Color Club - Harp On It

Harp On It is a silver linear holographic polish. The first photo is under a regular light bulb to bring out the holographic effect. The second photo is in a light box showing the base colour. 

The holographic effect is quite strong. This is a good silver holographic polish to get if you don't own one. 

I purchased the entire Halo Hues collection and I'll be posting swatches of each tonight at one minute intervals.

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Color Club

Name: Harp On It

Coats For Opacity: 2

Collection: Halo Hues

Year: 2012

Colour: Silver

Finish: Holographic

Formula: Big 3 Free

Made In: USA

Volume: 15ml | 0.5 fl oz

Price: ~$6.73 - $9.68 (AUD)

Where To Buy: 

TransDesign $6.95 (USD)

Head2Toe Beauty $8 (USD)

8ty8 Beauty $8 (USD)

Color Club $10 (USD)

Crush Cosmetics $8.95 (AUD)

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Ulta3 - Twinkle Toes

Twinkle Toes is just like the others, it has different sized silver hex glitter in a clear base. Again no bleeders, woohoo! I really like Twinkle Toes, it makes my nails feel fresh  despite the yellow staining (sorry about that). 

I wonder how this would look as a pedi, I think I'm going to try it so I can have Twinkle Toes! 

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Ulta3 

Name: Twinkle Toes

Coats: 3
Collection: Get Your Glam On

Year: 2012 

Colour: Silver

Finish: Glitter

Formula: Big 3 Free 

Made In: PRC (China) 

Volume: 13ml | 0.44 fl oz 

Price: $2 (AUD) 

Where To Buy: 

Blooms The Chemist

Terry White Chemists

Soul Pattinson Chemist

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Layla - Metal Chrome

Layla - Metal Chrome 

I ordered some Layla polishes a few months ago and I'm only just getting around to swatching them! I bought three Mirror Effect polishes so I'll have swatches of those up over the next few days. 

Chrome polishes will exaggerate any imperfections on your nails. I thought I could get away with using a ridge filling base coat but it looked horrible. I ended up using a coat of Seche Vite over my base coat to create a sooth surface under the chrome polish. I wouldn't recommend using a fast dry top coat over these though. I tried it on my pinky nail to see what would happen. Seche Vite caused it to wrinkle. It did smooth out a bit as it dried but not entirely. I didn't put any top coat on the other three nails so you can see the difference in the picture above.

<<Also, what do you think about my new polish info section? 

  NAIL POLISH INFO

Brand: Layla
Name: Metal Chrome
Coats For Opacity: Two
Collection: Mirror Effect
Year: 2012
Colour: Silver
Finish: Chrome
Formula: Big 3 Free
Volume: 10ml
Price: $15.32 - $16.00
Where To Buy: 
Layla Cosmetics Shop - €12.20
Harlow & Co. - $16.00
Zappos - $15.50

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Ulta3 - Magnetic Collection

A while ago (might have been last year) I had a dream that I went to my local chemist and found Ulta3 magnetic polishes! I was so disappointed when I woke up and realised it was only a dream. Then last month Ulta3 announced their new magnetic polishes. It was a dream come true haha! I found the collection last Thursday but didn't realise that there were five different magnet designs so I only picked up three. Also I'll be nubbin' it for a while, I broke a nail.

There's not a great colour variety in this collection. Mostly greys and pinky-red colours. This was a little disappointing. Each bottle including the magnet is $5.

These were the two extra magnets that I picked up. I've heard one of the other additional magnets is very similar to the diagonal magnet that each bottle comes with. The separate magnets are $3 each.

Ulta3 - Allure

2 coats

Allure is silvery brown shimmer. I thought I could see a little bit of green shimmer in this one when I looked closely. EDIT: The name Allure has been used previously by Ulta3.

Ulta3 - Enchanted

2 coats

Enchanted has silver glitter in a silver shimmer base. When the magnet is applied it brings out a dark grey and the silver glitter is more prominent. This name was used in Ulta3's last collection released a few months prior. I don't like it when companies reuse names. If they can't think of new names why not ask the fans for suggestions.

Ulta3 - Spellbound

2 coats

Spellbound is a dark grey shimmer with silver glitter, I'm also seeing very subtle green and pink glitter in the bottle but maybe my eyes are just playing tricks on me. I had trouble getting the magnetic design to show up on Spellbound. I tried four times on my ring finger to get the star pattern to work but that was the best I could do.

Ulta3 - Bewitched

2 coats

Bewitched is a magenta shimmer. When the magnet is applied it brings out a dark colour.  I think the magnet worked best with this one, which is probably why it's my favorite from the collection.

Ulta3 - Seductive

2 coats

Seductive is a purple and silver shimmer. I really liked the colour of this one but then when you apply the magnet it brings out this murky brown colour. If I wear this one again I won't be using the magnet.

Ulta3 - Hypnotic

2 coats

Hypnotic is a pink/coppery colour with purple shimmer. The magnetic design wasn't very strong on this one either.

This is what the magnets look like. They have a place for you to put your finger and then you lower the magnet over the top. I couldn't see how close the magnet was getting to my nail so I ended up using them like this:

I would rest the end of the magnet on my cuticle and get as close as I could without touching my nail to the magnet. I held it in place for about 20 seconds while blowing on my nail to help it dry.

I found the formula to be better then some of the PRC made bottles and I noticed that the bottles in this collection were made in Taiwan. I wonder if production has now moved to Taiwan permanently? 

Overall i'm happy with the collection. There wasn't much colour variety but I'm proud of Ulta3 giving the magnetic trend a go! I hope that if they release more magnetics they choose a variety of colours.

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Sally Hansen Gem Crush - Glitz Gal

Sally Hansen Gem Crush - Glitz Gal

3 coats

Glitz Gal is from the Sally Hansen Gem Crush collection - 2012. It's a dark grey micro glitter with larger holographic hex glitters. This dried super fast! It's very gritty so you'll need lots of top coat. It also drieds dull so the top coat brings out the gliter. This is very similar, if not a dupe for China Glaze - Some Like It Haute. I think a few of the others are dupes for the China Glaze - Eye Candy collection.

At first I picked up Be-Jeweled (the purple one) from this collection. The checkout line went past the display and when I got down the line to the display I ended up swapping for Glitz Gal.

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Ozotic - 509

Ozotic - 509

3 Coats

Top coat: Amour

509 is a silver, fine particle holographic nail polish. This is also very holographic in the sunlight. 2 coats still showed a little bit of visible nail line so I used 3. It's holographic in the shade but you can only really tell when you move you hands around. Unfortunately this does not kill my lemming for one of those amazing silver holographic nail polishes like China Glaze - OMG or GOSH - Holographic.

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China Glaze Crackle - Platinum Pieces

China Glaze - Platinum Pieces

Platinum Pieces is a metallic silver crackle polish. I've put it over China Glaze - For Audrey. I actually used two coats here. I applied one coat and then as the first coat started to crackle I applied the second coat. I did this because one coat is too sheer for me. The only place I want to see the base colour in in between the crackle gaps. This picture was taken in overcast light.

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