Kleancolor So-Called Chunky Holos

In exchange for functioning as her mail-forwarding agent, Lucy of Lucy's Stash said I could swatch her recent order of Kleancolor polishes, all of the chunky holo series. Sad to say one member of the squad didn't survive the trip to my house; poor Chunky Holo Purple, we hardly knew ye.



The other eight bottles, similarly wrapped in newspaper, were fine, so I took Lucy at her word and went ahead and swatched them on a nail wheel. (Just her luck that I didn't have any of these in my stash already so was very curious about them.) Starting with the bright pink and moving clockwise (do people still know what direction that is?), there's Chunky Holo Candy, Chunky Holo Poppy, Chunky Holo Fuchsia, Chunky Holo Scarlet, Chunky Holo Clover, Chunky Holo Teal, Chunky Holo Bluebell, and Chunky Holo Black, followed by each of the colors in the same order layered over black, followed by Poppy over silver (OPI Her Royal Shine-ness) and Teal over silver, and finally Fuchsia over bright pink (Borghese Rapido Maraschino) and Black over bright pink.



Most of the colors are sheer; on the first eight nail tips, I used three coats of all but Scarlet, which was two. Over the black, I used one coat of the Kleancolors. Over silver, three coats of Poppy and two coats of Teal. Over pink, one coat of Fuchsia and two of Black.





I was surprised to see how similar most of the colors looked over black; I guess they use the same glitter in all but Scarlet and Black (obviously that was different—it's actually chunky).








Over silver the reddish face of the glitter popped most, but the green glowed around the edges.



Unlike the silver, the bright pink was powerful enough on its that the Kleancolors only added a hint of their own base color to the combination.



None of these have topcoat, so you can see for glitters they're not bumpy at all (and they are glitters, not holos, as you've no doubt figured out by now).

I probably should have stopped there, since these weren't my polishes, after all, but I just couldn't resist playing a bit more. I mean, look here at Chunky Holo Black—how was I supposed to just pack up that bottle without seeing it on my nails? I am not that strong.





I decided OPI Jade Is the New Black would make a good base, so put on two coats of that, followed by two of Chunky Holo Black. Oh my, that sealed it—I am going to need to buy my own bottle of this Kleancolor. The combination reminded me of the glorious fall colors we're seeing on the trees around here now.



I had to take this outside to enjoy it there, too. I didn't have full sun that day, but it glowed nicely under the partly cloudy conditions, too, which is good, since I am most often not in full sun.





So yes, I definitely need to buy the Black. I'm thinking one of the others, too, probably Bluebell since it's my favorite base color of that group. If I didn't already have a lot of red glitters, I'd probably get Scarlet, too, but I do so I won't.

Thanks, Lucy for letting me try your pretties!

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