Cirque Colors Cypress Holographic Nail Polish Swatches and Review

Are you all taking advantage of this sunny weather by wearing as many holos as you possibly can?  I know I am.  Nothing quite like that gorgeous, magical, flickering rainbow of color blasting you in the eyeballs every time you look at your nails that a good holographic polish can provide.  Here's a recent one from one of my favorite indie brands, Cirque Colors. It's called Cypress and it's from the Objet d'Art collection (sent for review).

 Cirque Colors Cypress.  A light metallic copper with fine-textured, scattered holographic effect.  The copper shade looks a bit darker in the bottle than it appears on the nail, and the holographic rainbow is not quite as intense as it appears on the side of the bottle.  That said, it's still an incredibly lovely color.  The hologram look is delicate but very visible (the particles are smaller than in most scattered holos, but still well-defined), giving a fairy-dust overlay effect to the copper metal base.  Looks much more pronounced in direct light.

The formula was good.  Cirque's holographic shades have a much different texture than other holographic polishes.  They feel and flow and apply like a normal shimmer polish, not like a dense, sometimes streaky foily/dense metallic.  I found this particular shade to be on the sheer side and I needed three coats for complete opacity.  Dry time is not as fast as a 'normal' holo, but but it isn't slow.  Same as any other Cirque polish.  I used no basecoat or topcoat and this manicure lasted well past a week with little noticeable damage/chipping/tipwear, which is also very unusual for a holo.

Sure, the holographic effect could be stronger, but I still like the copper base color of this a whole lot.  I don't have many copper polishes, which is odd because I really like copper because it reminds me of fall.  The holo effect is just icing on the cake.  Oh yeah, it's scented, too.  I love that.

Cirque Cypress is available at cirquecolors.com!

(Sent for review.)