds and pinks really aren't my favorite. Right after I finished these pictures, I immediately took the polish off :(
It's not a bad polish; in fact, the formula's pretty good. The following pics show 3 coats, topcoat only on the thumb and pointer finger. Topcoat dulls the holo effect to the point where there's no more, so the other 3 fingers have no topcoat. Mandarin Garnet is a lot more opaque than I thought it would be by looking at the bottle; one coat was halfway to opaque. There's still some VNL, but I feel like this polish would be better layered anyways. Application was pretty good, only some drag and bald spots on my right hand (since I suck at applying polish with my left hand).
The holo doesn't seem to show up at all in these pictures. I guess it's just too subtle. But look how sparkly the polish is!
I'm probably gonna be giving this one away too. I got this polish (along with 4 other bottles of SH Nail Prisms) at Ross. I was pretty happy to find them, especially since the whole line's been discontinued for a while. Mostly, I picked up the Nail Prisms because I thought they had extra bottles of my old favorite, Lapis Amethyst. However, I was disappointed because the color of Lapis Amethyst wasn't the same as the old bottle I had (and finished using a looooong time ago). However, the discovery that some of the Nail Prisms I bought were holo cheered me right up!
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