Quick Photo Dump ;D

Rica's "Squish the Rainbow" set

Unsure of the colors

A baby blue (not sure which) with Indigo Banana's Holo Top Coat

Water Marble using two Revlon colors (names unknown)

Attempt at leadlight technique using Rica's Squishy Lime and Squishy Grape(?)

Dark Blue topped with a ChinaGlaze Prism glitter topper

ILNP Ultra-Chrome Flakie collection (happy birthday to me)

Unknown colors, using nail vinyls to get the lightning bolt outline

An ILNP pink holo with negative space chevrons

All China Glaze colors

Birthday Nails, KB Shimmer "Shade Shifter" with Mundo De Unas Silver stamping polish

Birthday Nails, KB Shimmer "Shade Shifter" with Mundo De Unas Silver stamping polish

Light blue with a holo top coat and stamped with a blue mundo de unas stamping polish

Sorry I don't remember the names of everything. If you are seriously wondering what one is I can rack my brain and look through my polishes to try and figure it out per request. But for now it is 1am and I need sleep.

Day 10, Gradient!

I was originally gonna use just China Glaze Get Outta My Space and China Glaze Strap On your Moon Boots to make a pink to blue holographic gradient, they sponged on so sheer I knew I would be there forever to get the opacity I like. SO I went for two colors I KNOW make a spectacular gradient. KleanColor Metallic Pink and KleanColor Metallic Sapphire. I used them as a base and got the opacity I wanted then used just China Glaze Get Outta My Space for a sheer holo top coat applied via the cosmetic sponge I had done the regular gradient with. 

What wound up happening was the China Glaze "top coat" made the vibrant base colors more dusty and added the holographic sheen I was hoping for! It is SUPER pretty even in low light when you can't see the holo effect.

Here it is indoors under my desk lamp:

You can see a hint of the holo effect but not much. Because I do my nails almost exclusively at night I had to wait until I woke up this morning to see how they fared under sunlight. I wasn't disappointed. Unfortunately my camera or my skills as a photographer are not well suited to catching the rainbow. So I have a picture and a brief video to share to try and show the beauty.

 

And for reference this is a gradient I did months ago with the same base colors minus the holo topping.

Over all? I am gonna be super sad to remove this for tomorrow's prompt.

Walmart refuses to enable my addiction!

So a few people have been seeing new colors from Salon Perfect popping up in their Walmarts, and this got me pretty excited. So I went to my local Walmart the other day and the nail polish section looked as bad as it did last time I was there... mostly empty and in a state of disarray. It's nice to have a big section just for nail polish but what is the point if they never stock anything new? Or even refill the stock in the first place? 

I sometimes wonder if they don't refill the stock because they don't know half of it is missing, as in people are walking out of the store with a pocket full of polish and not paying for it. I mean the alternative to that theory is they just never stock it even though they know it's a nearly empty aisle.

All this is kinda beside the point. What I wanted to mention was the new Salon Perfect Holographic Collection which is crazy similar to China Glaze's Hologlam collection. Not surprising considering they are owned by the same parent company. They still look very pretty. Maybe not as holographic as one would like but I'm addicted to sparkly stuff.

I first saw pictures that weren't form the company at nouveaucheap. And form there did more digging and found this comparison at ohthreeohfour. Apparently a lot of the colors are pretty much exact dupes of the China Glaze colors. Which is sad but at least it gives people a cheaper way to get holo polishes. I got all my China Glaze Hologlam colors form the clearance bin at Sally Beauty so the price was pretty similar thanks to mark down.

Anyway I will continue to hold out hope that my walmart with pull it's self together and carry these colors!