Holo Month Day 9: Layla Hologram Effect Nail Polish Swatches (and round up)

I finally manged to catch a glimpse of sunlight so here's a quick swatch of the eight Layla Hologram Effects in sunlight! I thought I'd also provide a brief "summary" of the Layla Holograms at the end. Read on for that.
All swatches were three coats of each polish and taken in direct sunlight.



From L-R: Mercury Twilight, Coral Glam, Retro Pink, Ultra Violet



From L-R: Jade Groove, Mermaid Spell, Ocean Rush and Flash Black



From L-R: Mercury Twilight, Coral Glam, Retro Pink, Ultra Violet



From L-R: Jade Groove, Mermaid Spell, Ocean Rush and Flash Black

They were already holo enough in artificial lighting and HOLY MOLY, THEY'RE ALL SO HOLO IN THE SUNLIGHT, I CAN DIE!

Application: I did three coats of all the Layla Holograms in all my swatches. I didn't use an aqua base as I normally would with such polishes because I don't feel it helps prolong the wear of the polish on my nails anyway. I did buff my nails to a shine before polishing though, as recommended on the Layla website. The polish does appear matte for the first few seconds they're on your nails but they dry extremely holographic so don't worry if that happens. I did experience some bald spots and some VNL, which was why I did three coats of polish to even things out as well as to bring out the true colour of the polish. But overall, application was pretty okay. The only suggestion I'd give is to wait for each coat to dry before painting on the next to reduce streaking/bald spots.

Wear: As with most super smooth holographic polishes (China Glaze OMG collection, Make Up Stores holos and Nfu Oh holos), I did encounter more significant tipwear with the Laylas holos than regular polish. This being said, the Laylas have held up the best so far among the bunch, considering I was wearing them sans base and top coat. I did take showers with the polish on and they lasted so that says A LOT about the staying power of the Laylas. I know it sounds lame for polish to chip so easily but I experienced chipping with Make Up Store Greta while I was sleeping.

Final thoughts: I LOVE THESE LAYLAS. I am a lover of holographic polishes and I was extremely excited to be able to grab such linear (and smooth) holo polishes at a decent price (compared to the crazy sky-high ebay price of China Glaze OMGs)! I love these so much that I'm already eyeing the next eight Layla Holograms. I need them all. I want to have a Layla Hologram family in my Helmer.
Hope you enjoyed the Layla Hologram series! Since I've got a couple more holos on their way, I've decided to do Holo Month here on My Polish Adventures. I think for the next month, this site should be renamed My Holo Polish Adventures! :D

Holo Month Day 8: Layla Flash Black (and comparison)

Hello Polish Lovers! Today I have here the last of the Layla hologram swatches for now (I say for now because I'm fully intending to get my hands on the latest 8 holograms soon)!

This is three coats of Flash Black. You could probably get away with two coats though. Man, is Flash Black blingtastic or what!









For today's comparison, I whipped out almost all of my charcoal holos. I never knew I had this many until I went searching through my Helmer! Yikes!

I'm wearing three coats of each polish and all the comparison shots were taken in sunlight.



The TFS and Daiso polishes refused to shine under my table lamp so I had to go chasing after the sun. Not surprisingly, Flash Black remains the undisputed Charcoal Holo Queen, with 10 to Midnight coming in second!



This last picture shows the holoness in the TFS and Daiso polishes just a little better. You can click on the pictures to enlarge them. I promise the holo looks even more glorious when the pictures are bigger!



So that's it for the proper Layla Hologram swatches for now. I did managed to catch some sun so I'll be showing you sunlight skittle shots of all the Holograms tomorrow! See you then! :)

Holo Month Day 7: Layla Ocean Rush (and comparison)

Hey there! Today, I have swatches of Layla Ocean Rush for you all. Ocean Rush is the darker of the two blues and it's also the most opaque polish in the Hologram collection. I was surprised I managed to get a good finish (with no bald spots) in just two coats!

This is two coats of Ocean Rush, taken under my table lamp.







Somehow I find that Ocean Rush seems too saturated and in a way caused the holographic effect of the polish to "blend" in with its colour, resulting in an ultra smooth finish. I'm not sure if I'm the only one who feels this way though.

For today's comparison, I have Ozotic 515, a medium blue holo, much like Ocean Spell, except it has a "rougher" holo effect than the Layla. However, 515 makes up for it by burning brighter, as it has a more vibrant holo rainbow and you can see the red and orange in the rainbow better.

Here is two coats of each polish, again taken under artificial lighting (i.e. my table lamp).







GOSH, blue holos really own a large chunk of my polish soul! I just can't get over how holo the Layla Hologram collection has been so far! Stay tuned for the last of the proper Layla swatches, where I'll be showing you Flash Black, the charcoal holo that's got everyone raving about.

By the way, do you notice anything different about my pictures? *Ahem* my new "watermark" *ahem* I've been considering placing a watermark on all my pictures for a very long time and decided it was too time and space consuming to do so in the past but seeing how I needed to photoshop most of my pictures (crop, colour correct and sometimes add in the occasional comparison texts), adding a phrase would only take up just a few more seconds.

Of course there's an issue of having two sets of the same pictures (the original and the edited versions) and the extra space that would require but I'll deal with that later. Any opinions from you girls about the new watermark or how I should deal with the two sets of pictures? Should I just save all the changes onto the original copy (instead of save-as) so I only keep one copy ultimately? Let me know! :)