145-147 Finishing Up the Halo Hues!

Hello, I'm back!  Hopefully someone out there missed me ^^;;  I had a good spring break.  I didn't go anywhere special; I just went home.  And once I was home, I was just really lazy and didn't get anything done really...but that's always good once in a while!  

Anyways, today I'm going to wrap up the last of the Halo Hues.  Not to say that I don't like holos (I really do love the rainbow-riffic awesome shinies), but I do want to finish them up so I can show you guys something different, like what I've actually been wearing lately.

First up is Cloud Nine, a pastel pink holo.  The holo on this was pretty strong I believe.  Shown in the pictures is 3 coats.  Can't really say this one was the most interesting for me, as I'm not really a pink girl, but it sure is pretty.

Next is Harp On It, your quintessential silver holo.  I actually didn't have a very good silver holo in my collection up until this point, so it is a nice addition :)  I believe this is 3 coats, but you could probably get away with less with more careful application

Finally, to wrap things up, we have Halographic, a saturated magenta holo.  I feel like this one is similar to Miss Bliss, so perhaps I will do a comparison later.  This is two coats of Halographic.

Overall, I am really impressed with Color Club's holos.  They've definitely taken a look at what's popular in the nail-blogosphere and ran with it.  They've given us a good variety of color with a healthy amount of rainbows.  The formulas of each of the Halo Hues individually were good, but noticeably better with the 2013 polishes in terms of opacity and color variety.

That's it with the Halo Hues, guys!  Hold tight for some new, different things coming up soon!  Until then :)

66. Color Club - Worth the Risque

I wore Worth the Risque last week when it was sunny out.  Sunny weather is great for wearing holos!  You get an eyeful of rainbows with every glimpse of you nails.  This is a decently strong silver holo.  It's probably not as strong as anything from the China Glaze OMG collection, but Worth the Risque is much cheaper than those anyways.  I'll settle for this; I'm not quite ready to part with that much money on one bottle of polish.  I also suspect that this polish will be good for stamping.

Shown is 2 coats.  The formula was a great consistency and very easy to control.  This is also a relatively easy holo, as there was no dragging like other holos may be prone to (without a special base coat).

My pictures really do this polish no justice; in real life, there is much more "wham-in-your-face-rainbows." I have many more pics after the jump, if you want some eye candy.

59, 60, 61. - Glitter Spam!

I'm too lazy to make multiple posts for polishes that I'm (unfortunately) going to purge, so here's a bit of spam.  All of these polishes are very sparsely distributed glitters, and that just doesn't sit very well with me.  These are all too sparse to be used as a layering polish or on its own.  All of these swatches are three coats each; please excuse the yellow nails :X

First up is Wet N' Wild's Party of Five Glitters.  I guess it's supposed to be a dupe of Deborah Lippmann's Happy Birthday, but the WNW can't even compare.  It's very sparsely distributed, and the glitter tends to settle at the bottom of the bottle.  No bueno.  It takes a lot of dabbing to place the glitters, and the formula's a bit runny.  There are larger silver, purple, and light blue hex glitters, and smaller green and red hex glitter in a cloudy, colorless base.

See the settling?! :C

Next is NYC's Starry Silver Glitter.  This one actually has pretty decent coverage, I just can't think of any time where I would want this many coats as a layering polish or this sparse of a glitter on its own.  There are small silver holo glitters, with some larger lavender and blue hex glitters suspended in a clear base.   This polish also settles a bit, but not nearly as bad as Party of Five Glitters.

Holo glitters!

Lastly, I have Confetti's Tinsel, silver holo glitter in a cloudy, colorless base.  In the bottle, it looks like it would be a shiny disco ball of a party, but on the nails, it disappoints.  This is disappointingly sparse, and I have so many better silver holo glitters.  So into the swap bin it goes.

Nail Art: Valentine's Mani

So this was my mani from Valentine's day.  Waaaaaay old, I know; but I realized that I never posted any pictures of it, except on Facebook.  So here it is!

 More after the jump!

29. OPI - Fresh Frog of Bel Air

Happy St. Patty's everyone!  Today, I'm wearing Fresh Frog of Bel Air from OPI's Muppet's collection.  Fresh Frog of Bel Air looks like Slytherin in a bottle.  So pretty!  I was really hoping that it would look just the same on the nail as in the bottle, but sadly, it didn't.  When I first saw swatches of this polish, most said they put on 2 coats to achieve a decent opacity, but I took 4 coats to reach this level of opacity, which is disappointing.  And the polish is still not as opaque on the nail as it looks in the bottle.  Don't get me wrong, this is still a beautiful polish, it's just that I wish it had a little more coverage.

This picture's a little more true to color, while the next one shows a little more of the glitters themselves.

This is probably best used as a layering polish.  Shown is 4 coats of Fresh Frog with 2 coats of Poshe on top.  Right now the polish feels smooth, but I bet this polish is a glitter eater and may need another coat of Poshe to make it completely smooth when dry.

19. Essence - Can't Cheat On Me!

Can't Cheat On Me is a very subtle silver scattered holo.  These pictures don't show the holo at all, which is disappointing, but once in the sun, the holo particles come out and play.  It looks very delicate, and not so in-your-face.

Lots of pictures because it's so pretty!  These pictures really don't compare to how it looks in the sunlight!  If you look closely, you can see hints of the rainbow that threaten to break loose :)

This is three coats of Can't Cheat On Me with no topcoat.  I have a feeling that Seche Vite would kill the little bit of holo that is in this polish.  But OMG, this polish took a long time to dry without fast-dry topcoat.   I managed to smudge every single one of my fingers.  I wore this as a mani, and it still felt rubbery and indent-able even after 2 days.  I was disappointed, considering that the Color & Go polishes are usually pretty fast drying.

10. Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - 13 Celeb City

Celeb City is a warm bright silver foil.  It's a pretty polish, just nothing extraordinary about it.  Very glittery and sparkly; definitely eye catching.  Application was fine, with the usual SH formula.  Pictured is two coats, but it could have used 3.  There was still some VNL.

Sorry about the ring finger.  Dented it right before I took the pictures -___-

5. Sally Hansen Nail Prisms - Diamond

I never noticed how repetitive the SH nail polish names are. So here's Diamond, a silver linear holo. The holo effect is subtle in this on as well, nowhere nearly as IN YOUR FACE as the old OPI DS or China Glaze OMG collection, but it's there.  My god this polish was hard to photograph.  This polish is definitely more mezmerizing in real life than in the pictures taken by my merely average point-and-shoot camera.

The following pics have pretty good holo effect in them!  So pretty!

It doesn't seem like it's meant to be opaque. 2 coats got the polish to this opacity, and adding a 3rd coat seemed to make little difference in the coverage.  I didn't add topcoat, since I was afraid that it would dull the holo effect, like it did on Mandarin Garnet.  Application was smooth; no dragging or bald spots.  However, formula is a bit watery, something I've noticed with all SH polishes.  I'm learning to apply it neatly, but if you're not careful, you could easily get cuticle flooding.

I like this polish and I can't stop staring at my nails!  Definitely a keeper!  In the future, I'll probably layer it over a light grey or silver metallic polish.  On a side note, I love how the bottom of these bottles are weighted.  Good for a clumsy girl like me to avoid excess accidents.  However, the short, squat shape of the bottle makes it awkward to take pictures....