Showing posts with label Holographic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holographic. Show all posts

Thursday, December 13, 2018

by Kitties26 on Thursday, December 13, 2018 Leave a Comment

Digital Dozen does Holo - Day 4

For day four, I've moved onto the fine holo powder burnished into my nails.  Let me just say this took bloody ages to do, and the outcome is less than stellar! How about we called this, #WTFWasIThinkingThursday! But it's still better than tomorrow's fail look for you to look forward to!

I wish I had taken photos of this in direct sunlight, because it certainly looked better than these photos show.  I'm gonna stop now, otherwise I'm just going to continue to bag myself out, and I don't like doing that.  Let's all just focus of the pretty holo flame.






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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

by Kitties26 on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 1 comment

Digital Dozen does Holo - Day 3

Look, look, I did a double rainbow thing. First a gradient and then holo rainbows too! I'm loving this look so much, cause it's such 'me' nail art.

I recently grabbed a whole bunch of the JOSS creme polishes during their sale, I also think I bought the last of their stock of "Will Not", which is my absolute favorite white creme polish cause it's perfect in just one coat. I got them for about $4 each but these shades are now only $1.95 over on the Nail Super Store website.  For this gradient I used:
  • Red - Out of control
  • Orange - Space Shuttle Orange
  • Yellow - Yellow by Van Gogh
  • Blue - It's Blue. Period.
  • Green - Viridian Green
  • Pink - Fandango Pink

I then applied some nail foils and a thin coat of Orly bonder - which is decent sticky base coat that burnished powders seem to stick to quite well.  Finally, I burnished in some holo power and peeled the vinyls off.






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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

by Kitties26 on Tuesday, December 11, 2018 2 comments

Digital Dozen does Holo - Day 2

It's day two of holo week for the Digital Dozen and I have some blindingly holo nails.  I'm trying to use different holo finishes for all the nail art this week, holo polishes, rub in powders, scattered holo, and maybe even holo foils if I can get the new bottle of foil glue I bought to work for me.  

Today it's the scattered holo powered that I have burnished into a black base.  I then stamped a circular design on top, which sadly isn't centered on all my nails despite using a clear stamping. I really must be out of stamping practice at the moment.






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Monday, December 10, 2018

by Kitties26 on Monday, December 10, 2018 1 comment

Digital Dozen does Holo - Day 1

So starts another Digital Dozen week, and finally another series of blog posts from me.  Also, in case anyone is wonder what happened to me doing the 31 Day Challenge during November, well yeah, life happened and clearly I didn't get around to it.  As it happens I am still working my way through the 31 Day Challenge prompts, I'm up to the Metallic prompt I think.  I will eventually post them all, but at the moment I'm just enjoying wearing all the nail art for at least a few days, rather than having to take off each design at the end of a single day.  Clearly I'm not going to get the entire challenge done before the end of 2018, but I do hope to start it before the end of the year.

Now onto today's nails.  I wore these last week on the 3rd of December, which was my Birthday. In classic 'me' style I went with a gold holo.  I added some art deco black stamping, and voila I was done.  The holo polish is actually just Lacquistry Amazeballz Extra fine with some holo powder rubbed in.


Now look at this beautiful holo stainless steel cup I got for my birthday. This is the gold one. I also got one called Merlot, White and Charcoal.  They are so stunning in the sunlight and perfect for us to use outside.  They also work great at insulating the drink to keep it at whatever temperature you need it, be it nice and cold or nice and warm.






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Monday, January 8, 2018

by Kitties26 on Monday, January 08, 2018 5 comments

Digital Dozen does All that Glitters

It's another Digital Dozen week already, and I really thought I had another week up my sleeve before it started, so I'm afraid to say that I'm starting the new year chasing my tail from the beginning.  The upside is that I had already painted these nails and wore them whilst I was away in Queensland before Christmas, and I'm the queen of taking shortcuts!

This mani also provided me with a new found favourite product. The Dance Legend Binary polishes.  I've swatched various Binary shades before, but this was the first real time I put them to a wear test.  I did a gradient base of two Bi shades. Lilia (the pink) and Lisa (the blue). On their own they are both amazing polishes, smooth and gloss to apply and great pigmentation.  

Cause a regular gradient just wasn't going to cut it two weeks before Christmas, I had to add some bling. So I burnished in some of the holo flake powder.  There are bunches of places you can get this stuff now.  I got my little baggie from Spectraflair4U early last year I think, and it's still only $6 USD a gram.  After that was rubbed in I applied a coat of the Dance Legend Binary top coat.

Did this last on my nails. Well let me tell you that this would have survived a nuclear explosion I think.  I gave my nails some pretty harsh treatment whilst away. We visited the Gold Coast theme parks for 7 days straight, including full days at Wet n Wild. At the end of it I only had a little bit of tip wear.  

I've actually started using the Binary top coat as my go-to top coat for the last month instead of Seche Vite, which is really quite shocking for me, cause I'm a Seche Vite girl through and through. Sure, the Binary top coat doesn't dry quite as quick as Seche, but I sure can't beat the staying power when I want my mani to last for several days. 








Dance Legend polishes provided for consideration.
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Sunday, January 31, 2016

by Kitties26 on Sunday, January 31, 2016 2 comments

Nfu Oh 61 over Lacquistry Amazeballz extra fine

Sometimes I just feel like wearing something extra shiny and metallic, and this combo really satisfied that desire.  This was blindingly holo and metallic in the sun and still metallic in the shade too which was nice, because usually these ultra strong holos can look pretty dull in the shade.

This is one coat of Lacquistry Amazeballz extra fine and then one coat of Nfu Oh 61.  This is the original version of Nfu Oh 61, not the re-released one, which was much less holo.  In fact, in my swatch stick comparisons of all my holos, my friends and I have been unable to determine the difference between origianl Nfu Oh 61 and Chanel Holographic.  Which is awesome, cause now I don't feel like I need to drop $300 on the Chanel!




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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

by Kitties26 on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 8 comments

Burnt Ambition with advanced stamping

Last week I did a blue and white gradient mani with some advanced stamping on top.  I received lots of requests to a tutorial so I created another version of the mani and filmed it as I did it.

For my base I did a holo gradient using two new polishes, Colors by Llrowe Burnt Sugar and Blonde Ambition.  The brown stamping polish was actually a colour I mixed up using some of my Mundo de Unas polishes.  The MdU polishes mix perfectly, so in reality you really only need black, white and the three primary colours.  I made this brown shade by mixing red and green and then a tiny dot of black to darken it up.  I filled in the flowers using OPI Don't Pretzel by Buttons.





Here is my 15 second Instagram tutorial on how I did the advanced stamping flowers.  I used my new set of Messy Mansion Stamper heads which made the process so quick and easy.

Here are the individual swatches of the two polishes I used for the holo gradient.  This first one is Colors by Llarowe Blonde Ambition.  Its a stunning golden beige colour with a fantastically strong holo flame.  I saw this polish over at Fingers Polish Mania and I had to buy it.  Luckily for me there was a restock that next weekend and I managed to pick up my first Colors by Llarowe.  Based on these two polishes, I'm very happy and impressed with the polishes.  There is definitely an Aussie indie feel to them, and I suspect she sources her bottles and mani ingredients through the same Aussie distributor.






Color by Llarowe Burnt Sugar is a delicious chocolate brown holographic polish.  The holo flame isn't as strong as in Blonde Ambition, but it's still very visible.  This is a lovely rich shade of brown and it's the sort of brown polish that just makes you fall in love with browns.





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Sunday, October 28, 2012

by Kitties26 on Sunday, October 28, 2012 6 comments

FNUG Fantastica and a GIVEAWAY!

I was recently contacted by the very generous Annette from Shoppe Eclecticco in Singapore, asking if I would like to try a few of the polishes she stocked in her store.  To tell you the truth, I didn't actually know about her store, so when I checked it out I was super impressed with all the different brands that she carries. 

She carries lots of international brands, such as Layla, Barry M, HITS, Jade, Nfu Oh, Man Glaze and FNUG as well a big selection of Indie, or as they are called on their site 'Artisanal' polishes.  I love sites like this because you can get a great variety of polishes from different brands, and not have to pay separate shipping costs from various different suppliers.

One of the polishes that I was sent to try was FNUG Fantastica. Anyone that is a holo whore *hands up* is going to know about the amazingness that are the FNUG holographic polishes.

Fantastica is a very pale green linear holographic.  It has excellent coverage and can nearly be worn just at one coat.  For these photos I have two coats with no top coat.   I'll let the pictures do the talking on this one!







I did a comparison with my other pale green linear holographic polishes, Nfu Oh 66 and Layla Jade Groove.  My bottle of Nfu Oh 66 is several years old and from the 'original' batch which was the most holographic.  The base colour of all these polishes is almost identical, but the linear effect is slightly different.  Each of these shows two coats with no top coat.


Now for the giveaway part.  As I said at the top of my post, the very generous Annette from Shoppe Eclecticco is sponsoring three prizes in this giveaway, as such we are asking you to follow Shoppe Eclecticco on Facebook to enter.  You can also get additional entries for following Shoppe Eclecticco on Twitter, Instagram or signing up to their newsletter.

You don't have to be a follower of More Nail Polish to enter the giveaway, but I will be giving away a bottle of Picture Polish Kryptonite to one lucky follower, so starting following (if you don't already) if you want to win that prize.

It is open internationally and closes in two weeks time (11 November 2012)

There are three prizes available from Shoppe Eclecticco for this giveaway.
  • One for my Australia/New Zealand readers,
  • One for my Asian readers and
  • One for my readers elsewhere in the world.
Following the drawing of the first three winners, a final draw will be held to determine the winner of the bottle of Picture Polish Kryptonite.  

Thanks to Annette from Shoppe Eclecticco for providing these prizes.

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Polish provided for review.
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Thursday, October 18, 2012

by Kitties26 on Thursday, October 18, 2012 12 comments

Jade Fascinio Violeta

I just checked the 'Find my iphone' app cause I couldn't find my ipad. There it is - the little dot showing it must still be sitting on my desk at work. Damn it! Now I'm going to be about 200 blog posts behind on Feedler tomorrow (and I wont even mention the stupid dragons I was wont be able to try breed tonight). Bugger.  I will just have to play with polish instead.

We've had lots of sunshine here lately, I can certainly feel summer on the way and soon the pool out back will be warm enough to swim in.  Sunshine = holographic polish, so I went through my significant pile of untrieds and selected this stunning holo.

Jade Fasicinio Violeta.  Bright squishy purple jelly holo.  Completely different to the finish to the Layla holos, and so unbelievably easy to apply. No special base required and no issues using fast drying top coats.  Those Brazilians really know how to make a holo polish.





I still have several Jade polishes that were sent to me by the wonderful Rafa at Nails Ink. *waves*  Now that the warmer weather in here, I know I will be wearing these Brazilian polish quite a bit.

Which is your favourite Jade holo shade?
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