Monday, July 29, 2013

How to make every nail polish you own double as a holographic polish for $6-15

I've posted about this before, but there's no real need to buy holographic nail polish in every shade when you can just buy a holo topcoat and use it to transform any polish you have into a linear holo. It really works. Here's are some examples:
Holographic topcoat
One coat of holo topcoat (shade)
Holographic topcoat
One coat of holo topcoat (direct sunlight)
See? Just buy one bottle of topcoat instead of ALL THE HOLOS. The easiest at-home dupes.

Unfortunately, the topcoat I have is impossible to find now, but I hunted down a couple of other options that look identical, so you are not out of luck. From the Born Pretty store, there is Hologram Effect #1 for $5.59 and free shipping. There's also Super Black's Wishful Thinking holographic topcoat for $12 and $3 shipping. It's obviously much more expensive, but it's indie and made by the wonderful comic artist Natalie Dee, so maybe that means something to you.

If you need more convincing that one bottle of holo topcoat could quell your burning desire to buy every holographic nail polish out there, here's a comparison. Can you tell which is the holographic polish and which are regular polishes with holographic topcoat?

Holo topcoat over e.l.f. Desert Haze; Color Club Cherubic; holo topcoat over e.l.f. Copper

The middle swatch is two coats of Color Club Cherubic. One the left is two coats of holo topcoat over e.l.f. Desert Haze and on the right is two coats of holo topcoat over e.l.f. Copper. Absolutely just as pretty and flashy, in my opinion.

5 comments:

  1. The Super Black one is about 3x the size of the Born Pretty - but the texture of the BP looks like it might have smaller holo particles giving it a smoother look ? Both are pretty tho. I still want ALL THE HOLOS !! Gah, it's tough out there for a hoarder....loll

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    1. Oh, good point, thanks! The size of the bottles makes a big difference when considering the value, especially if it's something you want to use over and over again.

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  2. But what is the top coat that you have?

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    1. Mine is Speciallita Hits Hefesto.

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    2. You can still get that topcoat you just have to try another site besides llarowe. I know a few other sites that sell hits

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