Wednesday 29 August 2012

Layla - Ocean Rush

For as much as I love them, I hardly ever use my holos, even in the summer because it's so hard to actually get a sunny day to coincide with me having the time to paint my nails. As strange as that sounds, it's painfully true. So I was quite impressed when a friend from Instagram told me she swatches her holos at night, under her lamp as she does with any other polish and the holo effect still shows as vividly.

I can't say if this is the case for every brand (I will most definitely put it to the test) but it's definitely true of this Layla Hologram Effect. I was so impressed the linear holo effect shows indoors under my lamp, hmmm, why didn't I think of that before? It makes sense!


I wore Ocean Rush with no base coat as I don't own any holo-compatible base coats and it was quite tricky to apply. Nothing too bad that a second coat didn't fix. I was also afraid a top coat would kill the linear holo effect but it didn't seem to make a difference (at least with the top coat I used, CND Speedy).


I tried adding some sort of nail art over it but gave up after a while and just added some silver chevron french tips. I didn't like the overall look as the chevrons blend in too much with the blue polish so I removed the whole mani this morning. Sometimes a pretty polish really does need to be left alone.
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15 comments:

  1. It's sooo amazing, lovely swatches :)

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  2. Damn that is a gorgeous colour!

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  3. Oh my awesome holo! I love holo, but sadly I have the same 'problem' as you describe at the beginning of your post.

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  4. Such a rich shade of blue, and holo? PERFECTION. <33

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  5. love it with the chevron tips

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  6. Such a stunning blue holo! I only have a few holos in silver, red and purple. I need something more interesting like this shade!!

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  7. Ughhhh I love how you captured this! I own it, and love it, and yet I'm still lusting after it because your photos are just that awesome! hehe.

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