Holographic Comparisons Featuring FNUG

I would have posted this entry at lunchtime today but I did something I fortunately don't do very often: lost my first draft when I failed to save it at any point between when I started typing it and when I accidently closed the document window thinking it was a different window entirely. I guess I have to do dumb stuff like that every so often to remind myself why I hate doing dumb stuff like that. At least I didn't lose the photos this time; those are not so easy to replace as the words. Ah Well, onward to the comparisons I mentioned when I posted the swatches of the FNUG holographics. All of the swatches today are two coats of color over a base coat (Aqua Base for FNUG and Layla, Instant Artificials for all others, no top coat.

Let's start with the silvers. To compare to FNUG Psychedelic, I grabbed GOSH Holographic Hero (which like the FNUGs is in my stash thanks to mrsrexy), Dance Legend T-1000, and Color Club Harp on It.



Here they are on the nail, indoors, in the same order as the bottles above:



And here they are in the sunshine:



The slightly blurrier photo below highlights the differences I saw among these. The GOSH is the least holo (this newer version does not live up to the original GOSH Holographic). The FNUG has the smoothest most complex rainbow, while the Dance Legend is a bit less refined and the Color Club a bit less than that. Still, the Color Club holds up well against its expensive cousins from overseas.



I'll finish off the silvers section with a couple different angles taken in the sun:





Moving along to the light green category, I have FNUG Fantastica, Layla Jade Groove, Urban Outfitters Green Holo, and Color Club Angel Kiss.



On the nail, the differences in the base colors shows up more than it did in the bottles. The FNUG is most yellow-leaning, and the Color Club is nearly blue. Here they are indoors (again in same order as the bottles):



In the sun, all of them have rainbows; I think the FNUG wins, though, as its rainbow seems to have more colors. The Layla takes second place.



The greens in the sun from a different persepctive:





Wrapping up with the light blues, FNUG Futuristica took on Layla Mermaid Spell, Color Club Blue Heaven, and China Glaze Sci Fly By.



On the nail, indoors, the first three show hints of rainbows while the China Glaze (from this past springs Hologram collection) just looks like a metallic-leaning shimmer.



In the sun, the disparity continues. The FNUG busts out the most beautiful rainbow, with the Layla not far behind and the Color Club not far behind that. The China Glaze does look more colorful than it did indoors, but compared to the other three, it's not at all eye catching. The OMG collection proved China Glaze can do great linear holos; they just haven't their last two tries.



The blurry shot below was as holo as I could get the China Glaze to look:



I'll finish up today with a few more shots of the blue rainbows in the sun:







I haven't done the math so I can't prove it, but I believe the Color Club ones win in the dollars per rainbow category. FNUG wins in colors per fingertip.

FNUG Holographics

Yep, more holos, this time from FNUG. These are in my stash thanks to mrsrexy at Canadian Nail Fanatic, who included them in a surprise package she sent me with all sorts of goodies. I admit I started in on the edible items pretty much right away, but it took me much longer to get a chance to try these polishes since sunshine and swatching time don't seem coincide very often. There are three colors: Psychedelic (silver), Fantastica (green), and Futuristica (blue). The bottles come in the nail polish version of tantalizing lingerie, sheer drawstring bags that invite one to remove them to see the beauty behind the veil.



On the recommendation of The Holo Queen, I used a holo base coat with these FNUGs (I used Nfu Oh Aqua Base) and no topcoat. All swatches today are two coats of color.

I started with Psychedelic, the silver. The least colorful I could get it to look was in the diffuse light of my lightbox, as shown below:



In regular room light, a bit more direct than the lightbox, the rainbows started to show up for real:



In lower levels of indoor light, there were still rainbows:



In the sunshine, the rainbows were ridiculous:





It was the same story with Fantastica, the green. Lightbox:



Direct indoor light:



Low indoor light:



Sunshine:





Futuristica, the blue one, performed just as well as the other two. Lightbox:



Direct indoor light:



Low indoor light:



Sunshine:





Just look at those rainbows! I am so appreciative that mrsrexy made it possible for me to have these in my stash. Thanks, lady!

I did do some comparisons of these to other holos in my stash, but since this entry is already photo heavy, I'll save those for another blog post in the near future, possibly even tomorrow depending on whether I can stay focused.