Orange Holographic Polish Comparison

**Polishes Purchased by Me**

I love orange polish, and I love holographic polish, so I go crazy over orange holographic polish.  It's not that easy to get a bright holographic orange polish.  The holographic part of the polish seems to dull the color of the polish or make it look a little "dusty."  The color itself in orange holographic polish often seems brownish rather than a more yellow-based orange or a more red-based orange.   I own a few orange holographic polishes, but until recently didn't have one that was a true orange holo that didn't look dusty or brownish or dull.  The creator of Dollish Polish recently offered to make custom polishes, and I asked her for my dream orange holo polish.  The result was The Holo Grail that she made especially for me:

My blog is now a year old, and my next post will probably be a giveaway post, and one of the prizes will be a bottle of The Holo Grail.  I bought three bottles--one for myself, one as a backup, and one to give away.

As far as orange holo comparisons go, The Crumpet did a very nice orange holo comparison post here.  There are also a few different posts at The Pointless Cafe with one-to-one or small group comparisons of orange holo polishes, for example, here and here.  If you know of any other good orange holo comparison posts, please let me know in the comments section below.

Here are some pictures with comparisons of the orange holo polishes that I own:

Left to Right:  Dollish Polish The Holo Grail, Enkelini Lainey Lou, Jade Uau!, Literary Lacquers More Like Fire Than Light, Hits Demeter, and Different Dimension Tubular

Left to Right:  same as above

Literary Lacquers' More Like Fire Than Light

One coat of each (above):
#8:  The Holo Grail
#7:  More Like Fire Than Light
#6:  Uau!
You can see that Jade's Uau! is very saturated even at one coat.

Two coats
On #9 is Pretty & Polished's Incinerate My Heart which I'm wearing on my toes right now.

The linear holo gets stronger at two coats in Literary Lacquer's More Like Fire Than Light, #7 above.
The Holo Grail, #8 above, has a weak holo effect indoors on a nail wheel; I haven't seen it outdoors.

This might be the picture that shows the holo in The Holo Grail (#8 above) the best.

You can see that the Literary Lacquer's holo (#7 above) has more yellow in it than Jade's (#6 above).

The Holo Grail (#8 on top wheel) has a very similar base color to China Glaze's Riveting (#3 on bottom wheel).

Hits Demeter (#6 on the top wheel) is more of a coral color.

The base color in The Holo Grail is similar to that in Hits Hula (#10 in the top wheel), one of my all-time favorite polishes.

A red holo, Hits Ares (#15 on bottom wheel), for comparison.

Different Dimension's Tubular on the bottom wheel at #16.
Tubular has a very weak holo, at least indoors, and it has more yellow in it.

On the bottom wheel were last year's Pantone set of Tangerine Tango polishes from Sephora.

On the bottom wheel at #1 is Enkelini's Lainey Lou, a really bright orange holo with more yellow in it than The Holo Grail.

Enkelini's Lainey Lou on the left.

Revlon's Haunted Heart on the top wheel at #6.

**Polishes Purchased by Me**

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Comparison of Blackheart Beauty (Hot Topic exclusive) Deceit and FingerPaints Twisted Flakie Polishes

As I write this post, Tropical Storm Isaac is over South Florida, and tropical storm conditions will intensify here for the next 12 hours and continue for probably another 12 hours after that.  So far we have not lost power in our home, so I'm taking advantage of that to put up a blog post, maybe even two posts if I can.

On Saturdays, after a week of wear on my manicures, I usually try an accent nail of glitter or some other special effect top coat because I don't have to worry about being work-appropriate, and I take off my polish and give myself a new manicure on Sundays just in time for work on Monday.

In the pictures in this post, the base color is L'Oreal's L'Orange, which I reviewed here.  In the pictures it looks red, but it's orange in real life.  My camera photographs oranges as reds and purples as blues, and I have not figured out a way around that yet.  I had worn the L'Orange for a week, so there is tip wear and shrinkage in the photos below.

I decided that Saturday to try Blackheart Beauty's Deceit--a flakie polish--as an accent nail on my left hand.  Blackheart Beauty is an edgy brand of cosmetics created especially for Hot Topic.  From what I understand, the products are vegan-friendly and not tested on animals.  The products are very low in price, and the prices are even lower now.  They are available in Hot Topic stores in malls and also online at Hot Topic's website.  Everything is buy-one-get-one-half-off now on the site.

I started out with an accent nail on my left hand with Deceit, but I liked it so much that I put the Deceit flakie polish on all my nails on my left hand.

Here are some pictures of Blackheart Beauty's Deceit, taken indoors, in my bathroom, so not the best pictures (but you can click on them to enlarge them to see more detail), and it's not easy to photograph flakie polishes, either, but here are the photos I was able to take:

I started with just an accent nail.
I don't know why I held my pinkie out, but I assure you that I do have five fingers on my left hand.

See?  Five fingers on my left hand.

I liked the polish so much that I put it on all my nails on my left hand.

I thought that the polish was similar to FingerPaint's Twisted flakie polish, so I tried Twisted on all my nails on my right hand.

Here are some pictures of FingerPaint's Twisted on my right hand:

Indoors, bathroom lighting again.

Weird pose or picture or both, isn't it?

You can see that Twisted's flakies lie flat on the nail with just the slightest amount of dimpling after top coat.

Sunlight.

Sunlight.

Indirect sunlight.  The flakies are clearer on my pointer finger in this photo.

The polishes are similar enough that I could get away with putting a different one on each hand.  There are quite a few differences between the polishes, though.  The flakes in Deceit are more shard-like rather than the traditional fish flakes in Twisted.  The flakes in Deceit stick out a bit, like most shard flakies, but the flakies in Twisted lie flat.  Twisted is shinier but not as eye-catching.  Also, Deceit has added glitter to the polish which contributes to it being more eye-catching.  Deceit is in a pink base, so it tinted my manicure and changed the color of the L'Orange manicure, making it more red-orange rather than orange.  Twisted comes in a clear base, so it doesn't change the color of your base polish.  Twisted's flakes also seem to have more gold and green whereas Deceit looks more pink and purple.  So, they are different enough to justify owning both . . . in my opinion, wink, wink.

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China Glaze Ring in the Red Compared to Ruby Pumps

So, it turns out that China Glaze's Ring in the Red, that I mentioned here, is very different from China Glaze Ruby Pumps.  It's definitely a warmer red.  Also, it has small hex red glitter in addition to the red tiny speck glitter. Ruby Pumps just has the ruby tiny speck glitter.  RITR sparkles much more for a va va voom effect.

At first, after just one coat, I thought it was sheer and top coat only material to be worn with underwear (another more opaque color underneath it), but it built up after three coats.  If you use three coats, it can be worn on its own and doesn't need another color underneath for full coverage.

Here are some pictures of swatches from my nail wheels:

On the top wheel, #13 is China Glaze Ruby Pumps (on the right in the picture), and #14 is Milani Ruby Jewels (on the left in the picture), which is a dupe for Ruby Pumps.  On the bottom wheel, #5 is China Glaze Ring in the Red, and #4 is Spoiled Ants in my Pants.

On the top wheel, #13 is China Glaze Ruby Pumps (on the right in the picture), and #14 is Milani Ruby Jewels (on the left in the picture), which is a dupe for Ruby Pumps.  On the bottom wheel, #5 is China Glaze Ring in the Red, and #4 is Spoiled Ants in my Pants.

On the top wheel, #13 is China Glaze Ruby Pumps (on the right in the picture), and #14 is Milani Ruby Jewels (on the left in the picture), which is a dupe for Ruby Pumps.  On the bottom wheel, #5 is China Glaze Ring in the Red, and #4 is Spoiled Ants in my Pants.

I have spent through Wednesday, April 4th, about $20 on my Walgreens haul and just under $16 on my Ulta mini-haul, so about $35 so far this month on polish (and make-up), and my goal is to spend under $100 per month. Hmmm, that's one-third of my target budget in less than the first one-sixth of the month, so at this rate I am spending over $200 per month. Sigh.

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