Showing posts with label Duochrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Duochrome. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

by Kitties26 on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 5 comments

The Polish Chrome Wars Part 8 - Multichrome edition

I have rubbed all sorts of things into my nails, and today I share with you the last of those things, the mutlichrome chromes.

There are some uber amazing looking multichrome chrome powders out there, and they come with equally uber amazing price tags.  I was mesmerized by the ones I saw on Simply Nailogical, Nails 21 Brand, but at 18.50Euro per colour, no thanks.  The Aora ones also look pretty amazing, but where to buy and how much.  I've also seen amazing results with duochrome powder from Didspade, but they no longer sell 1g samples, and their 5g samples are $35USD per colour. I nearly bought the SolarColorDust set of six mirror colours, but at $100 for the set I couldn't justify it. Glitter Unique sells Ultra Chrome Chameleon pigment for $11.50USD a gram but I don't know if that is the pigment that you rub in as all their photos are with it in polish. Australian shop The Nail Shop also stocks Chrome and Chameleon effect powders, and with the exception of the ones below, are the cheapest I've found at $12.65AUD a gram, the swatches and reviews sound very promising.

So what have I got here? I've go the cheap alternative.  The $1.99USD per colour version from the Born Pretty Store.  Let's jump right in and see what they look like. All these mulitchrome powders are shown over a black base of Dance Legend Glitter base, not gel.

#687 - Gold to green




#684 Teal to purple





#682 Purple to bronze




#681 Magenta to gold




#589 Gold to green to blue




#587 - Teal green to pink to purple




#585 - Gold to green




#583 - light blue to purple





I was pleasantly surprised with this chrome powders.  They did end up with a nice shiny multichrome finish after a good rubbing, but they do start out feeling a little gritty.  I'm not sure I can say they have that same smooth mirror look as the silver mirror powders I've been using.  These still have a slightly speckled sparkly appearance.  There are a few colours in this set that are very similar as well, where you can only tell the difference between them if you compared them side by side.

One thing I noticed was that these powders are all white or iridescent, with the exception of the first one (#687). The first gold one was also the one that provided me with the best mirror like finish. Other brands I've looked at, like Nails 21 and the pigments from Didspade and SolarColorDust, the actual powder is coloured.  So they are definitely a different thing.  Maybe I'll cave in a buy one of those other brands just so I can compare, but for now, these are pretty good for the price point.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

by Kitties26 on Tuesday, June 05, 2012 10 comments

Ozotic 737 duochrome

Wow, after such an epic last post, it's hard to come back with something else exciting.  Thanks so much everyone for you comments about my magnets, I'm so glad you found it helpful.

I'll get straight to today's nail stuff.  Today I have another of the Ozotic duochromes from the 700 series.  This is another duochrome that really changes depending whether you layer it over white or black.

In the bottle it looks like an iridescent pink polish, with a slightly milky shimmer to it.  The shimmer in this shifts from pink to orange/gold. This is two coats over a white base.

Over white, it's harder to see the gold shift, but it's there.

This polish is very sheer on it's own.  This is two coats and as you can see, you can see right through to my little white nail tips.  I feel a little naked just wearing this on it's own. I'm not really used to wearing such sheet polishes.

Finally, here it is over black.  It really transforms from a light summery polish into more of an Autumn/Winter polish, which is great because it means you can wear it all year round.


As usual with Ozotic polishes, the formula on this was just perfect.  Even though it has a very shimmery finish, it applies very smoothly and not streaky or frosty.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

by Kitties26 on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 14 comments

Ozotic 745 layered over black/white gradient

Last week I show you Ozotic 745 duochrome, which has two completely different looks depending on whether you layer it over black or over white.

Rebecca wondered what it would look like layered over a black and white gradient, and I thought it would be awesome to try, so here is the result.


Kinda weird and interesting at the same time.  Unfortunately I did get some bubbling on of few fingers, which made it a bit of a fail, but I was still glad to have tried it out.
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Monday, May 21, 2012

by Kitties26 on Monday, May 21, 2012 4 comments

Ozotic 743 duochrome (apparently)


Here is another pretty Ozotic that was sent to me for review.  This is Ozotic 743 from the duochrome range.

I absolutely love this colour, but I have to say I did really struggle to see the duochrome effect with this polish.  All the other Ozotic duochromes that I have tried have a very strong and obvious colour shift, but this one is very subtle *read as nearly non existent*.

Here is Ozotic 743 on its own, two coats. Nice opacity at two coats.




Next I tried it over black to see if it would bring out the duochrome colour shift any stronger.  Unfortunately it only made a teeny tiny difference.



The below photo was the closest I got to capturing the colour shift in this polish.  The aqua shimmer of the polish remains, but the base colour seems to shift a little darker blue. 


Finally, over white.








I seriously could not find any swatches of this polish online.  One or two bottle shots, but that was about it.  If you own this polish and have photos of it swatched, I'd love to see them.  Feel free to spam my comments with your links to photos.

This polish was provided to me for review.

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

by Kitties26 on Sunday, May 20, 2012 7 comments

Ozotic 745 a polish with two personalities

I've got a really cool duo-chome polish to show you today from Ozotic.  I swatched this last weekend before I broke several nails and I really love how this looks.  I can honesty say this polish really has two completely different personalities.

First up is the stunning pale pink look with a really fine but strong gold shimmer.  The gold shimmer makes the pink polish lean coral coloured and dispute it looking very sheer, it still has complete coverage of the nail in just two coats.

This is two coats of 745 on it's own.  Above with partial sun and below in the shade.

In the sun this polish really warms up and is a pink toned gold.  It's a really pretty gold, not too orange, and it suited my skin tone beautifully.

Next I layered one coat of 745 over a white base.  It's kind of similar to how it looks without a white base except in the shade the white base brings out the pink more.

In the sun, the white base seems to cool down the gold a little. So pretty.

Now here is the second personality of this polish.  If the above photos show it's light and pretty side, these photos show it's gritty and edgier side.  Layered over black you'd swear it was a completely different bottle of polish. The black base seems to complete hide or remove the pink tinge to this polish, and instead you get a cool, almost green toned gold polish.

This is two coats layered over a black base.

It is definitely a little frosty, and you can see brush strokes, but I really didn't care about them because it was such an amazing transformation.  Plus, it actually turns into such a pretty gold colour.  I love my gold polishes, and this has quite sneakily got up in there with some of my favourites.

I really love this over black, but surprisingly for me I also really love it over white and on it's own.  I actually wore it on it's own as a full mani and was quite surprised that I chose to do that, especially given that I'm not hugely into pink polishes.  But because of the strong gold undertones I really didn't feel like I was wearing pink.

This polish is part of the 700 series, which means it not one of the ones being discontinued. Ozotics are available directly from Picture Polish or through their network members in USA, Canada, UK, Brazil, The Netherlands, Pakistan, Singapore, France and Indonesia.
This polish was provided to me for review.
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