Ludurana - Supremo holographic

You know I haven't done a single Christmas mani yet!  I can't believe Christmas is less than two weeks away.  I've really got to get into some Christmas nails cause I'm seeing so many gorgeous ones on blogs at the moment.

Usually at this time of year at work, things as starting to quieten down and you have a bit of time to stock take on where you are at.  Not this year.  I don't know why it is, but this year there are so many people at work who need stuff finished before the end of the year, and at the moment I just don't see how it's all going to get done.

So at the end of a long and crazy work day, after my littlies are asleep, I love to play with my polish.  It relaxes and unwinds me.

Today's polish is another from the Ludurana Aurora Boreal collection, which can be purchased from llrowe.  This is this prettiest lavender colour holographic polish.  I did three coats here, but only needed two.  I just did three cause that is what I was doing with all these polishes.

So now a quick colour comparison with some other purple/lavender holos.  On the index and pinky are Supremo, on the middle finger is OPI DS Original and on the ring finger in HITS Dionisio.  I've previously compared Dionisio with Ozotic 513 , which is why I didn't include it here.

As you can see, Supremo is more blue toned.  It is also much more opaque than OPI DS Original.

Whoo hoo, another unique holo colour! And no bubbles from this Ludurana holo.

Ludurana - Notável holographic

Back to a holographic today from the Ludurana Aurora Boreal collection.  This is Notável, which translated to English is 'remarkable'. And let me tell you, this polish certainly is remarkable!

Notável is a light grey holographic polish.  It's most definitely not silver, it's a light charcoal.

I love this polish so much.  Great holo effect and smooth application.  No bubbles for me with this one, like the last two I wore.  This was two coats, over Nail Tek II foundation and Seche Vite on top.

This polish really reminded me of one of my absolute all time favourite polishes. China Glaze Lets do it in 3D from the Kaleidoscope collection.  Here is the comparison swatch.  I also put HITS Zeus in there for a comparison, cause it's also a grey holo.

This last shot is in the shade to show the base colours better, without all that holo rainbow getting in the way.  This photo shows the particle size a bit better too, where you can see the larger particles in Let's do it in 3D that make it look speckled.

I love that these Ludurana Aurora Boreal holos aren't just a rehash of the more common holo colours.  Well some of them are (like the silver one) but it sure is nice to be able to get some unique colours too, especially when you have as many holos as I have managed to collect.

Ludurana - Superior

So many new polishes I don't know where to start.  But I had to start somewhere and the sun was out, which means holos!

This is Ludurana Superior from the Aurora Boreal collection.  The collection has six holos and six multichromes.  I'm going to alternate a holo and a multichrome each day.

Superior is a yellow gold holo.  The particles in this look very spectraflairesque. That is, this polish would match in well with the Ozotic holos.

The colour is very simiar to China Glaze L8R G8R from OMG Collection, but the holo effect is completely different.

This was three coats, you could definitely get away with two coats, but I wanted to ensure a nice rich bottle colour for my photos.  Application was smooth and easy, no bald spots, but I did notice that I got a few tiny bubbles as it dried.  I never get bubbles so I'm not sure what that was about.  A coat of Seche Vite quicky covered the bubbles and also didn't dull the holo effect.  

I got this polish from a swap, but you can purchase through llarowe.

Chemistry 517

Today I'm showing you Chemistry 517.  Recently piCture pOlish got 517 in stock in the Ozotic range, but as I had this version, I didn't need the other.  This is supposedly the green holo, but it is such a pastel green that it is almost a silver holo.  I have previously posted about Artform 517 too, which again is another dupe - although no longer name under that name.  I believe Glitter Gal Holographic Green is a dupe too.



While the green in this is a little disappointing, the holo certainly isn't.  It's super holoy goodness at it's best this one! It's very sheer too, so you could use this as a holo top coat over other polishes.

Indoors below you can see that even with three coats there was still VNL.

I gave my nails a file down this morning. The left hand that is, the
right hand is still nubbin city.  I finally feel like I have found the right length for my nails.  It's funny, I look back at some of my
earlier blog posts and look at the length of my nails and think they are
ridiculously long.  So now my nails are a mm or two shorter than they
are in these pics.

Ozotic 527

I mentioned this polish yesterday, when I commented about how spectacular these Ozotic holographic nail polishes are, except so far for one - and this is it.  Ozotic 527 is a very sheer pale pink.  

It is listed on the piCtute pOlish website with all the other Ozotic holographic polishes, but seriously, if you buy this thinking it will be anything like the other polishes in the 500 series you will be sorely disappointed.  And it's not just my bottle either, I had a comment from a lovely follower Kristine who thought her bottle might be a dud, but nope, they are all duds are far as I'm concerned.

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Here is a macro to show just how little holographic pigment there is in this polish.

This was three coats, with a Seche Vite top coat.  

This polish might make a nice change to a regular sheer pink if you were doing a french polish, but that is about all I think I would use it for.  As far as calling this a holographic polish, it simply is not.   

Chemistry 525

Have you ever bought a polish totally sight unseen?  I did with this polish.  I purely bought it cause it's number was in the 500 series, which meant it should be another linear holographic in the whole Ozotic/Chemistry range.  I had no idea what colour it was, I just picked the number and went with it.  Actually I did this with a few of my Chemistry polishes because the colour chart was terrible.

Chemistry 525 is a very pale frosty pink with some holographic particles.  Eeeeewwwh, I hear some of you say, I hate frosty polishes, there so 1980's.  You know what?  I actually don't hate this like I thought I would when I saw the bottle.  It's so pale, it's almost white and it has a nice pearlesent appearance, particularly indoors.

Here I managed to capture the very sparse holo particles.  See they are there!

What this polish looks like most of the time.

Sure, this polish is a bit of a let down, especially when compared to the other holographics, but it's still nice, and I think it's much nicer that 527 which I will show you very soon.

Ozotic 515

Hi followers, you've grown so big, where did you all come from?

I discovered today that piCture pOlish have stopped giving the Ozotic polishes additional names.  They used to list other names for all their multichromes and holographics. Examples were:

511 = Reddish

516 = Jive

518 = Flame

503 = Rainforest

502 = Sands

And then there were the dreadful Twilight (504) and Eclipse (505) names - come on, something original please.  Where did these names come from?  But the good thing is they are back to just using the regular numbers.  I usually don't like polishes referred to by numbers, but I like it for these polishes because then I can easily identify the duplicates in the Chemistry or Artform polishes.

With that said, here is beautiful number 515.  A medium aqua toned blue, small particle linear holographic.

Picture Polish only recently restocked this one, and just in time too.  I was going to grab the Chemistry version as soon as they restocked, but because the Ozotic version was in stock first, I grabbed it..  I do still have some of my Artform bottle left (swatched here), but my mum and I both love this polish and wear it quite often, so a back up is definitely warranted. 

The above photo was taken indoors, with no artificial light, just a bit of light from the window, and you can still see the rainbow there on the nail.

This was three coats, no base, topped with Seche Vite.  

Both this, and it's large particle twin (617) are a very beautiful pair of polishes.

Ozotic 511

Because it was raining this morning, I started to code up my Ozotic/Chemistry colour guide and realised that I still had so many colors that I had to swatch and post.  Then I got side tracked doing house work *yay* until all of a sudden the sun came out. Its meant to rain all this week, so I dropped what I was doing and starting doing my nails instead.

First on was Ozotic 511, which is a hot pink, small particle linear holo.  I have previously posted a swatch of my Artform 511, but as that bottle is half empty I bought an Ozotic version. I had to make sure they were identical, and yes they are.

Sorry, no witty chit chat tonight, in fact no dull chit chat either.  Holo spam is all you get.

Silver Holo Comparisions & Ozotic 509

With my most recent Ozotics purchased from piCture pOlish I finally got 509.  I had missed the Artform version and I was waiting for Essential Beauty to restock so I could get Chemistry 509. It was the only gap I had in my Ozotic/Artfom/Chemistry holographic collection!

509 is the Silver holo. Very sheer, but buildable.  This was three coats, no base, Seche Vite top coat.  These fine particle linear Ozotic holos are just so easy to apply, smooth, no dragging or bald patches, and you can happily apply a fast drying top coat and it wont dull the effect.

What else can make a holo better?  SUNSHINE.  For what is usually our coldest month, we have just experienced three of the most magnificent sunny day's with temps above 20 degrees.  I was actually hot outside yesterday! 

I thought I would take a indoor, no artificial light picture, to show the silvery white appearance of this polish.  But as soon as any light is on around this, it rainbows up.

Ok, now a silver holo comparison to end all comparisons.  I have to say, that on my little sticks, these don't look as holoy as they do on the nail.  I know some of them look great, but others look rather crapola, but for example, take a look at the fourth from the left, that is the same polish as above. So that just shows that the sticks only give an indication of colour and holoiness.  

I lined these up from left to right with small particle holos on the left and large particle or scattered holos on the right.

Now just to list these out for the search engines, from left to right:

Gosh Holographic, Nfu Oh 61, China Glaze OMG, Ozotic 509, Ozotic 514,Vintage Ozotic 509, Color Club Worth the Risque, China Glaze Sexagon, China Glaze Visit me in Prism, Milani HD and Stuf. glo glo.

Same line up, with no sun.  It was only when the sun went behind the cloud that I realised I had included two ring-ins which don't strictly belong with the silver holos.  Those two being Ozotic/Artform/Chemistry 514 (5th from left) which is actually a platinum gold, and China Glaze Visit me in Prism (4th from right) which has a mauve base.

Now some up close shots.

If anyone wants to see some comparisons on the nail, let me know.

Do you think I have enough silver holos?  It's obscene that one person should have this many, I know, but their mine I tell you. Mine. Mwahhaa haa haa haa.

Ozotic 524

Back to my Ozotic swatches today with one of the more interesting colours in the range.   Now when I say interesting, I mean it's weird. Ozotic 524 is a brown frost polish with fine holographic particles.  There doesn't seem to be enough holo particles in this to classify it as a linear holo, and the holo looks much stronger in the bottle than on the nail.

It's such an odd combination, Mr Frosty McFrostyworthy and Miss Fairy Flutterpants had a love child called Ozotic 524.

This is what it looks like most of the time indoors.  I actually rather like the colour.  It's neutral and calm and office appropriate.  So unlike the other loud and in your face Ozotic Pro holographic polishes.

I had a super duper break on my right index finger today, one where it comes off below the nail bed and you end up with a thin squishy bit of nail at the tip. At least my left photo hand is still good.

Ozotic 617

Ahhh, the tranquility. Mr Three and Miss Six months are both currently haivng a middle of the day sleep. So a perfect time for a real quick blog post.

The pretty on my nails right now is Ozotic 617.  A rich aqua marine blue with large holographic particles.

No base, three coats, no top coat.  It really only needs two coats, but I felt better with three cause I didn't have a base on, and it dries so fast that three coats isn't an isue.

Another very sparkly one, especially in the sun, but OK indoors too.  Another 8/10 on my holo-a-meter for this.

I'm going to enjoy a quiet day today, as I'm still recovering from working in the yard moving very large piles of mulch (and we have more to do on the weekend). We had a mobile mulcher guy come and mulch up a whole stack of tree prunings as well as two massive pine trees, one of which fell down across our driveway a few weeks back in strong wind storms.  How'd ya like this big tree in your driveway when you got home?  Luckily our driveway has two entrances.

Gotta love those SES guys who came and chopped it out of the way for us.  You guys ROCK!