HOTT holo sauce!!!

If Collide Into You and So Unique were mild sauce, Color Club's Cosmic Fate is hot sauce for sure!  Oh my, Melissa (a la Lacquer Reverie) must be rubbing off on me, 'cuz I just made a food reference! hahaha
And get this; after a couple days of taking Cosmic Fate into my own hands, I decided I'd amp up the awesomeness by trying my first sponging gradient as an accent nail - with two other holos.  OH YESSSS I did! :-D

Yup, these are my holo-y, unshapely nubs.  Be distracted by the Spectraflair!!! :-P

After lemming strong linear holos for SO LONG (not being willing to spend upwards of $20 a bottle for those darn "original" ChG's or OPI's), I originally "splurged" on Color Club Revvvolution, but that really wasn't the blow your mind holo I was hoping for.  So after looking at countless swatches, I decided that Angel Kiss from the 2012 Halographic collex was beautiful light aqua color that I had to have. 

And whenever I saw the 2013 Halographics, I was always drawn to Cosmic Fate like a bug to a zapper, because peachy shades seem to be "my thing."  

Fun fact about my photo shoot for this mani: the screen was off my bedroom window at the time, so I was kneeling on my bed, sticking my arms out the window & snapping photos.  I tried to pull them in every time I heard a car coming, but . . . I wasn't always successful!  So I'm sure whoever saw my arms (the window is at a 90 degree angle to the street, so there's no way they could see the rest of my body) was pretty weirded out!  I kinda stopped caring - especially if I had the pose just right. :-P

I'm so glad I finally went ahead & treated myself to this yummy orange sherbet!  I found it on eBay for $7.00, free shipping. Loving that price for a full-size bottle!  . . . unlike Jade Delirio Rosa, which although lovely, and also $7.00 (on Llarowe) is only 8ml.  For some odd reason, I did not notice the size until it arrived.  Oh well!  It's certainly a fun, bright "Barbie pink" as some of the reviews have said. :-)

Application for Cosmic Fate was easy, and no special "aqua base" coat required.  I honestly don't even know what that is, but I've heard other bloggers mention it as necessary to keep Layla holos from . . . being patchy?  I dunno!  haha
What you see here is two coats, and I think one quick swipe of Sally Hansen topcoat.  Pretty sure it was my 4-in-1 base/nourishing/strengthening bamboo/top coat stuff.  I love something that multitasks!

Aaaaand the gradient!  One of my roommates gave me a pack of round cosmetic sponges she doesn't use, from which I cut a teensy, tiny triangle and used my tweezers to gingerly sponge on some Angel Kiss at the bottom, and Delirio Rosa at the top.  Voila!  My 3 strong linear holos on one 'lil nubbin! ;-)  Hehe!

And that's all she wrote!  Enjoy the last few hours of your weekend, peeps! . . . unless you're my dad and have Mondays off.

A LOVEly mani, "heart"-ing Darling Diva Polish

HEART-ing (instead of starring . . . get it?) hehe :-P  Yeah, I'm a dork!  Anyways . . .
If you read my post about Zoya Arizona, you know I was feeling rather down last week, so I decided to finally execute a mani that I'd been planning for awhile and that was completed by the perfect accent polish arriving from Llarowe.  This mani definitely cheered me up with it pretty pinkness and happy holo hearts!  I realize this would be a perfect Pink Wednesday post, but oh well!
Oop, therrre it IS:

Two coats OPI Mod About You + 1 coat Darling Diva Polish Rescue Me + some dabbing
Accent nail: one coat Mod About you + 2 coats Jade Delirio Rosa + pure love!
Oh, and two coats of Seche Vite over everything - hence the ever-present shrinkage.  Grrrrrr.

Sometimes Delirio Rosa looks deep like this, other times more Barbie pink
(see 1st photo)

Despite loving the color of Mod About You (perfect chalky pastel pink), its application is a pain in the rear.  The first coat is impossibly streaky, two coats are pretty good, but if I weren't wearing this with a glitter topper, I probably would've done three.

Rescue Me by Darling Diva Polish is a fairly complex glitter topper in a clear base.  It has a medium purply-pink microshimmer, small white satin squares, small matte white bars, small black hexes, large black bars, and large pink HOLO hearts!! WOW.  The base is rather "goopy," but it's not unmanageable, the hearts come out easily if you tip the bottle upside down for a bit before application, and as I said, one coat plus some fill-in dabbing gets you a really decent glitter distribution.  I love the randomness.

And another reason to love this polish: 100% of the proceeds go to Basset Buddies Rescue.  Awww!  I personally think basset hounds are sooo adorable, and helping suffering, downtrodden, helpLESS animals has always been near & dear to my heart.  

I must confess, I actually found this polish on a blog sale, but you can still get it through Darling Diva's Etsy shop that I've linked to above.

The flash is making the holo look more bold than it is IRL

Delirio Rosa is the vivacious pink in the Jade Holográfico collection of Brazilian fame.  I am glad I got it as the color isn't quite the same as any other pinks out there, however, it's not as holographic as I expected it to be.  And for a measly 8 oz. bottle, I think I'd much rather spend my money on one of the Color Club holos (twice the size for about the same price), which are insanely holographic.  The application was very nice and smooth, and since I layered it over Mod About You (to conserve), one coat was probably ok, but I was hoping to bump up the holo-ness with two coats.  3 or 4 would probably be necessary on its own.
You can get Delirio Rosa (and the rest of the collex here, or if you'd like to find Color Clubs on the cheap (around $7 or $8), I'd recommend eBay or Amazon.

If you'd like to see more of what I mean about the difference between these two brands, continue scrolling.  If not, you can return to your regularly scheduled programming!  Thanks for stopping by my blog!

Inside; standard incandescent bulb, no flash
SO weird that DR looks totally washed out, almost beige here!
(rest assured, it's NOT like that!)

Outside; cloudy skies, no flash
This is spot-on color accurate for DR!

Outside; cloudy skies, flash (to simulate the non-existent sun)

Outside; cloudy skies, flash - different angle
Oh, the CC is Angel Kiss from the 2012 collex, btw