Nubar Purple Beach

Here is another of the Nubar duochromes, I haven't shown you any of these in a while and this is a great one to come back with, in my opinion.

Purple Beach is an amazing duochrome, it shifts from purple to green, and shows a few shades of each.

I have tried to capture all of the shifts so I apologise in advance for the abundance of pictures.

This is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of Purple Beach and 1 of the Shield.

Thank you for looking as always <3 xx

Nubar Jeans Collection - Dark Wash (Polka Dot) Jeans

Today I have for you the third, and final, polish from the Nubar Jeans Collection, Dark Wash Jeans.  The others from the collection are Faded and Boyfriend.

Dark Wash Jeans is a dark blue polish which again was opaque in 2 coats.  Here is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of the polish and no top coat.

And again here is the above mani with the Polka Dot Collection layered on top, pointer 1 coat of Polka Dot White, middle Polka Dot Black and ring have both, all with 1 coat of the Shield to finish.

Hope you have enjoyed my Jeans Collection and thank you for looking <3 xx

The Polka Dot Collection was sent to me for review, the Jeans Collection was purchased by me.

Nubar Jeans Collection - Boyfriend (Polka Dot) Jeans

Today I have for you the second polish from the Nubar Jeans Collection, Boyfriend Jeans.  You can see Faded Jeans here, and Darkwash Jeans will be coming up soon.

It is a mid blue colour, kind of dusty looking, I really liked this one too.  It was easy to apply and opaque in 2 coats.

Here is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of Boyfriend and no top coat.

Again I used the Polka Dot collection layered over Boyfriend Jeans.  On the pointer we have 1 layer of Polka Dot White, on the middle we have 1 layer of Polka Dot Black and on the ring we have 1 layer of each, and then one coat of the Shield over all.

I liked this one with the Dots over it, as the blue is very mid toned both sets of Dots show up very well.

The Polka Dot Collection was sent to me for review, the Jeans Collection was purchased by me.

Nubar Jeans Collection - Faded (Polka Dot) Jeans

Today I have for you the first polish from the Nubar Jeans Collection, Faded Jeans.

I was originally just going to do a post with all 3 of the Jeans polishes but decided each one deserved its own and it gave me an excuse to use my Polka Dot polishes again......

I think Faded is my favourite of the Jeans, it is a gorgeous pale, icy looking blue which also has a subtle light blue shimmer running through it, I wish all 3 of the Jeans had this shimmer as it is what really makes Faded the standout of the collection.

First I will show you Faded alone.  This is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of the polish and no top coat.

Then I used the Polka Dot collection, also by Nubar, you can see these over black and white here but here I have layered them over Faded Jeans.

On the pointer we have 1 layer of Polka Dot White, on the middle we have 1 layer of Polka Dot Black and on the ring we have 1 layer of each, and then one coat of the Shield over all.

White did not show up very well on Faded, but I really liked it with the Black and there is something I absolutely love about wearing both together.

I will get the others from the Jeans Collection up shortly so you can decide about which you like best.  Thanks for looking <3

The Polka Dot Collection was sent to me for review, the Jeans Collection was purchased by me.

Nails Inc Gossip Girl - Lily

Today I have for you the last of the Gossip Girl collaborations from Nails Inc, Lily. See here for the Blair set and here for Serena. I am quite sad actually that there are only the 3 of these as would love some more of the Overglazes as these 3 have been stunning.

Here is a picture of the Lily set.

Lily is a very dark black/plum base, coverage was great with 1 coat, and could have possibly just been left at that but here is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 coats of Lily and no top coat.

And now for the Overglaze, which is called High Society in this set.  It is described as a red/green overglaze on the Nails Inc website but to be honest I did not see much red in this, mostly green (a couple of different shades) and gold, and a very slight hit of blue sometimes at the sides but no red.  That does not, however, change how much I like this polish, as the fact there isn't red makes me like it more (more info coming up on this soon).

For now here is the above mani with 1 coat of Overglaze and 1 coat of the Shield.

I love this collection too and still cannot decide which is my favourite so I am so glad I have all 3.

Now back to why the lack of red is a good thing, I am sure when many people (me included) seen the description for this Overglaze, it sounded an awful lot like Nubar 2010, which I have shown you before here and matte here, I was so happy that when I actually tried them together they are not that similar at all.

High Society has a lot more of the green/gold flakies where as 2010 does show green but the main colours are red and orange.  I would also say the flakes in the Nails Inc polish are larger than the Nubar.  Here is a quick comparison picture for you to see, this is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of Lily and 1 coat of High Society on pointer and ring fingers and 1 coat of 2010 on middle and pinkie fingers, with 1 coat of the Shield over all.

Thanks for looking and I hope you have liked these collections.

The Nails Inc product was sent to me for review, the Nubar was purchased by me.

Nubar Polka Dot Collection

I have for you all today, the Nubar Polka Dot collection.

This collection consists of 2 polishes - Polka Dot Black which has a clear base with large black hexagonal glitter and smaller black hexagonal glitter and Polka Dot White which also has a clear base and large white hexagons and smaller almost holographic hexagons.  Application was fairly easy, although some of the larger dots did require slight repositioning with the brush to spread over the nail fully.

I decided to try these firstly over black and white polishes to get a monochrome effect.

So first here is Polka Dot Black.  This is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of Nails Inc Floral Street, 1 coat of the Polka Dots and 1 coat of the Shield.

Next we have Polka Dot White.  This is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of a-england Camelot, 1 of the Polka Dots and 1 coat of the Shield.

Then I went a little bit layer happy and decided to try something else out.  I wanted to try both dots over a grey, I needed a mid toned grey so both sets of dots would show up, so I chose Nails Inc London Sky.

So here is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 coats of London Sky, 1 coat of the Black Dots, 1 coat of the White Dots and 1 coat of the Shield.  Whew, thats a whole lot of layers!

I love these Polka Dot polishes!! I cannot wait to try them over all sorts of different colours to see what they look like.

What do you think of this collection?  Will you be picking any up?

Thanks for looking as always <3

The Nubar polishes in this post were sent to me for review, all other polishes were purchased by me.

Nubar Pasadena Purple with Nails Inc Bloomsbury Square

I have for you today yesterdays mani post with a bit of extra sparkle.  Bloomsbury Square is part of the Nails Inc 3D Glitter collection.  It is a clear base with small purple glitter and larger pinky red glitter.

I have only used my Bloomsbury Square once before so I thought Pasadena Purple would be a great base to wear it over.

Here is yesterday mani with 1 coat of Bloomsbury Square and 1 coat of the Shield which gave a smooth finish.

Thanks for looking xxx

Nubar Pasadena Purple

I have for you today Nubar Pasadena Purple, when I bought this one, it was described on the website as a 'rich metallic purple', I would describe this more as a pearly looking finish, not a standard metallic.

I really liked wearing this polish, such a pretty shade of purple and I don't really think I have another like this in my collection.  I still have a few Nubars to show you all but so far I have been very happy with the ones I have got.

Here is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of the polish and 1 of the Shield.

Thanks for looking as and always, feel free to leave me a comment <3 xx