Holo watercolor nails

 

For more than 30 years Herôme has been the leader in hand- and nail care.

In the Netherlands that is.

The quality of their products is very good and they are medium priced.

Herôme: "Our approach is solid research and live up to what our products promise."

They also have a wide range of gorgeous nail polish colors.

And as I'm writing this I'm asking myself why I don't have more by this brand???

 

When I was shop hopping through local stores I found a store selling some Herôme mini nail lacquers (4ml).

The lightening in that store was horrible: I had trouble seeing which color I was holding.

There were some mini bottles which looked like plain silver lacquers but when holding one really close it looked like it had some shattered holo in it.

Well...you should know by now that I'm crazy for holo's so I grabbed two (just in case it turned out to be holo), one for me and one for my "growing give away".

 

And today I'm going to show you this mini lacquer by Herôme.

Good things come from Holland :D

 

Swatches Herôme mini nail lacquer (4ml) #314

 

 

OMG and this is going to be in my give away as well!

 

I'm in love again :D

 

Now, I wasn't really feeling it to make a nail art today.

We finally have some Summer weather again and I just wanted to enjoy it with my hubby and kids.

I chose for something really simple and done before (but not with holo).

I got this idea from Glitter.Gloss.Garbage

I used the OPI Sheer Tints to make the watercolor effect.

Using the regular polish brushes and randomly placing the colors on the nails.

 

 

The picture doesn't even do it justice!

I want to have this nail art on for...like forever :D

 

Holo animal print nails

Thanks to +Kathleen Coultes I discovered I had never really done a holo gradient.

Which is weird because I love holo's and gradients.

 

I grabbed as many holo polishes as I could and decided it was a perfect opportunity to use some untried as well.

 

I've started by applying the lightest colors on the nails:

 

 

Polishes used (from left to right):

- Catrice Limited Edition Haute Future C03 iROSEdescent

- Catrice Limited Edition HOLOMANIA C04 Plum Me Up Scotty

- Catrice Limited Edition Haute Future C01 Eletrix Blue

- KOH Colours! 127 Metallic Green!

 

Looking at the above image I think it's fair to say that KOH by far has the strongest holo.

Application is much harder though and it also requires more coats.

 

After I made these nails I got the tip to only sponge one color onto the background colors but in this case I've sponged both colors onto the background.

I'm not sure if it will make a huge difference colorwise but it sure is easier application wise.

 

 

It was a rainy day and I had to take the pictures inside.

The above image was actually the best I could get :(

But gosh these were so pretty in the sun.

 

Polishes used at the tip side (from top to bottom):

- Layla Hologram Effect 03 Retro Pink

- Color Club 999 Eternal Beauty

- Layla Hologram Effect 07 Ocean Rush

- Catrice Limited Edition HOLOMANIA C03 Holo In One

 

For the nail art I decided to go with animal prints

I've used a detail brush and black acrylic paint to make the designs.

 

 

 

Blue holo flower nail art

I actually didn't want to do a nail art today.

For two reasons:

1) I'm not feeling very well :(

2) This polish doesn't need anything

 

Let's start with the polish.

This is my first Indie polish and it is from the Netherlands...yay!

Thanks to another blog...don't know the name anymore because I was on a huge Google/blog search for Dutch Indies :-/

I finally found Big City Nails

And ordered 3 beautiful polishes.

 

Today I show you "The sky is the limit"

 

 

Are you seeing the gorgeous holo glitter already?!

 

 

I love the bottle top. It's like a giant "The sky is the limit" gemstone.

In fact every nail polish bottle should contain this...don't you agree?

 

 

The hand written polish name...definitely Indie and personal :D

Oah and a little peek of the polish on the nails.

 

Here are some more swatches:

This picture is taken in the shade

 

This picture is taken in sunlight (but we didn't have much today).

 

The sky is the limit is a clear polish filled with a great amount of blue and holo glitters.

Pictures above are 3 coats and 1 coat of Seche Vite topcoat.

With the first coat I wasn't sure if I could get this polish opaque but it built up very quickly with the next coats and also dried a lot faster than other glitter polishes.

There wasn't much sunlight today but when this polish hits the light...ahum...breathtaking.

I bought it for €6,95 ($9,54)

For sure a polish and webshop I can recommend.

 

For the nail art I only did a simple flower on the accent nail.

 

 

Polishes used:

- Big City Nails - The sky is the limit

- Layla Holgram Effect 07 Ocean Rush

- Maybelline Color Show 661 Ocean Blue

- China Glaze 544 Liquid Leather