So, I only have one linear holo (holo tacos fifty shades of greige) and I love it! I've been really wanting more colors but also not wanting to spend the money. Then I had the idea to layer my L.A. Colors jellies over my holo! This has scratched the itch for now, and I wanted to share it🥰

1st swatch Holo taco Fifty shades of greige (by itself)

2nd swatch Holo taco greige + L.A. Colors Oasis

3rd swatch Holo taco greige + L.A. Colours Green Tea

I am eyeballing EDM written invitations. Do I need another purple? What is your favorite purple? Or feel free to talk me down since my space is very limited, so I want to carefully select my nail polishes.

I am a sucker of purple nail polishes though. When I am wearing purple, I cannot stop looking at them. The purples I currently have:

ILNP Drive-in

ILNP Tilted

Cracked Polish Vamped Vanity

BKL Earth Sunderer

PFD Boo Berry (just placed an order)

I love polishes with shimmers!💖 (The other nail polish in the photo is ILNP Bluebell)

Yes, House of Hades and Cock-A-Doodle Doom are amazing and breath-taking. This thread is for the polishes that, when you search the subreddit, no one has ever mentioned or posted a swatch photo of. Maybe it was only sold for a month in 2012 and everyone's forgotten about it, or it was overshadowed by other polishes in a release, or it's from a brand that isn't a subreddit favourite. I want to see hear about the unsung heroes of your polish collection! Bonus points for swatch photos or links that show the polish.

Right now, mine are:

• Bluebird Lacquer's Ornament to Be (link to a Caitlin Swatches video) - This just reminds me of a winter day where the sun is shining straight overhead and reflecting off the snow and there are flurries all around you.

• Wildflower Lacquer's Angel - It's just the perfect peachy/copper/browny colour that is somehow muted and vibrant at the same time. Also it was a tribute to Scarlet, the owner's dog who passed away.

• Cirque's Mellow Yellow - A yellow to orange thermal. I layer it over a white to get the colours to pop (otherwise I feel like the yellow looks a little dingy on me) but it's just so bright and cheerful and I always want to put it on.

So tell me about yours and why it rocks your world!

Here's a swatch wheel full of Fairy Dust, Pixie Party, Bluebell, and Flower Child 🧚‍♀️🌸✨️ They came out in two different collections but are now sold together as one bundle on the ILNP site. Here's hoping ILNP continues to release more... 👀

This finish is beautiful on its own of course, but also makes a wonderfully versatile topper! Here I've tested one coat over black, indigo, burgundy, and beige. I think my personal favorite is Pixie Party over indigo, but I would wear any of these combos! What do you think?

The base crèmes used here are Orly Shaky Alibi, Painted Polish Midnight Mischief, Holo Taco Indigo Away, and Orly Opulent Obsession. I'm wearing Starrily Guardian, Orly Shaky Alibi, OPI Dutch Tulips, and KBShimmer Clearly On Top. And I think that's all but please do ask away if I forgot something 😊

Of course these are not dupes. Everything color is completely different and it is totally reasonable that I have them in my collection. /s

Bonus points if you can identify the two fingers that have the exact same color on them.

I posted a swatch wheel of Fairy Dust as a topper over various cremes yesterday as it was something I was looking for when debating what to order over Black Friday. I figured it didn't hurt to post the swatch wheels I made of the Holo Taco Unicorn Skins, too, in case someone is looking for something like it down the line. I know there are a lot more swatches of this available, but I found it helpful anytime I saw a post with multiple color comparisons in the same lighting conditions.

All are one coat of the respective unicorn skin over two coats of the base color. The photos are in the comments.

The base colors are as follows starting at the top and moving clockwise:

1. Holo Taco One-Coat Black
2. Sally Hansen White Tea
3. Zoya Cala
4. Sally Hansen Hurry Plum
5. Zoya Perrie
6. Color Club Pucci-licious
7. Sally Hansen Purplexed
8. Zoya Sailor
9. Color Club Take A Chill Pill
10. Color Club Martian, Martian, Martian!
11. Zoya Neely
12. Zoya Darcy
13. Zoya Thandie
14. Zoya America
15. Zoya Alyssa
16. Zoya Flynn
17. Duri Don't Think Twice
18. Zoya Kelly

I was dealing with a suuuper old ORLY breathable color that was both thin and goopy somehow?? Also it was a mini so basically impossible to handle the tiny brush.

Just one coat of Seche Vive Instant Gel Effect ERASED my FINGERPRINT and a lot of the other imperfections. Couldn't fix my sloppy application and dry skin though lol, I tried to clean it up.

I'm going for mannequin nails, and this color is a little off. What's wrong with it? Too light/dark? Too warm/cool? It's like I go blind when I'm trying to figure it out.

The white balance is different between the pictures unfortunately /:

ILNP daybreak has to be one of my biggest disappointments. It was so so so beige and not at all like the swatches on their website when I wore it. I wanted it to be more pink!! So I added literally three drops of red polish to it and I think it 1) looks closer to the website version and 2) might be something I’ll actually wear! Left is my remixed daybreak and right was the original color I received.

I finally got around to swatching my collection and evidently, I have a type. We’re all going to agree to ignore the dirty windowsill in favor of the eye catching polishes, okay?

From left to right:

ILNP Birefringence - this one leans slightly more blue than the others.

ILNP Hush - the teal is slightly darker than the others.

KB Shimmer No Illusions - probably my favorite. It’s the perfect blend of teal, purple, and blue.

Holo Taco Missed-Shift - leans a bit more green than the others. The green is also more green than teal.

Currently on my thumbnail that you can see is KBShimmer Hidden Potential.

I saw someone on Instagram do this and I immediately ran to my swatches. I feel like I have a whole new color catalog from my current collection!

The reverse effect was easy to do, although some polishes would probably require a dry coat or crème polish underneath to help with opacity (see close-up of Moonlit as an example).

The swatches marked with “R” are what I did as a reverse velvet, and no marking is a regular velvet effect. I’ve shown the magnet alignment with Devil’s Ivy and Fairy Floss.

Colors used from left to right in Pic 1:

1. Mooncat: Devil’s Ivy.

2. Mooncat: Milennia.

3. ILNP: Moonlit.

4. ILNP: Shooting Star.

5. ILNP: Amped

6. Starrily: Fairy Floss.

7. ILNP: Be Mine

Pic 1 is my swatch, pic 2 is my bottle and pic 3 is the website picure.

I saw it in person so I knew what I was buying, but I was so confused when I looked it up! My bottle is a pearly white with the slightest hint of pink and the picture on ORLY's website is very clearly pink.

Does anyone else have this polish? Is my bottle missing pigment, or maybe faded? I honestly like it a lot more than the more pink version though!

(UK based) I’m slowly building my own personal collection of gel polishes. Just for myself as I like having bright nails. All of these are CandyCoat. But what am missing? What would be a valuable addition to my collection?

I’m looking for some clear toppers with glowy shimmer à la EDM Key Drama and I’m impressed with Abomination’s frost topper shade range, and the brand in general seems really great.

If anyone has any of these I’d love to see them on a bare nail or over a color that isn’t black! I feel like toppers are so often shown over black but I pretty much never wear dark nail colors so it’s not very helpful for me haha.

Pics are of the Midnight, Citrus, Raspberry, and Glacier Frost toppers.

Due to self imposed restrictions, I cannot acquire any more polishes so I've been channeling my "we have food at home" energy into recreating nail polishes I've been eyeing. Some I tried to dupe exactly. Some are just inspired. All colors have been listed in the order applied. Breakdown is also listed under each photo

Fancy Gloss Unteal Summer Ends

1. Cirque Colors - Aqua Jelly

2. Phoenix Indie - Ice Delight

Mooncat - Midsummer's Dream

1. OPI Oh My Majesty (or any white really)

2. Cirque Colors - Rosewater Jelly

3. Phoenix Indie - Ice Delight

4. Cirque Colors - Rosewater Jelly (#1) or Linen (#2)

Mooncat - Head in the Clouds

1. OPI Oh My Majesty + Essie Petal Pushers (mixed to create a greyish white)

2. Phoenix Indie - Ice Delight

3. Cirque Colors - Linen

Fancy Gloss - I Smell Children

1. Mooncat Smokescreen (magnetized)

2. Cirque Colors - Ube Jelly (ombre)

Fancy Gloss - Darkest Mermaid 2.0

1. A mint green I frankened years ago

2. Cirque Colors - Lagoon Jelly

3. Fancy Gloss - Black Thermal

4. Essie - Shine of the Times (couldn't capture the orange/red shift but it's fiery irl)

Fancy Gloss - Nightstalker

1. Fancy Gloss Crystal Opal

2. Fancy Gloss Black Thermal

3. Fancy Gloss Crystal Opal

My first Lyn B order came in and just from the swatches I am SO impressed! I got these all during her last 50% off sale which put them at $6.50 each, an absolute STEAL!

I used Fair Isle for my mani today (obviously) and it didn’t disappoint. Such a wonderful formula and so incredibly easy to work with, I loved how it looked in two coats but did three to build it up to be as dark as it is in the bottle. I can’t wait to try out the rest!!

Also don’t mind the weird lines on some of my swatch sticks, it drives me crazy but some of them just came like that🤷🏼‍♀️

Left to right: Juice Box Hero, Good Scents of Humor, Fair Isle, Cat’s Paw

Right is Ethereal Creature by Ethereal

Left is one coat of Divine by Revlon (which is a DEEP red) and one coat of Lush by Polished for Days

I really would love to see an IRL swatch before I purchase. ALSO I have never magnetized before. I don’t really like this one unmagnetized (looking at Mooncat’s photos), but looking at the instructions the cat eye doesn’t seem crazy hard. I normally take one hour a week to do my nails, would magnetizing add significantly to my time?

Star Destroyer is 3 coats for full opacity in me. I had the idea that if I put a silver metallic color under Star Destroyer it would help cut down on the number of coats. It does but it also brought out some of the blue in the bottle. Without the silver metallic, star destroyer does not have a blue tint on me. It’s all silver. I don’t have a swatch without the silver layer at this time. I’m traveling for the holidays. I wanted to share my findings in case others wanted to get some of the blue in the bottle to show up on the nail as well. It’s too soon for me to know which way I prefer.

Polishes used: Mooncat Base coat 1 coat of ORLY Esteemed 2 coats of Mooncat Star Destroyer 1 coat Cuticula limitless top coat

pics in order: swatch sticks in cool lighting, swatch sticks in warm lighting, bottles in cool lighting, bottles in warm lighting

polishes (top to bottom) - Nina Caribbean Blue - Sally Hansen Marine Dream - Cirque Colors Marine Scene - Mooncat A Galaxy Far, Far Away - Sally Hansen Holo-Back - KISS Blues Gone Wild - Izme Cold Heart - L.A. Colors Wired - Cirque Colors Lapis Lazuli - Mooncat House Of Hades - Zoya Adara - OPI Chopstix And Stones - Zoya Jen