Color Club Cosmic Fate from Halo Hues 2013 with Essence Gorgeous Bling Bling

Here is the 3rd color from my Color Club Halo Hues 2013 haul - Cosmic Fate. Ring finger is 2 coats of Essence Gorgeous Bling Bling with round gold studs from Born Pretty Store and Cosmic Fate.

Color Club Cosmic Fate is a peachy shade and applies smoothly like Miss Bliss and has a strong linear holo. From the 3 shades that I have tried so far, Beyond has the weakest holo and thickest consistency.

Essence Gorgeous Bling Bling is a burnt orange with gold flakies and is quite pretty, but I guess it is at a disadvantage when put together with Cosmic Fate :p

Below left under halogen lighting and right is under fluorescent lighting with my camera but above is more color accurate, and it's actually with my iphone (=_=)

Liking the polish combi and studs so will probably keep this mani on for the next few days ;)

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Quick look at Color Club Eternal Beauty vs Wild at Heart

Update: See Eternal Beauty and Wild at Heart in this mani

No time to do any painting on nails :( But thought people might be interested to see how Color Club Eternal Beauty and Wild at Heart compares, so will just show the bottle and scotch tape shots.

Eternal Beauty is much lighter than Wild at Heart and leaning lavender. Also, Wild at Heart only has scattered holographic bits, while Eternal Beauty has a much stronger holo. Was initially afraid they might be too similar in terms of color, but seems like it's not the case :)

Will probably do a mani with the 2 of them in the next week.... ;)

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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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Essence Too Blue to be True stamped with China Glaze Harmony and BM307

Essence Too Blue to be True is from the A New League collection. It is an inky blue with violet undertones. It is a little sheer but I did 2 medium/thick coats above. I do not like the brush though, as it is skinny and doesn't fan out too well. Don't get why they use different brushes in their seasonal collections, when their standard brush is excellent. Somehow I have problems with Sally Hansen and Golden Rose maxi/wide brushes but Essence's work great for me.

Anyway, I wanted to do freehand painting inspired by a Tsumori Chisato pouch at first but it didn't turn out too well - looked kiddish and my moons looked like bananas (-_-)"

So I ended up redoing the 2 fingers and stamping using China Glaze Harmony and BM307 instead. Liked it much better and Harmony matched the polish pretty well :)

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