Essence Holografics 04 Prismatic White Swatches and Review

This is the polish that I've been obsessed with lately. I love it so much, I can't get enough of it.


Essence Prismatic White. I'm sad that my pictures do no justice to this gorgeous polish, but I think they give you an idea of how it looks. It's a white-based shimmer that flashes many different colors. The main colors I see in most lighting conditions are strong blue-aqua-turquoise with pink and purple at the edges. It switches to a deeper purple and pink at a more steep angle, but when you tilt your hand the other way you get a bright green on top of the blue that looks like it's about to shift to yellow. The color shift is very strong and the colors look much more vibrant in real life than they look here. They're pastel shades, but they're definitely not weak.

The formula on it was good. It was in the middle in terms of texture; not thick enough to say it's thick, but not thin enough to call it thin. Right in between. I was afraid it would be frosty and streaky but it's really not at all. Any brushstrokes that were present during application disappeared when the polish dried. Dry time was good. I did three coats for this picture, but only because I was trying to cover the tipwear on a three-day-old manicure. I wore it with only two coats and it was perfect. Three coats will just intensify the color shift and make it a little more opaque.

This is similar to a few other polishes I have, like Nubar Angels Whisper, but to me it's the best one of them all. It has the strongest duochrome effect, flashes the most colors, is the most opaque and dries the quickest. It's so beautiful that it's distracting; I find myself looking at my nails changing colors when doing normal tasks instead of paying full attention to whatever I'm doing. Typing is pretty bad... it's really distracting while I'm typing. It looks so cool and magical, though, it's hard not to stare!

This is the only polish I have from the really bizarrely named "@Holografics.com" collection by Essence. It's not holographic, but it is a multichrome. Are the other shades as amazing as this one? Maybe I don't want to know because I probably won't be able to get them. Stumbling upon this one was a fluke as it is. The only other items I saw from the @ holographics .com collection were a duochrome blue (too heavily used to buy, sad) and a "holographic" (but not really holographic) blue duochrome glittery body oil which I did buy. Seems like it must have been an amazing collection, but I never see the Essence limited collections around here, just a small selection of permanent colors in super tiny bottles.

Anyway, amazing polish. Easily my favorite white-based polish now. Have worn it several times since I bought it and there's a pretty big dent in that tiny 0.33 oz bottle now. Maybe I should look into finding a backup because I never want to run out.