Andamooka - 796 - Professional Gel Polish 15ml

Andamooka - 796 - Professional Gel Polish 15ml

**Colour Story & Identity**
Clear-bright, light-fractured, alive with hidden colour. Andamooka takes its name from the small outback opal-mining town in northern South Australia, 600 kilometres north-west of Adelaide on the edge of Lake Torrens — the only place on earth commercially mining the rare matrix opal, where rainbow play-of-colour sits suspended in translucent host rock rather than sitting on its surface. Hold a polished Andamooka matrix opal up to the light and the stone reads as a clear, frosted window with sudden flashes of pink, green, blue, and gold appearing at depth as the angle shifts. This shade captures that exact stone-as-window moment. The base is a clear gel — the natural nail still reads through — and the suspended flake is fine holographic glitter packed densely into the formula, calibrated to flash a different colour every time the hand moves. From one angle the dominant flash is silver-white. Tilt the hand and pink emerges. Catch direct sunlight and the green and blue come up. The overall read sits cool-of-neutral but never reads as a fixed colour, because the holographic flake refracts whichever wavelength is strongest at any given moment. The result is the most dimensional finish in the OPAL gel range: a polish that reads less as a single shade than as a controlled flash of light. A single coat already throws colour; two coats deliver maximum density without blocking the natural-nail base.

**Wear Experience & Styling**
Andamooka is a celebration shade — wear it when the occasion calls for movement and light. Pair with sequins, satin, leather, mesh, raw silk, or any festival-leaning palette that benefits from refracted light catching it. Both warm and cool metals work because the flake refracts every wavelength in turn — so gold, silver, rose gold, and copper jewellery all sit cleanly. Layer over a deep navy or oxblood cream for an opal-on-velvet effect where the rainbow fire pops against deep base, or apply solo over clear builder for transparent rainbow glitter on the natural nail. For nail art, French-tip in Andamooka over a clean white cream for a contemporary holographic tip, or run a single accent finger across four creams for a controlled flash moment. Application tip: apply two thin coats rather than one thick coat — the holographic flake refracts more vividly when layered through depth, and a single thick coat tends to bury the deeper flashes.

**Skin Tones**
Andamooka flatters every skin tone differently, and the read shifts more by lighting than by undertone. Fair and porcelain skin tones gain a frost-bright lift with strong cool-pink flashes coming forward. Light and medium tones get a clean rainbow shimmer that flatters cool and warm undertones equally — pink reads stronger on cool hands, gold reads stronger on warm hands. Olive skin sees the warmer flashes settle handsomely against golden undertones, with copper and gold pulling forward. Deep skin tones benefit most from the holographic mix — the rainbow flake reads as polished play-of-colour against rich complexions, with green and blue flashes lifting most clearly.

**Best Worn For**
Festival weekends, summer music events, New Year's Eve countdowns, milestone birthday parties, school formals, hen's parties, modern bridal manicures with a non-traditional brief, awards evenings, gallery openings, end-of-year racing carnivals, holiday celebrations, and any occasion where the brief is movement, light-catch, and refracted colour rather than a single fixed metallic.

**Pairs With**
Layer over a deep navy cream for a true matrix-opal-on-velvet effect that lets the rainbow fire pop. Pair beside a clean black gel for the highest-contrast holographic-on-monochrome moment. Run alongside a polished white cream for a bridal-with-a-twist direction where the rainbow does the colour work. Sit it next to a soft champagne metallic for a mixed-light pairing where every shade catches a different wavelength.

**About the Finish**
Glitter finish suspended in a clear gel base. The flake is fine holographic glitter, calibrated to refract a different wavelength at every angle — pink, green, blue, gold, and silver flashes appear at different depths as the hand moves. The clear base lets the natural nail read through the polish, so the holographic flake reads as suspended fire rather than coverage. Light reflects off the flake at multiple depths to mimic the play-of-colour of polished matrix opal. Top coat brings a clean glassy gloss that intensifies the rainbow refraction without dulling the dimensional fire.

**Colour Type**
Cool-toned silver-white with fine holographic refractive flake suspended in a clear sheer base. Saturation reads at the lightest end of the OPAL silver range — no underlying pigment, all suspended flash. Sits in the silver/grey family on the OPAL colour wheel, with a faint cool tilt and a holographic mix that prevents the shade from reading as any single fixed colour. A close cousin to polished matrix opal, dichroic glass, oil-on-water iridescence, and the rainbow-fired stones pulled from the Andamooka opal fields.