Nubar Purple Rain Glitter

Nubar Purple Rain Glitter is a polish that I didn't even know I wanted until very recently. I think the primary reason for this is that it is a beast to photograph. It took a lot of experimenting with different lighting set ups to get this to photograph true to life. I took a ton of pictures before I got any that I was happy with. Most pictures I saw of Purple Rain Glitter made it look like silvery glitter in a purple base. Well, it isn't. Check it out.

Purple Rain Glitter is actually very, very fine holographic glitter suspended in a rich, sort of grape toned jelly. It's like having a million little twinkling lights on your nails.

This is three coats, one coat of Gelous, one coat of Pro FX quick dry. I'm not entirely sure that the Gelous was necessary, but I wanted this to be 100 percent smooth. The formula is fantastic and dried pretty fast given that it was three coats.

Unbelievable. I'd have bought it a long time ago if I'd realized that this was how it looked! 

Just perfect. When Nubar rocks it, they really rock it. =)

Happy Sunday, folks! Thanks for reading!

Nubar Indigo Illusion

Okay. I have no idea how to describe this polish, but I'm going to try! Indigo Illusion is another of Nubar's stunning duochromes. I would say that the base color is a pale, murky teal. I was expecting to be slightly more blue, but it has a distinct green tinge on my skintone. It has a shimmer that is sort of a lilac color.

The duochrome in Indigo Illusion shifts to a light purple, which I couldn't seem to capture, then all the way to green and to gold.

This polish was a major challenge to photograph, so I finally settled for just taking a bunch of pictures instead of trying to capture the individual color shifts. 

It really is simply amazing, and I own nothing even remotely like it. I was afraid that it wouldn't work on my skintone, but I truly ended up loving it. The formula was flawless - very easy to control, full coverage in two coats. Total love.

Hope you all are having a lovely Sunday evening. Thank you for reading!

Nubar Moon Eclipse

Moon Eclipse is the polish formerly known as Moonshadow. I think Moonshadow was a much better name... but I digress. The polish is beautiful no matter what it's called.

I love me a good multichrome, and Nubar makes some of the best. The base color on Moon Eclipse is a deep, rich, smoky berry that shifts to a chocolatey brown and over into a bronzey type shade. I've heard that you can also get it to shift to a greenish shade, but I didn't have any luck getting that to come out to play.

This is three coats. Two was almost enough, but it was a little sheer at two coats. Three was perfect.

Moon Eclipse is a little watery and had a tendency to pool at my cuticles, but I should have been on the lookout for that since it seems like a lot of my duochromes have that problem. Other than that though, the formula was pretty good.

The sun came out today, so I was able to get some sunshine shots of this beauty too.

So amazingly beautiful. *sigh*

Happy Wednesday, my sweet readers! Hope you all are doing well, and thanks for reading!

Nubar Absolute

Nubar Absolute was released in spring 2010 as part of the Prisms Collection. It's a pale blue polish with a rather weak scattered holographic effect. I was on the fence about this polish for a long time, but I was recently able to swap for it, so here it is.

It's nothing super fancy when indoors, kind of a light silvery blue. But it does have that typical shimmery holo finish that I love so much. This is kind of like the light blue cousin of Catrice Dirty Berry in that way. I la-la-love the finish on these even when the rainbows aren't shooting off my fingertips. 

I took it for spin outdoors and it lights up in the sun. As I mentioned, it's a pretty weak holo effect. It's not one of those holoiest holos that ever holoed or anything, but it's quite lovely.

Like a lot of scattered holos, I found the formula completely fuss free. I did need to use three coats because it's rather sheer, but the color builds well with no streaking or other nonsense.

I love Nubar's brush as well. It spreads well and makes it easy to control the polish. I had barely any cleanup at all to do, which is always so nice. =)

And here's a macro shot of it in the sun.

All in all, I'm very happy with this baby. I really need to add more Nubars to my collection. Hope your weekend is going well, and thank you as always for stopping by my little blog!

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Nubar Reclaim

I'll keep this short and sweet. If you like holo or green at all, you need this polish. The formula is amazing, 2 coats over my normal Pro-FX Epoxy Bond base, topped with Pro-FX Quick Dry, which didn't dull this holo at all.  And, of course, the color is to.die.for. Bright green holo? Yes, please!

Indoors with direct light

Indoors in direct light

Indoors in lightbox

Indoors in direct light

Outdoors in full sun

Outdoors in full sun

Outdoors in full sun

Outdoors in full sun

I'm serious. You need this if you don't have it.

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Nubar Blue Hydrangea

I don't have a ton of Nubars, and sometimes I'm not sure why that is. They have great colors, I like the brush, the formula has been good on the ones I've tried. I guess other things have taken priority over my amassing a giant collection of Nubar. But! When I saw this one, which is part of Nubar's spring 2011 collection, I knew I had to have it.

This is one of my favorite light blues. I hesitate to call it a pastel because even though it is light, it also has a brightness to it that makes me think of summer skies. I guess it's halfway between pastel blue and sky blue.

The color isn't the only thing I struggle to describe. You can't really see it in these pics because I really couldn't capture it no matter how hard I tried, but the finish is like a frost... only without the gross frost brush strokes. There's shimmer going on here, but not shimmer as I normally think of it. The finish almost reminds me of a pearl - shimmery, but completely smooth.

The formula is buttery perfection. No dragging or bald spots or other miscellany that makes light blues such a nightmare normally. If you like light blues at all, do yourself a favor and pick this one up. It's just lovely!