Holy Blue Dupes, Batman - Part Deux!

My earlier post had me inspired to check out a few other possible dupes in my collection. In a recent swap, from very generous ladies in the Facebook nail polish group I belong to (Nail Polish and Gossip) I recently received Wet N Wild Fast Dry Blue Wants To Be A Millionaire and KleanColor Holo Blue. I already had Milani 3D Holo in Cyberspace, but in the bottle these three looked pretty close so I decided to swatch them and break it down.

 Top: Milani 3D Cyberspace, Middle: KleanColor Holo Blue, Bottom: Wet N Wild Fast Dry Blue Wants To Be A Millionaire

I live in Washington State, where the sun doesn't exist (at least not this summer). This is 3 coats of each shade. The holo on Milani's Cyberspace is more scattered and subtle, even in direct sunlight, but it's still beautiful and definitely more rainbow-y than BWTBAM. Out of the three, the KleanColor has the most noticeable holo effect - super sparkly in the sun! - but again, this is a scattered holo so you don't get the same results you'd get from the linear holos out there. It is gorgeous though! The application on the Milani is the best, with great coverage and less coats needed for true opacity. KleanColor's application is second; the polish is thick but also a little goopy - it might need to be thinned. The WnW is very sheer and didn't produce a very holo-y result. It's also just slightly darker in color than the other two. 

So there you have it! Three very similar polishes, each with their own unique attributes ... depending on what you're looking for! Personally I am happy to own all three. I can find uses for all of them! :) 

Special thanks to Jacqueline Do and Kayelyn Kiethley for swapping me these great polishes! 

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Key Lime Shine

06/04/11 - Milani Key Lime Shine is a discontinued color I've been wanting to try for a while. I really like it! It's a muted grey green with a very pretty shimmer.

Swatch Wheels!

I was finally able to swatch all of my polishes onto wheels! Here they are in all their glory:

Clockwise from top: Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Strobe Light, Sinful Colors You Just Wait, Claire's Mood Color Changing Polish Awesome/Silly, L.A. Colors Art Deco Intense Pink, Sinful Colors Boom Boom, Sally Girl Mini Unnamed, Crayola Scented Nail Polish Bubble Gum, Color Workshop unnamed pink, Urban Decay vintage unnamed pink,  L.A. Colors Art Deco Magenta, Claire's Dazzling, CQ Idyllic, Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Heartbeat Frost, Sinful Colors Sugar Sugar, Sally Girl Mini Phat, Sinful Colors Gogo Girl, Color Workshop unnamed red,  O.P.I. You Don't Know Jacques.

Clockwise from top:  Sinful Colors Vacation Time, Crayola Scented Nail Polish Orange, Color Workshop unnamed pink, CQ Rustic Dream,  Sinful Colors Hazard, Wet N Wild Shine Sunny Side Up, Sally Girl Mini Chunky Gold Glitter, L.A. Colors Art Deco Gold Glitter, Milani 3D Holo in 3-D, Sinful Colors This Is It, Sinful Colors Let's Meet, Milani Key Lime Shine, Sally Girl Mini Pea-Body, Milani 3D Holo in Hi-Tech, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Ivy League, Sinful Colors Mint Apple, Milani 3D Holo in Digital, Sally Girl Mini 2 Cool.

Clockwise from top: Color Club Catwalk Queen, Color Club Wild At Heart, Crayola Scented Nail Polish Grape, L'Oreal Jet Set Presto Perle, Milani One Coat Glitter Purple Gleam, L.A. Colors Color Craze Jewel Tone, Zoya Dannii, Milani 3D Holo in Hi-Res, Color Club Fashion Addict, Sinful Colors Purple Diamond, Sally Girl Mini Luv It, O.P.I. Absolutely Alice, L.A. Colors Art Deco Blue Glitter, L.A. Colors Art Deco Dark Blue, Sinful Colors Midnight Blue, L.A. Colors Color Craze Wired, Crayola Scented Nail Polish Blueberry, Sinful Colors Hot Spot.

Clockwise from top: NYC Long Wearing Big Money Frost, Nubar Reclaim, Sinful Colors Envy, L.A. Colors Art Deco Green Glitter, Crayola Scented Nail Polish Green Apple, Sinful Colors HD Nails, Sally Girl Mini Text Me, Wet N Wild Fast Dry Teal of Fortune, Wet N Wild Shine Caribbean Frost, L.A. Colors Color Craze Treasure Island, Deborah Lippman Across The Universe, Sinful Colors Love Nails, Zoya Phoebe, Sally Girl Mini Surf's Up, Milani 3D Holo Cyberspace, Claire's Bubble Yum Cotton Candy Scented Polish, Sinful Colors Call You Later, CQ Golden Green.

Clockwise from top:  Cover Girl Boundless Color Bronze Beauty, Wet N Wild Fast Dry Grey's Anatomy, Color Club Worth The Risque, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Celeb City, NYC Long Wearing Starry Silver Glitter, Color Workshop unnamed silver glitter, L.A. Colors Art Deco Silver Glitter, L.A. Colors Color Craze Sassy Sparkle, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear In The Spotlight, Barielle Shades Out-Grey-Geous, Milani One Coat Glitter Silver Dazzle, Color Workshop unnamed gunmetal, Color Club Revvvolution, L.A. Colors Art Deco Black Glitter, Color Workshop unnamed rust, Deborah Lippmann Ruby Red Slippers, L.A. Colors Art Deco Red Glitter, Milani One Coat Glitter Red Sparkle.

On the left, from top to bottom: L.A. Color Art Deco White, L.A. Color Art Deco Black, Wet N Wild Shine Black Creme, Wet N Wild Fast Dry Party of 5 Glitters, Ulta Pinata-Yada-Yada, O.P.I. Black Shatter

 Left to Right: Mattese Elite Cream Dream, Mattese Elite Cream Dream with OPI Black Shatter, Mattese Elite Explosive Sensation, Mattese Elite Intense Pleasure, Mattese Elite Nutty Hat Guy, Nubar 2010.

Left: Barielle Elle's Spell, Barielle Falling Star

Left to Right: Barielle Elle's Spell, Barielle Falling Star, Wet N Wild Shine Nerds Need Love Too, Wet N Wild Shine Toss Me A LifeSavers, Mattese Elite Cream Dream

Glitterific!

5/6/11 - My Milani One Coat Glitters arrived today! Had to try them right away. Here is the beautiful Red Sparkle:

And the stunning Purple Gleam:

I also got Silver Dazzle, but haven't swatched her yet! <3

Holographic Rainbows!!

 I am sooo excited about this mani! I decided to make an attempt at a Scotch tape mani using the colors from the Milani 3D Holographic Nail Lacquer collection. Stripes made with Hi-Res (Purple), Cyberspace (Blue), Hi-Tech (Green), 3-D (Gold), and Digital (Pink). Not bad for a first attempt! It's sooo gorgeous and sparkly, especially in the sun! It took me 3 DAYS to finish! I hope you like it!

 

 

 

Funky French!

4/14/11 - Funky French using Color Club Catwalk Queen as the base color and Milani 3D Holographic Nail Lacquer in Hi-Res for the tips. Super pretty and sparkly!

My Stash!

Thought it might be time to post a pic of my meager stash. I've actually added about 25 - 30 polishes since I took this. Current count is ... 85? :)

Haulz! (PIC HEAVY)

3/26/11 - Here's my haul from this week, and of course swatches!

 Color Club, left to right: Worth the Risque, Revvvolution, Fashion Addict, Catwalk Queen

 

Deborah Lippmann Across The Universe (and a bonus mini of Ruby Red Slippers - SCORE!!)

 Milani 3D Holographic Nail Lacquer in 3-D, Cyberspace, and Hi-Tech

Fashion Addict. Some have said the formula has changed on this and it's not as holo as it used to be. I don't know what it looked like before, so I can't compare. I do LOVE this color though! It's so sparky and pretty in the sun!

 

 

Milani 3D Holo in Cyberspace. This is one of my favorite shades of all time! You can clearly see the holo-ey goodness, and it's much more obvious in the Milanis than in the Color Clubs.

 

Milani 3D Holo in 3-D. Another amazing holo shade from Milani! I've yet to meet a Milani I didn't like. 

 Milani 3D Holographic in Hi-Tech. It looks much more yellowish-neon on the nail (though this pic doesn't show it well) than in the bottle. Maybe it's the Seche on top that makes it change color?

Milani Hi-Tech with OPI Black Shatter on top. Pretty cool!

 

Catwalk Queen. SUCH a gorgeous, vampy color! I loooove dark polish! 

Deborah Lippmann Across The Universe. <3 Words do not describe how much I love this polish! At $18 it's the most expensive polish I own. It's a navy jelly with various sizes of hexagonal and normal green & blue glitter. It's just FANTASTIC! If you only ever buy one Lippmann polish, this should be it.

Lippmann Ruby Red Slippers. I love this polish too! It's a black jelly with different sizes of hexagonal and standard black & red glitter. It was harder to apply than ATU (above), but I love the vampy look!

What do you think of these colors? Would you wear them? I <3 them all!