Happy Saturday! Today I’m going to spam you with a fiery holographic polish from Make Up Store.
This is the beautiful Britta in indirect light.
She becomes more and more beautiful in the right setting, for example if you throw some flash light at her.
What really fires her up is sunlight. It looks amazing how the rainbow emerges on my nails, when the sun hits it. I’m still fascinated by the effect, as I was when I was a child and we had slap-on-wristbands in a silvery holographic material.
Soooo you already know about my hat. It is pretty awesome, but in Vienna it is always so windy, especially in spring, that it is not a good idea to wear a hat. As a tribute to my hat, I made a lot of hat pictures, because I can’t wait to wear it all autumn. 
I am wearing Layla Red Taboo (a holo, which is substantially useless to wear if there’s absolutely no sun, but I find it super pretty none the less), and Layla Metallic Chrome. 
Metallic Chrome was absolutely horrible to apply. I buffed my nails before, wore no base coat, then tried it with base coat, ridge filler, you name it, I tried. It took me substantial patience and 4 tries before I got it on my nails. Once it is on your nails though it is a mirror. It is amazing. So worth all the application pain.
Also I got to play around with my dad’s camera, and it has all these absurd functions, like black and white pictures where only a part stays in color, and fisheye, and all kinds of other stuff that makes taking pictures really fun, even if you have no clue what you’re doing. 
Red Taboo is amazing once you see it in the sun. It doesn’t look red to me, but pink, and I really like the color. Metallic Chrome is from their Mirror Metallic Collection, and I have never before seen polish like this. The Mirror Metallics look more like nail appliqués, and I think they are all awesome, I mean, come on, they look like liquid metal on nails!
So far I have bought quite some Laylas, and received some in swaps also, and I haven’t been disappointed. Some of them are difficult to apply, yes, but heck they look cool! 
I’m wearing a blue sweater from GAP, scarf from FabIndia, t-shirt from H&M, jeans from WE and boots from Asos. 
Can you forgive a nail polish for horrible application if it is just so pretty?
Posted in How I wore it
Tagged asos, GAP, H&M, holographic, Layla, metallic, pink, silver, WE
Hi there! I know, I know, it is not really your weekly dose of holo. It’s mor eof an eventual holographic nail polish related post. Well, I try to keep it up again, thanks to the seasons, I have more opportunities to make nice pictures for you again.
color club Harp on it – your “standard” silver holographic nail polish. The color is silver, there’s no doubt. Plus you can see the rainbow effect, so it must be a holographic polish. I used 2 coats. The first picture is taken in the lightbox (indirect light).
Well. Your average silver holo looks your average silver holo on steroids if you see it in direct light.
See the awesome rainbow effect? I think this is the strongest silver holo to ever reach my tips. (Pictures were made with flash!)
What do you think?
I’ve had it with this weather! And I’ve had it to complain about it! Why can’t I have nothing to complain about? 
Anyhow. The weather explains the lack of me wearing holographic nailpolish, not that I wear it everyday, but it is fun to wear it in the sun. T. borrowed me her color club in beyond, which is an awesome charcoal (the closest a holo can get to black?) holographic polish.
Well, we have to make do with what we can! The above picture was taken out in daylight, but no direct sun. It’s still pretty awesome. Below I have some pictures for you that I took in the lightbox, with flash.
I must admit, this polish is awesome, and great fun to wear. I do love the look of black/dark grey holos! Just when I was trying to fix my hair (my hair-do usually dissolves randomly at the most unfortunate moments), the sun came out. So what does a good blogger do? Pretend this is a picture of my hair-do. I followed this tutorial [none] from this awesome person [no-one]. (and that is visible!)
The most beautiful thing is though, that the plants don’t all care if it is spring or winter. This bush in the background decided it was time to bloom, and so it did.
I’m wearing a pullover I bought last year (2011, not 2012), from WE, and I thought I would just wear it every now and then, because not exactly my style, but it is warm. Well, I’ve worn it every other week, and I like it more and more. The jeans are from WE too. I’m fairly certain I’m wearing some kind of t-shirt underneath, but as you don’t see it, it doesn’t matter that I forgot which one. Same goes for underwear and socks, in case you ever wondered.
These shoes were a sort-of-gift. I bought J. gloves, and he bought me shoes. It’s a bit more fun than as if I had bought myself shoes, and he would have bought himself gloves. It’s the little things. They are from Unisa (available at Humanic as far as I know, and most probably in a lot of other stores), 3 or 4 seasons back at least. In terms of make-up, the only “new” exciting think I’m wearing here is my lipgloss from Illamasqua in Belladonna. I’ve had it for a longer time, and I love it to bits. It stays on rather long, and it’s not sticky!
Do you have any idea how excited I was when J sent me a message saying a package from Russia arrived? I knew it had to be a PR package from El Corazon or Dance Legend. And it was from Dance Legend! I received a couple of beautiful polishes, but the one that excited me the most was (and this comes a surprise for me too!) this amazing purple holographic polish.
In case you were wondering, this is a picture heavy post….
Dance Legend polishes have numbers, this one is number 10 from the New Prism Collection. The bottles are rather big and hold 15 ml. Dance Legend is working on opening an online store, so keep up with their facebook page! The holos will be around 13 USD.
I wore this purple alone for a day, no topcoat, and then I decided to add dots with the green holographic polish from Dance Legend (number 13 I think? I don’t remember).
Dance Legend polishes have different caps for the various collections. Some caps are rubberized, some aren’t. The brush has thick bristles, that form a somewhat V-shape in the front. Imagine a Dior brush but then more V-shaped. It works really good for applying the polish. 
The holographic effect of the polishes is AMAZING. Most of my holographic polishes look just like regular polishes in the lightbox (thank you, indirect light!). These don’t. You can clearly see the rainbow in the picture above – even though it’s much fainter than in direct light.
This happens if you make a picture with flash. I feel the need to write: “Bam!”.
I wanted to add green dots, so this is what it looked like in the lightbox:
And because they are holographic polishes, they look 5027347824390123123745832894890x better in direct light. So I there’s the obligatory flash picture!
Somehow this amazingly awesome purple made me feel like purple all over, so I chose to embrace purple and wear all the purple clothing I own. That is, a t-shirt and a cardigan.
The cardigan is from H&M, the t-shirt was a gift from my brother and is from Uniqlo. The jeans are from WE, boots from Oysho (maybe I should clean them…).
In terms of formula, I was positively surprised by the Dance Legend holographics. The purple lasted two full days without topcoat without tipwear, then I was too excited to try out the other ones and decided to take it off.
In terms of Make-Up, I stuck to my beloved Inglot – I tried out a mascara from Illamasqua in blue, that I bought during their sale. The color is barely visible, and the amazing volume-enhancing effect that it promised is not visible either. First verdict: not impressed. The necklace is my tribute to Austrian hunting culture. My motto: if you don’t like with something, take it with humor.
The few sunny days this winter have to be made use of! Mostly I take walks and enjoy the sun, but other times I wear holographic nail polish.
This particular sunny day, I was fed up by neutral colors and decided to wear as much green nail polish as I could. So I put on sally hansen gentle blossom (thumb) color club Holiday Splendor over KIKO 391 (index finger), sonoma nail art mustard fields over KIKO297 (on middle finger), Nubar Reclaim (ring finger) and again KIKO 297 (pinkie).
Unfortunately, it was very windy, so the outfit-picture-taking process was a bit more difficult than usual.
As I wore all this green on my nails, I decided to opt for something tuquoise and then blue so I’d be ombre as a whole. My oants are from Uniqlo, t-shirt is Uniqlo too, the jacket (a gift from my aunt) is from Montego, which is sold at Peek&Cloppenburg, and the absolutely humongeous out of proportion 100% non recycled plastic ring is from H&M. The scarf was a gift from E and is from Cora Kemperman, my favorite Dutch designer next to Viktor & Rolf whom I can’t afford.
I loved this manicure a lot. I usually like everything to be in order, hence not every nail something else, but it was great to have this on for a fun Sunday!
Posted in How I wore it
Tagged color club, creme, glitter, green, holographic, holographic glitter, KIKO, Nubar, sally hansen, Sonoma Nail Art
Two polishes were standing on my desk, and I thought, wait! Aren’t those the same?! So I figured I’d show them to you.
China Glaze Ultamate Holiday (apparently an ULTA exclusive) and China Glaze Angel Wings from this year’s holiday collection are the exact same. I swatched them without topcoat, so you can see how matte and gritty both of them dry (2 layers of topcoat and all is good again).
In indirec lighting, in my lightbox. I don’t see any difference.
with flash: no difference. So, next time you don’t manage to find something that is a so-and-so exclusive, don’t give up hope, it might be released under a different name.
Another China Glaze from the Kaleidoskope Collection – Spin me round.
I’m not very fond of this color, it’s a beige/brown nude-tone that I don’t like very much. I used two coats.
Hope you enjoy the weekly holo-doses! The problem in winter really is the lack of sun. Whenever the sun is out, say between 1:30 p.m. and 1:35 p.m., I never have my camera ready or a holographic polish on. Very frustrating.
So here is a lightbox shot of He’s going in Circles, a coarse holographic polish from China Glaze. This collection is pretty old, so you you’ll most probably find them on blogsales only. The color is a somewhat teal-ish green on me. 
So I gave my best and tried making pictures with a direct light source, but this is the best I can do. In this light, the green is more visible, and I have to say, I like this too. Oh, forgot to tell you, this is two coats. I generally prefer the holographics from the Kaleidoskope collection to those smooth linear holographic polishes!
Do you like this? Or do you prefer linear holographics?
I’m very sorry that I kept all the holographic saturday post from you so long. There’s barely any sun inbetween the snowy Vienna January days, so I figured it would be a waste to wear holos. I must admit that I also didn’t realize that it would be possible to just make pictures with flash in my lightbox…. So when I received some Jade holographic polishes that I asked my friend B. to order for me I couldn’t wait any longer.
What you must know is that my taste in holographic polishes is pretty much the same as in all other polishes: they’re fine as long as they are green, yellow and, of course, pink. Today I will therefore show you Jade Mystic Gold!
To show the base color, this picture is taken in my lightbox with indirect light.
For the next pictures, I used flash. It is really a lot of fun to use flash in a lightbox because the flash lights up all the reflecting (aka holographic) particles, and for a second it looks as if the nails are struck by lightening.
Technicalities: I used two thin coats over a england Holy Grail (Old version). Perfect base color match! You can buy Jade nail polishes from Ninja Polish.
Good Lack, Nail!
