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Color Club - Revvvolution

Posted by Erin on 9/25/11. Filed under: , , , ,
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Color Club's Revvvolution is one of my favorite polishes for all of the most obvious reasons. It's a holo. It's a "black" holo. It's a relatively linear holo. And it shines like a million rainbows in the sun. It also makes me think of one of my favorite songs, 12 Black Rainbows by Type O Negative (hey, don't judge me. We all like a little bit of metal).



"Idle hands may be the devil's work
                                                   Unbridled minds you see are so much worse"





Color: 
A "black" (more like gunmetal) linear holo!


Application:
Almost perfect, except for the fact that it's extremely easy to flood your cuticles with this. Which ultimately means that it's a *tad* watery. Requires 2 coats for complete opacity and dries rather quickly.


Downside:
There are actually 2 versions of Revvvolution out there. One that is full of holoy goodness, and the other which is a supposed "dud". Seeing as I only have 1 bottle of this, I couldn't even tell you which version I have for sure. But I do know that it holo's like the best of them in the sun. Indoors it's not nearly as impressive, but there's still a distinct holo effect going on there.


Bottom Line:
I think the pictures speak for themselves! But it is unfortunate that there's a version of this that isn't as amazing as the other. So with that said, if you decide to buy it online you take the risk of purchasing something that may not be as spectacular as you were hoping for.

Batman Lightning Bolts

Posted by Erin on 8/21/11. Filed under: , , , ,
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Yesterdays birthday celebration went well. Cake, cheeseburgers, and cards full of money were in abundance. If I weren't so lazy and tired today, I would have gone out shopping. But instead I have been laying in bed recovering from the 1 too many glasses of Skinny Girl Margarita that I poured myself last night ;)

I haven't even mustered up enough energy to paint my nails yet. But I do have something from the vault to show you all. This is a mani that I did using one of Nailside's tutorials. If you haven't given her blog a look yet, you have to immediately. She does the most creative scotch tape manis you've ever seen. 




It looks a little Batmanish, right? That's completely accidental, but a welcome outcome nonetheless. This took forever to finish and by the time I was done with my right hand, I had no energy or patience to do my left hand :P

I have loads and loads of nail mail coming my way. I couldn't even begin to count just how many bottles I'm expecting this week. Let's just say that this blog is going to be in swatch overload for quite some time.

"White on Black on White" Half Moon Mani

Posted by Erin on 8/11/11. Filed under: , , , , ,
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To me, half moon manis are chic and a good way to use nailart to achieve a unique but simple look. But, as you can see from this mani I did for today, it's quite easy to "jazz them up". This is 2 coats of China Glaze's White on White and the black I used is Sinful Colors' Black on Black. So essentially you could call this a "White on Black on White" half moon mani. :)






If you're interested in how I did the basic half moon look, you can head on over to Painting Rainbows and check out the tutorial I did as a guest blogger.

Kleancolor Chunky Holo Clover and Black

Posted by Erin on 7/28/11. Filed under: , , , , , , ,
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I ordered Chunky Holo Clover and Chunky Holo Black by Kleancolor a few days ago and they finally arrived this afternoon. I was psyched to try these out because from the swatches I'd seen online, they appeared to have a unique quality to them that reminds me a little of flakie polish. 

Here is 4 coats of Chunky Holo Clover:




Clover has a very sheer kelly green jelly base. It's pretty but because it's so sheer it is lacking in wearability. However.....



it's quite charming when layered over a dark green :) This was 2 coats of Last Chance by Sinful Colors with 2 coats of Chunky Holo Clover layered over it. Not bad at all.

Chunky Holo Black was not even worth applying by itself. I tried, and it looked too gross to even take photos of it. So here you have 2 coats of it layered over Black on Black by Sinful Colors. 




Beautiful. The base of this is every bit as sheer as Clovers and it's grey. Not black, but grey. I'm not even sure why they call this Chunky Holo Black, because even in the bottle you can see that the base is anything but. I suppose it doesn't matter that much since it's so gorgeous over a real black base. 

My one question is why they made the glitter in Chunky Holo Black truly chunky with multi sized pieces of glitter, but left Clover (and presumably the rest of the Chunky Holo set) with just a standard medium sized glitter. I think Clover could have definitely benefitted from some of the super chunky pieces that are in Black.

Curious as to what Chunky Holo Black would look like over other colors, I decided to layer it over (from left to right) Ruby Ruby by Sinful Colors, Volts by Funky Fingers, Funky Dunkey by OPI, and Port Royal by Funky Fingers.


 

I will definitely be using this over Funky Dunkey in the future!