The color is a medium-toned shade of azure with aspects of blue-grey and steel blue, very similar to Pantone's silver lake blue. It's absolutely packed with tiny golden flakes, which gleam brightly as light travels over them and give the polish a softly reflective, semi-metallic sort of look on the nail that has a silvery flash. The holographic effects are responsive and athletic, creating a gorgeous prismatic flush in ambient light that has that delicious, bronzy "toasted" effect. Once again it's overcast with aspirations to rain here today, but I expect the holographic flare in the sun will be of the "loose linear" or "tightly scattered" variety from all of those gold flakies, but extra sparkly because of them too.
Application was most agreeable! The consistency of Custom #32 is fluid, light and loamy with a medium viscosity and a plush, silky soft, self-leveling glide over the nail that's amenable to thin or thicker coats as preference dictates. Pigmentation is very good. Slight sheerness on the first coat builds easily to fully opaque coverage with the second. Cleanup is easy. Custom #32 dries naturally in very good time to a smooth, shiny finish. Topcoat accentuates the presence and effects of the flakies and does not alter the holographic effects in any way that I could tell.
Photos show two coats of Holo-Maniacs Custom #32 over basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite. Unfortunately, the holographic effects kind of commandeered the camera in these pics -- in person, it's quite clear that this is more than a simple, straightforward holo.
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| Nail Hoot Holo-Maniacs Custom #32 |
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| Nail Hoot Holo-Maniacs Custom #32 |
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| Nail Hoot Holo-Maniacs Custom #32 |
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| Nail Hoot Holo-Maniacs Custom #32 |
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| Nail Hoot Holo-Maniacs Custom #32 |
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| Nail Hoot Holo-Maniacs Custom #32 |
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| Nail Hoot Holo-Maniacs Custom #32 |
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| Nail Hoot Holo-Maniacs Custom #32 |
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| Nail Hoot Holo-Maniacs Custom #32 |
This is a beautiful polish. The blue has a lovely, soft, shadowy sensibility with an indeterminate semi-metallic nature that highlights neither gold nor silver but sort of a mixture of the two. The holographic properties create a silvery swath along the axis of light that deepens to a richer, sharper blue at the edges of the nail, dimensionalizing the look, which has a super-fine, all-over, glistening sparkle that's like light off water in the distance. Here's the inspiration pic that creator Brandie used to design this lacquer:
I think she did a wonderful job translating the dreaminess of that photo. Holo-Maniacs Custom #32 is available for purchase through the end of October on the Nail Hoot website.
love,
Liz
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