Rainbow Serpent - Spectraflair Holographic Top Coat Franken

When I bought Spectraflair, I spent a lot of time stuffing it into different coloured polishes to make them holographic. Why do that when you can get a similar effect from putting Spectraflair into a clear polish and layer it over the top? This is how my version, Rainbow Serpent, was born.

The Rainbow Serpent would be the one of the best known entities from stories of the Dreamtime, especially to non-Indigenous Australians. You can read some of what Wikipedia has to say about the Rainbow Serpent here.

Take one bottle with clear top coat. In this case, it is Rimmel Superwear. Add Spectraflair and ball bearings. Shake! Because this is not a suspension base, you need to shake it each time you use it to disperse the Spectraflair pigment. Over time, the particles settle out of the polish.

Such a pity that the rainbows are hiding in my pictures. Today I swatched this over another one of my frankens, Mystic Fire. Rainbow Serpent will dull the colour of the manicure in low light but you can still be surprised with tiny sparks of rainbow fire. But on to some pictures with some of the rainbows showing.

The more you layer, the stronger linear holographic effect you get. And the duller your manicure becomes with low light. I managed to get this picture with the iPhone with three layers of Rainbow Serpent and it was more holographic in reality.