Try It Out Tuesday: Maybelline Color Show "Holographics" - Mystic Green"

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Hello lovelies! Welcome to (the late night edition of) Try It Out Tuesday! I'm very excited to be joining my girl Gini from Sassy Paints for TIOT. What a great way to get through some of my gigantic stash of untrieds!

Today's polish is from the "Holographics" Collection that Maybelline's Color Show line recently released. Note that the word Holographics is in quotes up there....Yeah, someone needs to look that word up because these polishes are nowhere near Holographic. If anything, they are very mild duochromes with a very metallic finish. I picked up 2 of these when they first came out, solely because I like the colors - I was well aware that these had zero holo to them. Still, it kind of irks me that these are being marketed as Holos. Very misleading.

For today's TIOT I chose Mystic Green to try out. This color is a gorgeous green with strong yellow undertones. It does have a slight color shift to a darker, more emerald green, but otherwise it's just a pretty metallic polish.

This is 3 coats with topcoat:

I have to admit - I do love the color. But I just can't get past the "holographic" claim being so far from true, as well as some other things....

Mystic Green's formula was a pain in my hind end. Very thin and watery at first, only to thicken up into a glop fest. Application was just as rough with a lot of streaking, some serious balding and dragging, and since the polish thickened up a ton - bubbles. The kind of bubbles that even the best top coat can't get rid of. If Mystic Green was an actual Holographic polish, it might be worth the hassle. But......it's not. I am disappoint, Son.

I do have another color from this collection to try out, and I'm really hoping that the formula isn't as bad as Mystic Green. These colors are truly beautiful, so it's a shame that they don't hold up (at least in my eyes...who know? I may have a bad bottle.).

Have you tried any colors from this collection?

I'll be back tomorrow with more Indie awesomeness so come back soon!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber




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