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!

A Love Letter for ILNP Open Fields

So today, since I didn't have too long to prepare a more detailed post (because I just got back from a weekend away) I'm sharing with you one of my favorite straight flakies I've played with so far!



I really just love the color shift of ILNP Open Fields, it's the perfect combination of gold to green to blue on the edges and is really just so spectacular as a straight flakie! I haven't tried wearing it along yet, but I think that might just make my head explode.



Open Fields is the first ILNP flakie I broke out for a mani all on it's own, and because I holo all the things, I just had to layer it over ILNP Princeton to see what it looked like with some lovely holo behind it.



It was gorgeous. And I know I don't have an alone shot of ILNP Princeton, but it is just this lovely creamy mint green holo. Open Fields was a lovely compliment to it.



Then I kept seeing these gorgeous swatches of Open Fields layered over a grey. So I went to my collection and found the perfect grey pairing. The base here is Zoya Caitlin, which is almost a purple leaning grey color.



It created the most perfect background, and someone on IG said that the base here almost looks matte and I agree. It is just a great solid creme base and it looks great behind the beauty of the shift in Open Fields.



So what do you think? What has been your favorite flakie so far? And yeah, ILNP is having their holo flakie presale right now, so you should really check it out. I have of course ordered the holo version of this (because WOW, Cait at Polish Hound really wowed me with her swatches).

And the flakie scene is really picking up. The silver flakies with the mulitchrome flakies with the holo, the combinations are endless. I'm currently wearing a spectacular one by Different Dimension that combines a lot (if you follow me on IG, you'll see it!). The makers have really run away with this trend so far, and I'm liking a lot of it. Especially the ones that are combined with other types of things like like, holo etc.

That's all for today, but don't forget to enter my blogiversary giveaway, it ends on Friday!