Indigo Bananas Holo Multi Chrome Flakies Pt. 3

I'm back with my final comparison post of the Indigo Bananas Holo Multi Chrome Flakies!

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This week I explore the blue to purple shifting flakies, the ones that can look the most similar if you don't look closely enough! For more on the warmer shifting shades, makes sure you check out Pt. 1 of this three part series. For more on the green/blue shifting flakies, make sure you check out Pt. 2!

Formula breakdown is the same on all the Indigo Bananas Holo Mega Chrome Flakies so I'll cover it first. They all apply opaque in three coats, no sponging required. I would wait at least 1 minute between coats (basically while you do your other hand) so that you don't drag the flakies down. I love the formula on these, it is the perfect mix of holo pigment and multi-chrome flakies. The flakies also lay flat on the nail and are not difficult to remove at all.

For the post I've included three different views per polish: one in direct light, one in indirect light and one macro. These are also shown sans top coat, so sorry these aren't super shiny and if a flakie looks a little textured, it's only because I haven't glossed over it with top coat. Typically it wouldn't look that way. Let's get started!

This is Indigo Bananas Sea Quake Holo and is definitely the shifter that is least like the others in this group, mostly because of it's strong teal shift. Probably belonged in the last grouping, but I don't have six fingers on one hand, so to this group it went! ;-) The shift in this one is green to teal to blue to violet to red, but mostly looks teal to purple.







Next up is Indigo Bananas Island Universe Holo.This is a teal to blue to purple/magenta shift, similar to Sea Quake, but with much more purple pulling through. Where Sea Quake looks more teal in it's shift, Island Universe looks more purple.





 

This is Indigo Bananas Cloudwalker Holo. Cloudwalker and Island Universe are probably the closest two multichrome flakies in this Indigo Bananas set. This shift in this is very similar to Island Universe – teal to blue to purple – but Cloudwalker has added red and gold at the very outer edges. Of the two, Cloudwalker is my favorite because it shifts more equally between all the colors and feels just a tad brighter to me (but that is probably just how I captured it in photos).







This is Indigo Bananas Violet Stars Holo. I just loved this one right off the bat. Ever see a sunset that is super vibrant purples and reds? That is what this shift immediately reminded me of! This one shifts from indigo to violet to red to gold, mostly looking indigo-red. So lovely!







Finally we have Indigo Bananas Deep Blue Day Holo. This flakie's shift was the least obvious, but if you're a blue lover you will love this one. It shifts from an almost navy blue to indigo to purple. This does slightly shift to red, but you have to tilt the nails just so (I say if you're into the red shift, definitely get Violet Stars). It mostly just showcases all those lovely cool colors which blend together in a lovely subtle way.

These polishes can be worn opaque, like I've shown above but also as a topper. Below I show a side by side comparison (in the same order as I reviewed them in, thumb to pinkie) of the polishes as a topper and then side-by-side comparison of them opaque. Sorry I didn't label these as I did in the previous posts, I completely forgot.





 

So here we are, 14 shades later, I've completed the comparison posts!  Now let's dish, which ones are your favorite and which do you most want to get?!?

Indigo Banana's Holo Mega Chrome Flakies are available now on the Indigo Bananas website and retail for $12 for full size (15ml) and $7.25 for a mini (8ml). 

You can look for Indigo Bananas news on their Facebook page and Instagram account, and if you are an Indigo Bananas lover, you should totally join us in the We're Bananas for Indigo Bananas Facebook fan group, the more the merrier!

Indigo Bananas Holo Multi Chrome Flakies Pt. 2

Hello everyone! I'm back with another comparison post of five of the lovely Indigo Bananas Holo Multi Chrome Flakies.

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Today I've picked the green and blue shifting flakies of the bunch. These are completely the colors I am most drawn to! If you are curious about the warmer/pinker shades in the bunch, make sure you check out Pt. 1 of my Holo Multi Chrome Flakies Review! And stay tuned for side by side comparisons at the end of this post.

I've once again lumped the formula portion of this post all together, because the formula on all the Indigo Bananas Holo Mega Chrome Flakies is the same. They all apply opaque in three coats, no sponging required. I would wait at least 1 minute between coats (basically while you do your other hand) so that you don't drag the flakies down. I love the formula on these, it is the perfect mix of holo pigment and multi-chrome flakies. The flakies also lay flat on the nail and are not difficult to remove at all.

For the post I've included three different views per polish: one in direct light, one in indirect light and one macro. These are also shown sans top coat, so sorry these aren't super shiny and if a flakie looks a little textured, it's only because I haven't glossed over it with top coat. Typically it wouldn't look that way. Let's get started!

This is Indigo Bananas Watercolor Memories Holo. This has green and pink shifting flakies, and as you can tell in the macro there is a slight blue shift to it as well. This polish is a stunner and it shows both green and pink in direct light. This is a flakie combo I have not seen before and I do say this is a must have!







This is Indigo Bananas A Greener World Holo and my does this one really take my breath away. Green lovers, this has a bit of every hue of green in it. From gold to light green to darker green to teal. In direct light it looks mostly green, but in indirect light and especially in the macro shot you can see just how complex and deep the hues of green go!







This is Indigo Bananas A Field Trip With Butterflies Holo and for the green lovers, it too is an amazing flakie shifter. It shifts a tad less yellow to light green, and more bright green to teal to blue. You definitely feel the blue/teal tones stronger in this shift than in A Greener World.







This is Indigo Bananas Nautilis Holo, and as you can tell now, are moving more toward the blue shifting flakies. This shift is just a hint of green then it goes from teal to blue to just a hint of violet. For the blue/teal lovers, this is a stunner!







And finally we have Indigo Bananas Hyperborea Holo. This polish is mostly blue, but shifts from teal to blue to violet. I found this to be the least shifty of these five polishes in the bunch, but still quite beautiful! The violet does show up even stronger in direct light.

Now these polish can be worn opaque, like I've shown above but also as a topper, so I decided to do a side by side comparison of the polishes as a topper and then side-by-side comparison of them opaque.







Side by side you can really see their shifts a little more clearly – I like how side by side they clearly start to look a bit rainbow/ombre-esque!

Indigo Banana's Holo Mega Chrome Flakies are available now on the Indigo Bananas website and retail for $12 for full size (15ml) and $7.25 for a mini (8ml). 

You can look for Indigo Bananas news on their Facebook page and Instagram account, and if you are an Indigo Bananas lover, you should totally join us in the We're Bananas for Indigo Bananas Facebook fan group, the more the merrier!

Next week I'll be sharing the last of my Indigo Bananas Holo Multi Chrome Flakies – the purple/violet shifters, so stay tuned! 

Which is your favorite!?! Which shade are you most likely to purchase?! Was this post at all helpful for you to distinguish between the flakies in this collection? I'd love your feedback!

Indigo Bananas A Fields Trip with Butterflies Holo

 Recently Indigo Bananas came out with holo versions of their Mega Chrome Flakies collection and I was sent a few to review! Today I'll share with you the fun I had with A Field Trip with Butterflies Holo, complete with a comparison with it's ILNP counterpart.



Now I am going to warn you now, this post will be extra photo heavy because this polish has so many different looks to it. In the shade it shifts from green to teal to blue. In the sun, the holo totally comes out to play.









Application on this one was a breeze, three coats for full opacity. This application is with the brush, no sponging required! The flakies lay flat on the nail and are not difficult to remove at all!

What I really like about this particular brand's take on holo finish, is that it is a good portion of holo. In the shade the polish clearly isn't only flakies, which is what I prefer. Close up the flakies look interspersed throughout the holo, instead of just a sprinkling of spectraflair that really is only visible in the sun. It's a good mixture of both the flakie and the holo trends! To illustrate this point a bit I've compared three coats of Indigo Bananas A Field Trip with Butterflies Holo (bottom nail) with ILNP Gaia Holo (upper nail).





Sorry I know my macros are not the best, but this clearly shows that A Field Trip with Butterflies packs more a punch in the holo and the flakie department! More bang for your buck with the IG and no sponging application required! :)

Since I can never leave well enough alone, I added a little nail stamping to the mix. I've had this butterfly nail stamping image forever and never pulled it out to use it and since butterflies was in the name of this very polish, thought it was high time I actually attempted some butterfly nails!







The Indigo Banana Holo Mega Chrome polishes can also be used as toppers, but I haven't tried that out yet. I have two more of these to show you in future posts, and hopefully by the last one I'll have a comparison of them side by side as toppers so you can see that effect.

Indigo Bananas can be purchased at their website in full bottles (15ml) or mini bottles (8ml), which I always love because then if you aren't sure you'll like it, you can always just test it out. A Field Trip with Butterflies is $12 for full size and $7.25 for mini. Also Indigo Bananas usually has all their polish in stock, so you aren't dealing with out of control restocks or stressful purchasing situations.

You can look for Indigo Bananas news on their Facebook page and Instagram account (which is having a giveaway right now, so go check it out!). And if you are an Indigo Bananas lover, you should totally join us in the We're Bananas for Indigo Bananas Facebook fan group, we are currently having an IG nail art contest!

So what are your feelings about the flakie craze? Love it? Over it? Liking all the possibilities one can experience with flakies? Like it with holo or as a topper? Share with me your thoughts! I've been very intrigued with the flakies jelly combos I've been seeing out there lately!

Green and Gold Skittle Nails

Hi everyone, today I am featuring two polishes I paired together using nail vinyls to create a fun skittle nail look.



To create this look I used two really amazing polishes, which unfortunately are not available for sale anymore. So I'm sorry to make you drool at these hard to find polishes, but they just paired too well together!



Ok so this amazing green polish is Octupus Party Nail Lacquer Chimera. This lovely polish is a olive-leaning green polish with a holo finish and various multicolored flakies scattered throughout and subtle gold flashes of color. The mastermind behind Octupus Party Nail Lacquers, Dave, released this beauty on his birthday and I'm not quite sure if it will be back at some point or not, but you never know with him. He likes to keep his fans happy!



The gold polish I used was Different Dimension Armstrong, part of the Shooting Star Series which was inspired by Astronauts. Armstrong is a beautiful bronze holo polish with tiny copper flakies scattered throughout. The holo in this one is very strong in direct sunlight, below.



Overall I just really loved how this skittle came together. I like how each polish had its own subtle hint of flakies, which I'm really starting to like the most regarding this whole flakie craze. I think that flakies are best served as a subtle extra to a color or look which gives it an extra unique little something. I like when there is a just a tiny scattering of flakies, because flakies all on their own look a little textured to me, and I was never much into the textured trend. I like smooth shiny nails! I also really like how the gold flashes of Chimera complimented the bronze shine of Armstrong.

I also just really love skittle nails because I wear them longer because it takes me longer to get bored of them!

What do you think about this whole flakie craze? You like it in your face, or as a subtle extra? Or with added holo?

P.S. Stay tuned everyone! I've got my blogiversary coming up on Friday and you won't want to miss the epic giveaway I am hosting to celebrate!