Spectrafranken HOLO!

Okay first off, sorry for just going MIA! It's been finals week and I left my camera back at my parents house... of course. But no worries, I have a GREAT post full of a ton of pictures today! And I'll start uploading old swatches I already took pictures of too!

Onto the post! For this mani I used a franken holo that I made out of some nail polish and spectraflair. A franken is just a custom nailpolish you make by mixing your own and spectraflair is a pigment used in automotive paints that can be bought to mix with nailpolish to produce linear holographic properties. In other words, it produces a smooth rainbow effect similar to GOSH, NfuOh and the China Glaze OMG line. It's kind of hard to find but sooo worth it! You should use caution when mixing however and use gloves and a mask for safety.

For my franken, I used about a 3/4 full bottle of clear polish, added some jelly blue to it and about 3 tiny strawful scoops of the spectraflair pigment. So my polish is semi-sheer but I like it this way so I can layer it over other colors or just build its own opacity with a few coats. It's SUPER holo, even indoors/in low light. Okay enough of me talking, onto the pictures!

In the shade:

                           

                                                           

                           

In the shade, this is a nice dusty perwinkly blue..almost close to a denim color. Even though it looks like there is no holo here, there definitley is still a subtle rainbow IRL. The closest comparison would be the last picture. Unlike most holos that cast a gray/silver cast or shimmer to the nail polish in the shade, this one definitley still has a rainbow effect..just not as vivid.

In direct light/everywhere else:

 

HOLO-FRIKEN-GOODNESS! This is how the nail polish appears at most times. I literally could not stop staring at my nails the first day I put it on! And this picture is taken after FIVE days of wear! FIVE!! And not a single chip! WAY better formula than Nfu-Oh, which always manages to chip on me by the end of the day:(

And some pictures of the bottle. IRL there is definitley a linear rainbow you can see in the bottle. The best I could take a picture of it was on the bottom of the bottle. Isn't it super pretty?! Kind of reminds me of peacock feathers! I want to dump spectraflair on everything haha.

Ps. Idk why my pictures won't line up.. it's driving me crazy!! sorry:/

FIRST POST: Revlon Whimsical Mattified

Yayyy first blog post!! And the first swatches go to none other than the famous Revlon Whimsical! As many of you know by now, this is one of Revlon's newer shades and was first released as a limited edition polish, but is now a staple in their collection. It is an almost perfect dupe of Deborah Lippman's Glitter in the Air but at less than half the price! I picked mine up 25% off for around $3 :)

The polish itself is a super pretty milky blue-ish tinted jelly, with large hexagonal blue and pink glitter chunks, a smaller pink hexagonal glitter and a blue iridescent shimmer suspended within it. Alone, it is veryyyy sheer and would probably require AT LEAST 4 coats to reach the opacity in the bottle. But that's what layering is for!

Here is a macro shot of the bottle, as you can see, the formula is just milky enough to add a tad bit of color but still show off those gorgeous glitters peeking through. Reminds me of cotton candy!

For my nails, I decided to layer two coats of Whimsical over two coats of Light Blue by Love & Beauty, a nice baby blue creme polish with just an itty bit of shimmer that's sold at Forever 21. The application of Whimsical is like any other polish of it's sort. Because the glitter pieces are sort of sparse, you have to kind of glop nail polish on your nail and then move the glitter pieces around to where you want them..it's really not that bad! It just helps ensure an equal(ish) distribution of glitter on each nail. Then for fun I added Matte About You, a matte topcoat from Essie and I am in love with the look!! So fun and creamy! I love mattifying nail polishes, it makes them look so smooth!

Here you can see that there is a slight color difference between the two nail polishes, but because of Whimsical's sheerness, it can be layered over any nail polish without altering the base color too much. 

I can't wait to try Whimsical over other colors! Like maybe a nice pink to show off more of the blue glitters or a really dark color, to show off both glitter colors! What do you guys think? Do you like Whimsical matte? What colors do you think it would look good on? 

PS. Sorry about my cuticles, this was def PREcleanup :)