Updated Holo Top Coats

Hello, my friends.  I hop you are doing good and life is going good.  Mine has been sad this week. On Thursday I went with Mom to send her sweet therapy dog, Gracie, to the Rainbow Bridge. It was so sad.  She had bone cancer and went down really fast, sigh.  She was such a good dog.  I feel for my Mom, it sucks.  Mom did say that in about two weeks she will start looking for a new companion pupper. I'll have some Gracie nails soon.

Today I decided to finally do something I've had sitting for a while, my holo top coat comparison post.  I originally did one back in February 2015, you can find that one here: http://musingswithmelly.blogspot.com/2015/02/holo-top-coat-comparison.html

I have acquired a few more since then and purged one or two from last time.  Some of these you can still get, others maybe not (sorry about that).  If they are easy to get I've put an asterik behind the name and where you can find it  I love holo top coats, they are so darn pretty and add so much pretty to any polish :)  Hope you enjoy this fun sparkle on this cloudy and cold Sunday, arrrrgh...Spring is never coming this year :)

Here they are all on one wheel, look at all that pretty :)

Here's the list of names in order:
1. ILNP - My Private Rainbow (Scattered) * website
2. ILNP - My Private Rainbow (Linear) * website
3. ILNP - My Private Rainbow (Linear & Scattered) * website
4. Pretty & Polished Halo T/C * website
5. Fair Maiden - Glory of the Galaxy *? website
6. Indigo Bananas - Rainbow All the Things * website
7. Fair Maiden - Chasing Rainbows * ? website
8. Indigo Bananas - SF35 Top Coat * website
9. Fair Maiden - Fairy Godmother * website
10. Starlight Polish - Starlight * Etsy
11. Stardust Polish - Holy Holo * Etsy
12. KB Shimmer - Prism Break * website
13. Pacifica - Gloss Rainbow Top Coat * Ulta
14. Glorious - Spectraflair Topcoat #35 * website
15. CBL - Lather & Lace *? website
16. Piggy Polish - Lunar Halo N/A
17. Finger Paints - Holographic Top Coat N/A

The ones on this wheel above:
1. ILNP - My Private Rainbow (Scattered) * website
2. ILNP - My Private Rainbow (Linear) * website
3. ILNP - My Private Rainbow (Linear & Scattered) * website
4. Pretty & Polished Halo T/C * website
5. Fair Maiden - Glory of the Galaxy *? website
6. Indigo Bananas - Rainbow All the Things * website
7. Fair Maiden - Chasing Rainbows * ? website
8. Indigo Bananas - SF35 Top Coat * website

The ones on the wheel above:
4. Pretty & Polished Halo T/C * website
5. Fair Maiden - Glory of the Galaxy *? website
6. Indigo Bananas - Rainbow All the Things * website
7. Fair Maiden - Chasing Rainbows * ? website
8. Indigo Bananas - SF35 Top Coat * website
9. Fair Maiden - Fairy Godmother * website
10. Starlight Polish - Starlight * Etsy
11. Stardust Polish - Holy Holo * Etsy

And the last wheel above:
10. Starlight Polish - Starlight * Etsy
11. Stardust Polish - Holy Holo * Etsy
12. KB Shimmer - Prism Break * website
13. Pacifica - Gloss Rainbow Top Coat * Ulta
14. Glorious - Spectraflair Topcoat #35 * website
15. CBL - Lather & Lace *? website
16. Piggy Polish - Lunar Halo N/A
17. Finger Paints - Holographic Top Coat N/A

Whew, that was a long post today.  I'm going to keep the rest short.  Have a great rest of the weekend and good beginning of the week.  I'm going to chill today and watch some cheesy shark movies, I love them!!!  I'll talk to you soon!  I leave you with my cutie patootie, Miss Betty, cuddled by my sister, Tina, one night :)

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Holo Candy Sprinkles & Holo Top Coat #12

Happy Friday Eve,


Tomorrow is Friday, yay!  Going to my parents after work tomorrow.  I didn't go last night since my back and hips were really hurting.  I came home last night and soaked in a hot bath.  Today wasn't as bad.  It's the weather changing making it worse right now.  It's crazy how weather and temperatures have such an effect on your body.  

Today I have the last holo top coat in my holo series.  This one is actually a bonus one that I found and forgot I had put it not with the other top coats in my one wall rack, found this one in my tray I have some random and overflow polish that doesn't fit in my polish racks.  So, I have 12 holo top coats in total.  I don't need any more.  I have them from sparse to dense to somewhere in the middle.  I like having those different options for my top coats.  

This is Indigo Bananas "Rainbow ALL The Things" (indie polish). This one is just a big less gray and dense than the other Indigo Bananas top coat I have, "SF 35".  I used a base of Orly Bonder, two coats of China Glaze "One Track Mind" on all nails, then I used China Glaze "At Vase Value", China Glaze "Shocking Pink" and Finger Paints "Spun Sugar" and used a nail art brush to paint the sprinkles on my accent nails. When they were done, I put one coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" on top of my accent nails and one coat of Indigo Bananas "Rainbow ALL The Things" on the rest, then one coat of Seche Vite Quick Dry on all nails to finish. I love, love, love these nails and pastel sprinkles are cute :) 

 

 

 

 

 

  Polishes Used:

Bonder, China Glaze "At Vase Value", China Glaze "Shocking Pink", Finger Paints "Spun Sugar", Indigo Bananas "Rainbow ALL The Things", Seche Vite Quick Dry

The nail art brush I used and the cardboard that I use to put polish on to do the sprinkles

One Track Mind on it's own.  I love dark blues like this, they are pretty.

That is my last mani in this series.  I enjoyed doing this.  It was fun a great way to get all those polishes worn.  Tomorrow night I'll do my final wrap with these top coats.

In other news, there's a new cat that's been coming around the last few days.  I think he's about 7 or 8 months old and a bit feral, so, he'll need some patience and love.  Here's what I wrote on FaceCrack about him earlier tonight and the pic I got thru our kitchen window.  

"So, last Fall one night only, I saw this cat in our yard. It ran then out of the yard, hadn't seen it since and then the last two evenings, I hear this howling, yowling, not Little Shit's crying for Mom and Bill still, little cat, got this ghostly picture of it thru the kitchen window, so, the weekend I will try to catch him/her, although with that whiny howling, we suspect a boy, lol. Anywhos, then catch, get fixed, shots, etc, then either find him a home if he's adoptable or he'll be Little Shit's bud since Mr. Kitty came in. He's got huge ears that go on for years, years and years, he's cute, the howling brat!"

We shall see what happens with this kitty.  Of course I'll update too.

I'll talk to you all soon, soon XOXO
 
Melly 

Holo Top Coat #11

Hey guys, 

Hope today is seeing you all well and happy.  I am really hurting tonight with my arthritis and in a lot of pain in my hips and back from the rain and damp we are having, so, that sucks, but, I am not unhappy and that's what's important.  It sucks to be in pain but, it could be way worse and as for the rain, I'll take it cuz' it's not snow, ice or cold. March sure has "come in like a lion", so, it darn well better go "out like a lamb", dang it!  Bring on the warm!!!

 My nails today have my ILNP "My Private Rainbow" (linear version) (indie polish) on them.  This is a very, very sparse and subtle linear holo, so, it doesn't have a strong rainbow effect at all, more just a silver/gray base that you can barely see in these pics.  This polish is meh, my least favorite of them.  I like the more linear rainbow look instead of this, but, I will use this again, just not very often, it's just too subtle and not rainbow enough for me.  Don't mind the black cat hair in a few of these, didn't realize there was a kitty hair, oh well, story of my life.  Nothing we own does not have at least one cat on it, lol :)

I started with a base of Orly Bonder, then two coats of Sally Hansen Salon Manicure "Madame X" on all nails, then I fan brushed first Fresh Paints "Guava" then Snowman Orchid then Fresh Paints "Honeydew" on my accent nails, then one coat of ILNP on all nails, then one coat of Seche Vite Quick Dry on all nails.  To do fan brush nails, put some lip chap on the skin around the nails that you want to brush, then paint the bristles of the brush, then paint the polish onto the nails.  Clean up any polish on the skin with acetone using a small makeup brush or makeup q-tips. Clean your brush with acetone too after you are done so it doesn't get funky.  I love fan brush nails, just need to work on making my brush strokes more even, either way I like the look of them.  They kinda remind me of the surfaces of Jupiter and Saturn, just in these colors and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE space, the universe, astronomy, galaxies, the stars, it's all so glittery and pretty, yay, so much glitter in the universe :))

                                                                   Polishes Used

Bonder, Sally Hansen Salon "Madame X", Fresh Paint "Guava" and "Honeydew", orchid snowman, ILNP "My Private Rainbow", Seche 

The fan brush I used.

Madame X on it's own.  I love this red, it's a nice red. 

I have just one more holo top coat to use and I will maybe do my nails at my parents tomorrow night when I spend the night, not sure if I will tho' or not, but, I'll get that last one up by the end of the week I am sure.  I am having fun doing this and have a couple other little series thought out in my head.  Talk to you all soon!  

I leave you with my baby bear kitty, Miss Betty, she's my baby girl.  I posted this about her with these pics on FaceCrack tonight and here it is for you too ;) Yay for Betty!!!

" Happiness is coming home to this every day!  Miss Betty just melts me every single day with her love and devotion to me. All the cats are happy when I get home, but, Miss Betty, she's just ecstatic when Mommy gets home. In the mornings she doesn't want me to leave and it is hard to leave this face, that it is! Look at that face, she is so cute and such a purring cuddle snuggle love bug. I love this little cat so much. I never thought I'd have another Barney and I do have the female version of him with Betty. She makes me so happy, this little girl of mine."

Isn't she just the cutest little cat?  That face, I can't take that cute some days, lol.  She melts me, she really does :) 

Polish, Purrs & Hugs, 

Melly 

Holo Top Coat #10

It's Monday, 

Hope your Monday was okay, mine was typical Monday, long and trying, but, I got thru it, LOL! Watching Bates Motel and then Better Call Saul, then off to bed for me.  It always takes me a little bit to adjust to the time change and I am sleepy those first few days after we "spring ahead".  But, Spring is only 11 days away, yay, it was in the 40's here today, sunny and nice out.  I even got to take the kitties out in the backyard for a bit after work today since it was so nice.  They enjoyed it for sure.

Today I have ILNP "My Private Rainbow", the scattered and linear version.  This is an indie made polish also. This one has both scattered and linear microglitter in it, it's pretty, not really dense, but, I like it for a more subtle sparkle.  I used a base of Orly Bonder, then two coats of China Glaze "Purr-fect Plum" on all nails, then I painted one coat of China Glaze "Laced Up" on my accent nails, then took a piece of wrinkled up plastic wrap and dabbed my nails to make the mottled/marbled look.  I then painted one coat of China Glaze "Spring In My Step" on my accents and did the same dabbing with plastic wrap for the second color.  I then put a coat of ILNP "My Private Rainbow" on all nails, then finished up with one coat of Seche Vite Quick Dry on all nails.  

To do this technique, paint your base color, let dry, then paint one coat of color onto the first nail you want to do this on.  As soon as you paint that coat, take a piece of balled up plastic wrap and dab the polish with the plastic.  Use a light touch or you will pick up too much polish.  Do one nail at a time so the polish is wet when you dab it.  Use a brush/q-tip and acetone to clean up any polish that gets on your skin around your nails.  I love this technique also, it's easy to do and looks really cool too.  You can do however many colors you want, I like to use 2 to 3, I used two polishes here. I like them.   

 

 

                                                            Polishes Used

Bonder, China Glaze "Purr-fect Plum", China Glaze "Laced Up", China Glaze "Spring In My Step", ILNP "My Private Rainbow", Seche Vite Fast Dry

                                                         

                                         Before I put the holo top coat on.  These colors I really do like
                                         together, they look really pretty.                                  

Purr-fect Plum on it's own, a nice deep berry shade.  I love these vampy colors, always have, always will.

That's it for tonight, it's Monday, I am sleepy and my shows are on now.  Talk to you later on this week.  I only have two more holo top coats to show.  I'll get them done this week I hope.

Buster and Betty say, "Nighty, Night, Sleepy tight, meow."

Betty and Buster

 Polish & Purrs,


Melly 

Holo Top Coat #9

Hola Friends,

Hope you all had a great weekend.  I had a good one, last night some friends came over, we ate dinner, hung out and had a good time.  I am sleepy tho', stayed up too late this weekend, was having a hard time falling asleep, not sure why.  

We sprung ahead this weekend with the clocks and now it's 7:30-ish and it's still a little light out, yay and it was in the 40's today, sunny and felt like Summer, lol.  So happy that warm and nice weather is on it's way.  It's also Walking Dead night too, yay!  I caught four different horse movies this weekend too, that was nice.  I do love me some horse movies for sure.  Horses are great.  

On to the nails.  I had done my blobbicure yesterday and then ended up taking it off and doing my nails again with this holo, then this morning I decided to do my nails again, so, I painted my nails three times this weekend, lol.  I have just a couple more of my holo top coats to show yet and want to get them done by the middle of this week.  That's my goal anyways.

This one is Glorious "SF 35 Top Coat" (indie polish), made by a girl right here in Camp Hill, PA actually, which is just across the river from where I live in the city, so, I was really happy to be able to support such a close by indie polish maker, yay :) This one is one of my favorites since it does really give a strong linear holo and still keeps the base color showing very nicely.

I started with a base of Orly Bonder, then two coats of OPI "Do You Lilac It?" on all nails, then I used my dotting tool and did dots on my accent nails with no name ice cream pink polish and Ornaments Rhinestone pink and blue, I then did one coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" on top of the dots on my accents, then did one coat of Glorious SF 35 on the rest, then finished with one coat of Seche Vite Quick Dry top coat.  I love dotticures so much and dotting tools are easy to use also and every polish peep should have a set of dotting tools, you really can do some fun easy nail art with them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                              Polishes Used

OPI "Do You Lilac It?", Ornament Rhinestone blue & pink, no name ice cream pink, China Glaze "Fairy Dust", Glorious SF 35 Top Coat

The dotting tools I used and the piece of cardboard I use to put polish on to dip the tool in for dotting

Do You Lilac It? I love all purples in this shade.

That's it for today.  I'll post the next holo tomorrow night.  Have a great rest of the weekend and Happy Walking Dead Day, Yay!

I'll leave you with my pretty Princess Pebbles in a box when she was a kitten.  She was so cute in this box all the time.  I love my little princess, she's a good girl!

Isn't she just so cute in the box.  She's long since outgrown that box, lol.

Purrs & Polish,

Melly