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Holothon: a bit of Hocus Pocus

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Nothing for ages and then two posts in one day. It must be a public holiday here! (It is).

I follow a stack of nail polish blogs and these days, since becoming the proud mama of an iPad, I follow by RSS feed using River of News. Its such an easy way of reading all the blogs I enjoy in the one place. Whilst catching up on my reading this morning, I came across Inky Polisholicious’s post about a holoographic polish challenge entitled Holothon so without waiting for an invitation I decided to join in:)

I love a good holographic polish or glitter as much as the next lacquerhead and since getting the polish bug I’ve aquired quite a few so this challenge seemed like a good opportunity to try out a few of them. Again this challenge is my sort of challenge because it isn’t an epic everyday affair but rather it’s up to us how often we post. So I’ll be aiming to post at least once or twice a week which for me will be quite a lift in frequency:).

Anyway on to the polish. I’m a lazy lacquerhead so I opted to give Girly Pits Hocus Pocus a try. Hocus Pocus is a silver holo and I reckon it could be used on its own since it is quite opaque but I gather that it is kind of intended more as a top coat. Now for the lazy bit – I opted to use Hocus Pocus as a top coat.

Girly Bits Hocus Pocus

Girly Bits Hocus Pocus

Girly Bits Hocus Pocus

Girly Bits Hocus Pocus

This is one coat of Girly Bits Hocus Pocus layered over my existing mani. No top coat. It’s quite a strong holo which is why I think you’d only need a couple of coats for an opaque mani by itself. In the bottle it looks a wee bit more subdued than your typical silver holographic polish.

The existing mani that I layered this over is two coats of YLS Bleu Majorelle with a base coat of OPI Matte Envy and a top coat of Seche Vite. Bleu Majorelle is such a gorgeous polish. I bought it on eBay during a crazy blue period I went through a couple of months ago. YSL like Dior have the fabulous flat shaped brush which combined with the great formula makes for very easy application. I’ve been wearing Bleu Majorelle for the last couple of days which for me is unusual since I’ve been changing my polish almost daily of late but with Bleu Majorelle I simply didn’t want to take it off. The edges near my cuticles are a bit untidy because I didn’t clean up before applying Seche Vite which I did in a real hurry since we were running later for dinner at a friends’s place. Here’s a pic of it before I added Hocus Pocus (excuse the scratching and the tip wear:).

YSL Bleu Majorelle

 

EDIT: I think there’s something a wee bit strange going on with my inlinkz text below as it only shows myself and the lovely girls at Inky Polisholiscious who organised this challenge. However, I know that there are a number of others doing this challenge whose links are not showing up below for some reason. You can get to them, however, by following Inky Polisholiscious link. I’ve tried to correct it but I’m at a loss as to what is going wrong:(


Pretty Serious Tux: seriously gorgeous

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Fancy the look of sleek, smoothest, darkest teal satin on your nails? Then look no further than Pretty Serious Tux.

Pretty Serious Tux

Tux is one of six polishes released by beauty blogger and B-movie fanatic and reviewer, Kaz of Pretty Random as part of her newly launched cosmetic brand, Pretty Serious. Each of the six shades of polish has a corresponding eye shadow and lip gloss.

Now I’m not into make up in a big way at all, as odd as that might sound for someone who loves nail polish. I’m a girl that has her eye lashes tinted and brows shaped once every four weeks so I can pretty much slap on moisturiser in the morning and be ready to face the day. So I didn’t indulge myself by purchasing any of the shadows or glosses. I did, however, end up going the whole hog and bought all six polishes, despite not originally meaning to. Ooops!

Tux though was one of the three colours that I had intended to buy. I’d been on the look out for a really dark, dark green polish for a while. I’d bought a few from China Glaze but they were not dark enough. I’d been eyeing off YSL  Wintergreen but hadn’t found it online to buy. So when I saw Tux my heart leapt. Well, ok maybe not quite ‘leapt’ because after all we’re just talking polish here but you know what I mean. I got that little lacquerhead rush of excitement that demands you grab the debit card and hit the web.

Pretty Serious Tux

Pretty Serious Tux

In terms of formula, Tux is lovely to apply. No issues whatsoever. This is two coats but you could almost get away with one careful coat. I only tend to wear any polish for 2-3 days maximum, and this made it to the third day before I was hankering for something else. But other than some tip wear it did well. It also didn’t stain my nails which I had half expected it might given the darkness of colour. I’ve now worn this one several times, I like it that much, and am still yet to try the other five polishes from Pretty Serious. But I will drag myself away from Tux in the interests of research:)

If you haven’t come across Kaz and her line of cosmetics yet then I urge you to go have a look. From memory the polishes are about AUD$10 but Kaz offers discounts for certain combinations of product purchases, e.g. I got 10% off for purchasing all six polishes which was pretty lovely of her. She ships internationally though I’m not sure of the cost. Domestic Australian shipping was about AUD$7.

So darkest of dark teal/green lemming satisfied and I’m a happy little Tux-wearing Vegemite:)

Have you tried any of Kaz’s products yet? What’s your position on green polish generally?

Pretty Serious Tux

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