Glitter Gal Citrine

Hey hey!

It's been a while since I participated in #SGSwatchFest / #polishtogether but being that this month is my birth month, I just HAD to! And what better way to usher November in than with a holographic baby!

This is three thin coats of Glitter Gal Citrine.

Love Glitter Gal's fuss free holographic formula. No bald spots, no dragging issues. Just pure holo gorgeousness! 

China Glaze Hologlam Collection Comparison Swatches

Hey y'all! Thought I'd do a quick comparison post for the China Glaze Hologlam shades. I know you all want as much info as you can get so I'm here to supply you with that information!

Ever since I got my nail swatch sticks, I've been happily swatching my babies and I think I'm a third through my collection. I've swatched my holos, indies and toppers (that includes flakies and glitters) and I'm not really looking forward to starting on the rest because it's gonna be a long project. Back to the sticks, I think they're a great way to catalogue your collection. I'm trying to sort mine by colours and I love how you can rearrange them so if you buy a new shade of polish that's in between two existing shades you own, it's easy to fit the new one in.

The sticks are also fantastic for doing comparisons since I don't have to reswatch anything so today's post is gonna feature my lovely sticks! Hope you guys don't mind that.  

All the pictures were taken indoors, under my table lamp.

Starting with the corals, we have China Glaze TTYL, China Glaze Digital Dawn, China Glaze TMI, China Glaze Not In This Galaxy, Layla Shock Pink and Layla Red Taboo.



Next, we have the magentas. From left to right, Layla Red Taboo, Layla Purple Illusion and China Glaze Infra-Red.



On to the lilacs, we have Color Club Halo-Graphic, China Glaze Astro-Hot and China Glaze Electric Magenta.



For the lavenders, we have Layla Ultra Violet, Color Club Cloud Nine, China Glaze Get Outta My Space and Color Club Fashion Addict.



Moving on to the dusty purples, we haveChina Glaze When Star Collide, Layla Misty Blush and Layla Cloudy Violet.



For the light blues, we have OPI DS Sapphire, Color Club Blue Heaven, Layla Mermaid Spell, FNUG Fusturistica and China Glaze Sci-Fly By.



Moving on to the medium to darker blues, we have China Glaze 2NITE, China Glaze High Def, China Glaze Strap On Your Moonboots, Into The Night (Franken), China Glaze Take A Trek and Glitter Gal Teal Blue.



As requested by Olivia, here is China Glaze DV8 and Take a Trek. DV8 leans more towards a marine blue whereas Take a Trek has a greyer undertone.



Same two polish, taken at an angle to show their holoness.



For the lighter, almost seafoam greens, we have China Glaze Don't Be A Luna-tic, Color Club Angel Kiss and Layla Jade Groove.



And we mustn' forget the olives that are A-England Princess Sabra and China Glaze OMG A UFO.



For the light greys, we've got Daiso #10, China Glaze Cosmic Dust and Layla Flash Black



And last but not least, we've got the charcoal/black holos that are China Glaze Galactic Gray, Color Club Revvvolution, Glitter Gal 10 to Midnight, Layla Flash Black and Jade Magia Negra.



I tried to include quite a few brands of holos in this comparison, like the China Glaze OMGs, Layla Holograms, Jade Holograficos, Color Club Halo Hues and Glitter Gal holos so you can tell how holo the new China Glaze Hologlams are.

I must admit that the aren't as blingy as the holos I've grown to love (Laylas and Color Clubs) but these new Holograms are quite different in terms of how smooth they look. The holo particles and reall extremely fine and honestly, the closest thing to compare them with will be the original OMGs.

As I've mentioned in my first swatch post of the Hologlams, these new China Glazes do dry a smidgen slower than the OMGs or the Laylas. I would say the dry time is comparable to the Halo Hues.

Let me know if you guys wanna see any other comparisons and If I own the polish, I'd gladly take pictures! Till next time!

Holo Month Day 23: Jade Magia Negra

For my second post for...



I chose a A BLACK HOLO!!!!! HOLAAAAA!

Jade Magia Negra is the deepest and blackest holographic polish I've seen. OMG IT'S SO PRETTY!



This was two easy coats of Magia Negra.



It was actually pretty opaque and you could probably get away with one coat if you know what you're doing!







Magia Negra is HOLO HEAVEN!



Here I have a comparison of Magia Negra with Glitter Gal Lizard Belly and 10 to Midnight, as well as my Spectraflair topcoat painted over a black base.



You can see that Lizard Belly is visibly greener and 10 to Midnight is a shade lighter than Magia Negra. Sadly, my SF topcoat doesn't seem to be as linearly holo as it should be! :(



Honestly, I've been looking at my holo polishes and I think I have a couple more to show you so I may continue posting holo polishes even after I've completed Holo Month! :)

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 5: Layla Jade Groove (and comparison)

Today, we have Layla Jade Groove, a super duper light green holographic polish. Jade Groove is super holo, more so than Coral Glam, Retro Pink and Ultra Violet, however, I'd say that Mercury Twilight is still a tiny bit more holo.

This is three coats of Jade Groove and all pictures were taken under my table lamp.











I didn't really have any other light green holo polishes besides Glitter Gal Green / Glossy Moss, another almost-silver holographic polish so it seemed apt to compare the two! This is three coats of each polish.





I think what's on everyone's mind though, is how Jade Groove compares to Mercury Twilight right? Since the Jade Groove is so light it appears almost silver, is it really that different from Mercury Twilight? Well, you can be the judge.





To me, there is a difference. Jade Groove obviously has a green tinge to it but if you do a regular-person test, they'd probably be unable to tell the difference from a distance, especially when they'll be more focused on the crazy holoness of the polish, rather than the colour. Still, if you're a holographic fan, you won't want to miss out on Jade Groove.

Wow, we're more than halfway done with the Layla Hologram series already! See you again for swatches of Mermaid Spell, coming up next!

May's Haul

Sorry I'm late with May's haul. I haven't really been keeping track of my polish collection of late, reason being it's getting harder to do so with the ever-expanding polish count. Also, I've been trying to stay off polish to save for something I would treasure more, a new guitar! That being said, I only started my serious low-buy in June so May's haul was a little crazy (as usual).

The first two pictures are of the polishes I got in Korea, while on my graduation trip. The polishes were dirt cheap I tell you and I grabbed so many that my baggage was overweight on the flight back. Thank goodness my friends who didn't shop a lot, so I "ate" into their excess weight limit.





As you can see, I'm really loving the chunky glitter trend right now, especially with all the indie polish trend so I had my chunky glitter fix with the Korean polishes! I'm not gonna name them because in all honestly, they're all alphabets and numbers and it's just too much work.

Next, we have the three Cult Nails polishes I got (Seduction, Captivated and Toxic Seaweed), Floam, as well as a couple of Beadstreet polishes I bought. In the bottom row, I got Jawbreaker and Dream Queen, Catrice Sold Out Forever (a Chanel Jade dupe), Essence Glorious Aquarious, GG 10 to Midnight, Inglot 204 (a blue flakie) and GG Andamooka Blue (a supposed blue flakie but I see random bits of red and green flakes in there too! D:).



Then we have four Essence Colour3 polishes. Three of them were CPs from EuropeI didn't know Singapore was gonna bring them in and sadly, I paid almost double what they cost at Watsons but hey, you win some, you lose some. And I'm still very grateful to my dear Evillee who helped me buy all the gorgeous European polishes on her trip there!



And lastly, I did an epic Ozotic / Picture Polish / A-England haul at ninjapolish. I'm so glad I snapped up all the Ozotic 500 series polish that I wanted because they're now discontinued.



So ther you have it, May's Haul. An epic haul if I might add. I seriously need to cut back on buying polishes! My Helmer is now full and I'm storing all the polishes you see in this post in an empty A4 paper box cover, which incidentally, is almost the same size as a Helmer drawer. I know us polish addicts always say we need to cut down and then we go on no/low buys which always turn out to fail but we'll see.

I'm pretty damn adamant this time and considering it's already 26th June, I've only bought a couple of polishes from a US blog sale because those polishes were quite unique and were going at some exremely reasonable prices! I did pay for my Pretty and Polished pre-orders but I placed those orders a long long time ago so they don't count!!! I also have the Nails Inc Sprinkles and some Nubar duochromes in my beautybay cart, which I'm sure I will check out by the end of the month but it's a considerable improvement already so yay! :)

Dark Holographic Comparison

Yes, I am aware of my holo craze. I do apologize if you're sick of seeing holo posts from me but I still haven't gotten enough of them yet.

Today, I have a comparison of my darker holos. I swatched them on a nail plate because I already had 2 shades painted on previously. As with all holo swatches, please click on the pictures to enlarge them cuz the holo effect will look better! I really wanted to type the names of the polish on the picture itself but my photoshop's a bit cranky today and the text tool is not cooperating with me so I'll just type the names here and I hope you won't get confused!



(L-R) OPI My Private Jet (Holo Version) (which I swatched at BHG despite stares from the OPI lady), my own franken of a holo MPJ, Color Club Revvvolution, TFS BK901 (this one is the charcoal holo, not the OPI Unrippen dupe, because TFS has 2 polishes with the same name) and lastly Glitter Gal Lizard Belly.



Here's a blurry shot so the holo effect is a little more apparent. The others are reversed, from L-R, from the above picture, with Lizard Belly being the first one from the left.

And now it's close-up time!



(L-R) MPJ, Franken, Revvvolution



(Top - bottom) Revvvolution, Franken and MPJ



(L-R) Franken, Revvvolution, BK901 and Lizard Belly



Same order as above.



(L-R) Revvvolution, BK901 and Lizard Belly



(L-R) BK901 and Lizard Belly

Took these last three shots when the sun FINALLY appeared.





Please ignore the blue polish. It was from a previous swatch.



That's what I'm talking about, Lizard Belly!

WOWZA! I'm so happy I did these swatches and here are my mental notes when was doing the swatches and reviewing the pictures:

1) I finally managed to capture some holoness from MPJ! If you have been reading my blog for a while now, you'd know that I came across a magical holo bottle of MPJ at BHG but the sales lady refused to sell it to me so I grew a pair, went back the next day and swatched the damn thing on my nail plate so at least I'd have a momento of it. Because it was rather sheer, the holoness was a bit hard to capture but I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the pictures!

2) Again, I have not captured Revvvolution this holographic before! Just look at the second, fifth and sixth pictures! WOW OH WOW! I always thought I owned a dud version but this dud ain't that bad after all!

3)   I'm not sure if Singapore is already selling BK901 because I got my bottle in Malacca. I paid roughly S$10 for it and there was a pink holo for sale there too. Not really a pink polish kinda girl so I gave it a miss. This polish was the lightest and most grey out of the five but it's holoness is probably the best!

4) Lizard Belly was a little weird. In the process of drying, it started to appear matte and I had to fight the urge to touch it immediately and try to wipe it with a cloth or something. Ultimately, it did dry glossy but I just found the whole thing so weird. And it's so hard to capture the holoness of Lizard Belly! It looks so holo irl but my camera just refuses to let Lizard Belly shine! Maybe it's due to how dark Lizard Belly is? I don't know. Oh, and Lizard Belly is actually a really dark green. It looks black in a lot of swatches but trust me when I say it's definitely green.

5) If you don't own any holographic polishes, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? The world is so much better with rainbows on your nails!