Revlon Ruby Ribbon & Color Club Halo Hues

Hi, I meant to post this on 1 Jan but was lazing around too much that day :p Anyway, happy new year! Took the opportunity to try out Revlon Ruby Ribbon (fushia glitter with magenta and holographic bar glitter), which is on my index and pinky. I have 2 coats over 1 coat of Essence Glamorous Life which appears similar in color. You can see the close up bottle shot below.

As it was New Year's, wanted to have an appropriate theme, so for middle and ring fingers, applied Essence Galactic Black and I haphazardly drew on the fireworks with Color Club Halo Hues shades.

That's all for my first mani in 2014, which I'm not entirely satisfied with, but I guess that means more room for improvement? ;)

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Color Club Beyond and flowers

Was away for a while so will try to catch up on my backlog :p I had an urge to use my holographic polishes again so here is Color Club Beyond with some aqua blue flowers on middle and ring fingers and pearls on index and pinky. Below is the plain swatch.

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Essie Come Here! and Etude House PBK803

Base is Essie Come Here!, a bright red shade with orange undertones, and for the ring finger, I drew some random white flowers with black dots. I was too lazy to do it for all fingers :p so I decided to tie in the black and white accent with Etude house PBK803, a black/white/pink hex+bar glitter.

Below is plain swatch of Essie Come Here! (2 coats). I don't normally wear reds but this is a great color for summer :)

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Color Club Beyond flowers on Essence Glamorous Life

Base is Essence Glamorous Life, a pretty fushia pink with pink glitter, which has unfortunately been discontinued (-_-)" [I got it some time ago but it was an untried until now]. I also sponged on Kleancolor Red Sparkle on the tips but guess it is not that obvious. For the nail art, I drew on the flowers with Color Club Beyond (black holographic), added black acrylic paint inside the flowers + the vines, and lastly dotted the flowers and around them with Beyond.

Lost a bit of interest midway so wasn't too conscientious with the painting/dotting, so pls excuse the messiness. And I only added Etude House PBK803 glitter to my other hand :p

Pls click read more for pic of right hand and plain swatches.

Color Club Beyond from Halo Hues 2013 with Over the Moon

Base is Color Club Beyond and dots are Color Club Over the Moon from the Halo Hues 2013 collection. Wanted to do a glequin frame kind of style but my dotting skills are bad, haha....can't seem to control the size and placement properly, guess I need more practice, this is my 2nd dotting try after this attempt :p If you wanna see bottle shots, they are in Color Club Halo Hues haul post.

Anyway, it was hard to capture Beyond's holo-ness, think Miss Bliss's was stronger and was easier to apply. Beyond was thicker, but still manageable. Above is 2 coats.

Update: Got a shot in the sun :)

Did my nails at night so no sun shots unfortunately, but below are under fluorescent and halogen lights.

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Color Club Miss Bliss from Halo Hues 2013 with Beyond and Over the Moon

I finally have Color Club Halo Hues 2013 on my nails! The pink is Miss Bliss, the black is Beyond and the blue is Over the Moon. The strips are painted on freehand. I applied base and top coats as usual and did not see any difference after I applied the top coat. You can see bottle shots in this haul post :)

Btw, I don't do pure swatches (i.e. paint, shoot, remove, paint, shoot, remove, in one session), as I prefer to wear a color for at least 1-2 days before removing and putting on new ones, hence it will take some time for me to get through all the polishes, so pls be patient :) But if you have any you would like to see earlier, let me know and I will try to oblige ;) And my posts have finally caught up to live-time, so my posts would be at a slower pace from now on....

So, what is the conclusion about Color Club Halo Hues 2013? Just one word => GORGEOUS!!!

Above is a pic under halogen lamp and under the sun it looks like this too. It applies great in 2 coats and has a strong linear holo, while the color itself still appears clearly. I have applied a sheer silver holo polish over a mint green and a blue+raspberry in the past, and although the holo appears, the base color gets obscured a little, and you had to be careful to apply it thinly and evenly otherwise the silver holo polish look streaky on the colored base.

So I'm super delighted to have gotten these, and I would have considered getting backups but I know I would never finish any bottle of polish :p

And in case you were wondering, it looks pretty under fluorescent lighting as well.

If you don't have many holographic polishes in your stash, Color Club Halo Hues 2013 is a great collection to consider! ;)

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Color Club Halo Hues 2013 haul! Swatches to come...

Just too excited about my Color Club Halo Hues 2013 haul which has just arrived, so here is a pic I shared on Instagram :D

Had been waiting for the China Glaze Hologlam collection since I saw info on it last year but ended up not very convinced by the swatches, which was such a disappointment after waiting for months! :(

Luckily, I saw Color Club Halo Hues and they were so gorgeous that I bought 5 of the 6 in the collection (o_o)"
Beyond
Cosmic Fate
Over The Moon
Miss Bliss 
Eternal Beauty

Will share pics shot by camera when I have the time to upload and of course, swatches as well since I can't wait to use them, hehe...

Update: 
1) Mani using  Miss Bliss (main), Beyond and Over the Moon
2) Mani using Beyond (main) and Over the Moon 
3) Mani using Cosmic Fate
4) Mani using Eternal Beauty
5) Mani using Over the Moon

Pics below are using camera, hopefully gives you a better view of the polishes ;)

Beyond

Eternal Beauty and Over the Moon

Miss Bliss and Cosmic Fate

Aren't they gorgeous? And this is only under fluorescent light, imagine them under the sun!

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Flakies half moon (Nubar 2010 and Ludurana Flocado)

Yet another half moon as I have previously warned...guess I was going through a half moon phase back then :p This was when flakies were appearing everywhere in blogs and I was drawn in as well. The pic doesn't do them justice as the flakies were more visible in real life.