Picture Polish Hope

Hello ladies! Today is a festival of Picture Polish swatches...I'm trying to work through my backlog of unblogged swatches.  "Hope" is a dark blue holo polish, and was a Collaboration shade released in 2013:

 

Picture Polish "Hope" - artificial light

Pictured here I'm wearing two coats of Hope atop NE base with HK Girl topcoat to finish.  The formula on this one was really tricky to work with.  It's so densely glittered that there's a lot of 'clump and drag' with this polish and it was hard to even it out.  The best option is to wait until the first coat is really dry before applying the second (and it's definitely a multi-coater as the first coat goes on pretty streaky).

Picture Polish "Hope" - artificial light

Hope is a deep navy jelly with tons of holo glitter and light blue hex glitters.  The hex glitters seem to prefer to stay stuck to the sides and base of the polish bottle (you can see them bunched up below the text on the bottle in the pic above) - I didn't manage to get many at all on the nail despite shaking it quite hard before hand.  You can see one lonely hex glitter on the bottom of my thumb nail here...these give a pretty effect, I'll have to try fishing for more next time.

oooh shiny :)

Hope is a pretty shade, but not nearly as sparkly in real life as I was expecting.  I think this is due to how dark the base shade is.  If you're in the market for a dark blue glittery holo then I'd say look no further than Smitten Polish Klaatu Barada Nikto.  This offering from Picture Polish is a great polish, but overall I was a little underwhelmed by it, especially given the spendy pricetag.  There's a lot of comparisons online with Picture Polish Cosmos, which is also a blue holo, but being a lighter shade of blue I think the sparkle might pop more on that one.



Picture Polish "Hope"

I picked up Hope from the lovely Sally Magpies (link in Supplier page) for £13.50.