Descending Glitter Placement

 Today I'm wearing this holo glitter placement design. Glitter placements are some of my favorite manicures to do and I wanted to make this design look a little bit different from what I typically do, so I placed the glitter to kind of look like it was streaming down. The base is Zoya Aspen and I picked the holo glitter out of OPI When Monkeys Fly!. These nails are super cool and shiny, which unfortunately is really hard to pick up with still images, but I tried my best.

Green Holo Bursts

Here's a design I did to utilize some new nail vinyls and polishes.The primary green is Zoya Merida, the bursts are outlined in Color Club Kismet, with dots of Milani Hi-Tech in the centers. The surrounding dark creme green is OPI Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow.  I was initially going to do this design on every finger, but I wasn't sure how much I would like it and I also wanted to show off more of Merida.

Holo Triangles

Hello! For these nails I started off with a vertical gradient of Color Club Cosmic Fate, Color Club Miss Bliss and Color Club Eternal Beauty. For the triangles I made full nail decals using a silicone mat, a nail vinyl, and Color Club Beyond. One thing that I had noticed which I had never really considered before is that the base polishes lost their linear holo through sponging on the gradient. Because these are holo nails, prepare for more pictures than really necessary.

Broken Stripes

For this design I did a random gradient base using China Glaze Rain Dance The Night Away, China Glaze Let's Jam, and China Glaze Boho Blues, with a light coat of Nicole By OPI Lets's Make A Comet-Ment on top. The stripes are Xtreme Wear Midnight Sky.

A Rift in the Galaxy

I did today's design using some lightning bolt nail vinyls. I was going to do a gradient, but decided to mix it up a little bit and do some galaxy nails instead. For the galaxy I used China Glaze Mix and Mingle, China Glaze One Track Mind, China Glaze Capacity To See Beyond, China Glaze Too Yacht To Handle, and a little bit of Orly Shine On Crazy Diamond. The bolt is Color Club Over The Moon outlined with Zoya Storm.

Holo Gradient and Zebra Print

Hello! I did a vertical gradient using some really pretty Milani holos that my friend recently passed down to me. I thought the gradient looked really nice, but it was a little bland for me, so I had to add some zebra print. I used Milani Cyberspace, Digital, HD, Hi-Res, Hi-Tech. The zebra print is with Color Club Revvvolution.

PNMC: 3 Color Gradient

It's week two of the Pick N Mix Challenge! This week I'm doing the 3 color gradient prompt. For this manicure I used three Color Club halos, Cosmic Fate, Eternal Beauty, and Over The Moon. I did a dot design on my ring finger using Color Club Revvvolution. I was going to put the dots on every nail, but I ended up not liking it that much, so it became an accent nail. Sorry there are a lot of pictures, I just think the halos are really awesome.

China Glaze Infra Red

 Hello! Just this past weekend, while at a discount beauty shop, I came across the China Glaze Hologlam collection, a 12 piece collection of holographic polishes. I originally wasn't thrilled with the polishes, especially not for 14 dollars, but at the store they were under 5, that's cheaper than your average China Glaze! I couldn't help but get at least one of them. I decided on Infra Red. It's a bright magenta. The holo in it isn't a strong as I would have liked, but it's definitely there. The formula is smooth and very pigmented, I used two coats. I really like this polish, but I don't know if it's worth shelling out 14 bucks for it.

Color Club Halo Hues 2013

Hello! Today I have some awesome polishes to show! For my birthday last week I got a couple of polishes from the recent Color Club Halo Hues collection. They are pretty amazing. I received four from the six piece collection, Cosmic Fate (orange), Eternal Beauty (purple), Kismet (yellow), and Over The Moon (blue). The polishes have a great formula, although sometimes, after the fact, I have noticed the slightest bit of patchiness. Each polish is really pigmented and has a strong linear holo! So far I've only worn Kismet and Over The Moon on their own, so I have some quick swatches of those. The holo is even stronger than my camera wanted to pick up.

 

I also got striping tape! I couldn't resist doing some fun designs and playing around with these new polishes!

For this manicure I used all of the mentioned polishes

And with manicure I used Over The Moon and Eternal Beauty.

X Marks The Holo

One of my favorite combinations is using different colors in that "holo"- like finish. Naturally, when I got Color Club Wild At Heart, one of those "holos", I had to do another one of those manicures. I was originally going to do this as a tape manicure, but I thought that would be way to time consuming. Plus my tape work is usually pretty sloppy, the opposite effect of what it's supposed to be. So I just settled for my usual brush detailing.

I used China Glaze Techno Teal, Color Club Worth The Risque, and Wild At Heart.