HITS Speciallita No Olympo Hermes Gold Holo

HITS Speciallita No Olympo Hermes is a light gold holo polish, a kind of taupe gold that almost looks nude on me in certain lights. It has a very noticeable holo effect, even indoors, but it's not as strong as the holo on HITS Speciallita No Olympo Poseidon.  The formula was good, I like the thinner and longer old school brush, and the application was easy.  The polish goes on in easy thin coats.  I used three coats.  Two would have been enough, but I wanted to cover up any nail line, so just to be sure, I used three coats.  I used Seche Vite on top.  Seche Vite didn't cause shrinkage, but the Revlon Quick-Dry Top Coat that I add every morning did cause shrinkage.  This is a very classy gold holo.  I think it's work appropriate and it's also a nice touch on a night out.

I still have this manicure on today.  I will be taking it off tomorrow.  I plan to put on Revlon Whimsical tomorrow, but I haven't chosen a blue polish to wear under Whimsical yet.  If any of you have worn Whimsical before, please let me know if you wore a different color underneath.  I'm thinking I may use Sinful Colors Cinderella.

The Hermes manicure has lasted a while, though.  I put it on last Sunday, so it's been 6 days.  It still hasn't chipped, but there's serious tip shrinkage and tip wear and noticeable growth.

In the pictures below, I am marking my photos with my blog address for the first time.  I looked for an iPhone app to use to watermark photos on the iPhone, but many of them will significantly reduce the resolution of the photo.  I have a couple of apps on price watches to see if they lower the price, and those apps are not supposed to reduce the resolution, but we'll see.  Right now I'm using the PicShop HD -- Photo Editor app.  It was free for the day yesterday (and today, too, I think).  From what I can tell, the newly saved photos with my blog address are about half the size of the original photo files, but at least the images still look O.K. to me so far.  If any of you use a good iPhone app to watermark your photos on your iPhone, please let me know.  And, let me know if you think the resolution of these photos is much lower than my usual photo resolution.  You should still be able to click on photos to make them larger and hopefully sharper, too.

These next two photos were taken in my office, under office lighting.  The top photo is without flash, and the bottom photo is with flash.  You can see that the polish has a holo effect even indoors under regular office lighting.

The next few pictures are in sunlight:

Indirect sunlight, and still there's a lot of holo!

Different angle of indirect sunlight.  Cool gradient effect.

Indirect sunlight.  This gives you an idea of what the polish looks like without the big holo fireworks.

Again, in indirect sunlight, after several days' worth of wear.

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Nail Mail: Holo Nail Polishes!

I got these polishes in the mail on Monday, and it was very exciting because everyone loves nail mail, I love holo polishes, and I had only just ordered these polishes from Llarowe three mailing days earlier!

I got three holo polishes from HITS:  Demeter, Hermes and Poseidon.  HITS is a Brazilian brand of polish. Llarowe is the U.S. stockist for the polish.  Demeter is an orange holo.  I love orange polishes, and this is my first orange holo, not that I've seen any orange holos anywhere else.  If anyone has seen any other orange holos, please let me know. Hermes is a taupe/gold holo.  Poseidon is a light blue holo, even though it looks a little darker in some pictures below.  Poseidon has a very strong holo, and the other two have weaker holo effects.  They are all very pretty, and I'm very pleased with them.  I worry when I order things online without having seen them, but these polishes lived up to all my expectations.

Demeter and Hermes were on sale on the Llarowe website for $9 each, and I paid $10 for Poseidon.  I paid no tax, and the shipping was $2.29 (and fast!).  Total for the order was $30.29.

Without flash.

With flash.

Demeter is the orange swatch, below it is Hermes, and below that is Poseidon, which has a very strong holo effect.

Top to bottom:  Demeter, Hermes, and Poseidon.  Isn't that a gorgeous orange on Demeter?

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