Sweet Baby Octopolish!

This world is head-over-heels crazy lately, and it frankly has me losing track of time since nails aren't what's keeping me up at night.  With St Patrick's Day coming up, it suddenly occurred to me that March had so far had nary a irish-winking green design, so time to get on that. indoor, CF lighting Lacquer Lust used to occasionally release limited edition unicorns, often around a holiday theme.  Each of these had a signature somewhat sheer silvery/neutral holo microglitter base, with various other glitters added for the theme.  I had to have this one as soon as I saw someone's sparkly swatch photos... and yet kept saving it for some other St Paddy's, unloved for 4+ years? outdoor, shaded daylight One Lucky Unicorn was, of course, a St Patrick's Day offering.  This version of the sparkly holo glitter base has translucent lemony yellow and bright kelly green glitters in at least 2 sizes each. outdoor, bright sunlight Pictures do not  do this U...

I forgot to add this to the initial post, and then decided I was too lazy to edit <g> When I grabbed LL's Emerald, I thought that I might as well test run a couple of other green holos that seemed pretty close - Color by Llarowe's Gizmo and a England's Dragon. And this is what happened: Indoor Natural lighting Direct Sun You have no idea how long it took me to position my fingers to hold the bottles like that. Indoor, incandescent;  they look the closest here. Basically, they are close-ish, but there are no dupes.   Gizmo is not nearly s dark as I was hoping, and it flashes a lot more blue than I'm happy with.  When I purchased it, there were just a couple of blogger light-box photos, which put it at a perfect color for me, so there is that (read: why I will never lightbox this stuff, even if the pictures are prettier).   In most lights, Emerald is close (but not identical to) Dragon.  The key difference between them is that D...

Since the sun was actually out yesterday, I rushed to put on a holo I have been itching to try.   It's Emerald by Lacquer Lust - part of their Birthstone collection.  Since that collection kept selling out, I feel rather lucky to get a couple of bottles of it. Incandescent lighting Natural lighting inside. Inside, natural lighting Direct Sun I love using my garden as a prop (broccoli).  Direct Sun Sun - Killer fire. Emerald is what I've found is closest to a nice true green in a linear holo.  Most linear holos flash very blue and start to teal on me, and teal gives me lobster hands... and is not one of my more favorite colors to wear anyway.  The wear on this was pretty solid, I didn't have much in the way of tipwear or anything while I was wearing it (yeah, I've already changed polishes, I have a trip coming up!) I like the formula, it was easy and self leveling, and I didn't have a problem with top coats. -S ...