Chunky Holos from Kleancolor Swatches

Kleancolor is a brand that many nail enthusiasts have been collection lately. It's very cheap, and has reasonable quality. I say reasonable 'cus it varies a lot how the quality is, sometimes great and sometime terrible. But, I mean, what can you expect from polish for  $1.75? You can buy your kleancolors at Beautyjoint here. 

I happen to have all nine of the chunky holo ones. They are the most attractive I think, so now I'll show swatches of all of them over both white and black. 

First some general on all the polishes. It's a sheer jellybase with small duochrome glitters in green and orange, except for the black one, but you can see that further down. These have a pretty thick formula, so be careful when applying. And they dry sooo sloooow. Really, even with fast drying top coats it was hell. I haven't tried the famous Seche Vite so if that works better I don't know. At least OPIs and LJs doesn't do the job. These photos are all two coats of the Kleancolor over Essie black and Essie white. 

Chunky Holo Purple

A very share lavenderish purple. The glitter is sparse, but has a nice duochrome. Over black most of the purple disappears, but looks great over white.

Chunky Holo Scarlet

The most opaque jelly in the whole bunch. A very nice and strong orangey red. This could probably even have done on it's own, or would have looked great over a similar red tone. The glitter however is far from duochrome. It's just dark red, which is also nice and it actually doesn't bother me that it's not as "holo" as the others.

Chunky Holo Fuchsia

It's a little bit to sheer. If it had been a tad bit more opaque the polish would have been perfect, but now it just turns into more of a neautral purple than a great fuchsia. Other than that the polish is good, just not my taste.

Chunky Holo Black

This is the most special polish in the collection and probably the most sold. Black has big chunks of round and hex glitters along with the small round ones. It's very duochrome, and looks best over black. Also great to spice up other dark colors like red or blue to give it some magic. Over white black just looks weird...

Chunky Holo Candy

Very cute name for a starter. And the color fits it. A candy pink is the best way to describe it. This is how I wanted Fuchsia to be more like. Over black it makes the black look a little orange, like that effect. And the glitter is packed!

Chunky Holo Clover

Over white this looks like a combo of spring green and mint green. Really nice. I wish the glitters in it would have been more blue and green than orange, but what the heck... Over black the green kinda disappears. I'll also throw in a picture of it over Nicole by OPI - One time Lime so you can see it over green.

Chunky Holo Poppy 

This one surprised me. In the bottle it looks like a great orange, but one the nail it's more brown. I don't have any brown jellys, or glitters for that sake. But I can't say I like the color... Nope, not for me. Maybe for someone else though.

Chunky Holo Teal

This one was kinda like Clover. Really great over white, kinda gone over black. I like it! The orange glitters gives it some really nice sparks, and over another blue it will look like fish scales!(post coming with that combo tomorrow!)

Chunky Holo Bluebelle

This one looks very duochrome and unique in the bottle, on the nail not so much .Yes. pretty, but not THAT pretty. It actually looks almost gray... Now, I've seen swatches of it over pink and green and that is some good stuff so I'll try that soon! Over black the duochrome comes great out however.

Now, that was all the chunky holos. Even though none of them actually are holos, more duochrome in the glitter. Scarlet, clover and black are my favorites!

# What's your favorite?

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Kleancolor - Chunky Holo Clover

Sophie showed Kleancolor - Chunky holo Funchsia on her blog the other day. And that reminded me that I hadn't tried all my Kleancolors yet. More important, I hadn't tried the one I was looking the most forward too. Chunky Holo Clover.

It's a very sheer green base with green and orange duochrome glitters. It's very nice, but not Amazing... I wish there had been more shades of green in there. What you are seeing is one coat of Nicole by OPI-One time Lime and two coats of Chunky Clover.

Now green is my absolout favorite polish color! I love almost everythin green, so of course this one became a little lover right away. But remember; Green polishes stains, and it if you don't use a base coat your nails will turn out extremely yellow!

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Kleancolor - Red Sparkle

This is a lovely lacquer from Kleancolor. A red jelly base with red and silver glitters.

The application is not problemfree, pretty hard to get even and dries extremely slow. I used two coats and had a hard time when applying the second coat. But the result is beautiful and the prize is cheap, so I don't mind some extra time putting it on.

I love this so much! The color really sparks up a dull day and a dark night!

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Purple holo jelly hex

I wanted to try Kleancolor - Born to be purple today, but I thought it was way to sheer to use by itself. So I decided to layer it over Nfu Oh # 66 (one of the amazing nfu holos), it turned out to be much more opaque than I though, but the result was cool! A purple holo, with a jelly finish and hexagon glitters. Pretty neat, huh? Used Makeup Store - Aqua fix as basecoat to make my holo work.

I think I would have liked it better if the hexagon glitters haden't been there, but it did give an extra spark to it! This is something I could have made an franken out of, what do you think?

Kleancolor - Metallic Red

This is a really beautiful lacquer from Kleancolor. Even though the name says Metallic, I would call it more of a foil. Just see the bottle picture:

It's very hard to mix the polish together to get an even color. You know you're not supposed to shake the bottle? You'll get bubbles, not good. You should  rub gently it bettween your palms to mix it.

But lets look at it on the nails! This is a wonderful raspberry color, and the foil/metallic finish gives it a unique look. I really love in on my nails, just want to eat it! If you don't have this and plan to order Kleancolor, put this in your basket! And the best thing? This is one coat!

Shade

Sunlight

So only negative thing is that when you get some color chipped of the tips it's really hard to fix it, becaus the color seems to be different everytime you use it. Since it's hard to get an even color. But it will just have to do, I love it anyway! Now I wish I had orderd more metallic Kleancolor!

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Kleancolor - Midnight Seduction

I expected this color to be more like Kleancolor - Holo Chrome, but I was really disappointed.

In the bottle it looks like a gray base packed with glitters, but what it really is is more like a clear base with pink, blue and gold glitters.

I guess it's good as a gliter polish, but I've never really been into those, so this was nothing great for me.

It's too sheer to use by itself so I swatched it over a white base.

Three coats over Essie - Blanc

This picture is with no basecolor just to show how sheer it is. Three coats:

Dried okey, but I needed two coats of top coat to make it shiny and smooth. The formula was thick and pretty hard to work with. So this is no starlacquer for me, but I can understand if somebody loves it! I'm just picky I guess...

And if you haven't already entered my giveaway there is still time! It's open intill Monday:

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Kleancolor - Forest Fairy

This color looked amazing in the bottle and I was so excited to try it. To my disappointment it almost didn't even show on the nail. Thats how sheer it was. I tried with 4 coats, and really, nothing...

So I layered it over Icing - Bright Green. Wich is a metallic green.

To my suprise and delight the color turned out to be pretty much the same as what it looks like in the bottle!

One coat of Bright Green and two coats of Forest Fairy.

Sunlight



Shade, Daylight

If it haden't been for the ridiculous sheerness of this lacquer it would have been a favorite.. I'll experiment with some layering over black and white, so I'll just have to see how it turns out.

It was a disappointment at least...