Acrylic Reds-Design Nail Arts

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- Nubar Ruby, index finger - OPI Crimson Carol, middle finger - OPI Smitten With Mittens, ring finger - China Glaze Stroll, pinky - Orly Glam. I have 2 coats of all the colors with Essie Good To Go! top coat. About Ruby, Crimson and Smitten I already wrote in Glittery Reds - Part 1, here. Stroll is a purple toned red with tiny purple and pink glitters and larger gold glitters/glass flecks. It´s the most sheer color from all of them in one coat (then Orly and Nubar; the other are pretty opaque). Orly Glam is not so purple as Stroll, but it´s a purple-brown toned red with tiny siver glitters (they are the smallest from all five polishes and almost invisible). I think Orly is the least interesting color from all five and has the most rough surface from them all (then Nubar; the other dry pretty smooth). All the colors are very close to the reality on the second picture except for Smitten which is darker in real life.

Nubar 24K - From Design Nail Arts

From the same collection (Nubar Royal Gems Fall 2009) as the brown Tiger´s Eye and the blue Sapphire. Opposite the previous two, this is sheer in two coats already. But nice. It´s a yellow-gold shimmer with a few gold glitters. I have 2 coats with Essie Good To Go! top coat. In real life it doesn´t have so much orange undertone as you can see here, it´s really a yellow-gold, more yellow toned than Orly´s Glitz & Glamour.

Nubar 24K - From Design Nail Arts

From the same collection (Nubar Royal Gems Fall 2009) as the brown Tiger´s Eye and the blue Sapphire. Opposite the previous two, this is sheer in two coats already. But nice. It´s a yellow-gold shimmer with a few gold glitters. I have 2 coats with Essie Good To Go! top coat. In real life it doesn´t have so much orange undertone as you can see here, it´s really a yellow-gold, more yellow toned than Orly´s Glitz & Glamour.

Nubar Peacock Feathers

Hooobah! Sorry for the vanishing act lately, guys. Just a bit of blogger's fatigue kicking in, along with moving day being a month away. Starting to get down to the business-end of things.

The "London Plan" has hit a bit of a snag in that I can't actually get a work visa in the UK unless I already have a job lined up and a sponsor. So the trip this year will basically have to be a fishing expedition, and if I get offered anything I'll have to say "Hold that thought!" and go back to Oz, apply for a work visa and then come back in a couple of months :)

If I don't get offered anything, then at least I will have taken the temperature of the job pool, and can work on some stuff to impress someone enough to want to "import" me.
Sigh. It's never easy!

So anyway - today I have another one of my Nubar haul for you. The cult fave "Peacock Feathers"....



Now, I have to say I was a bit disappointed in this. It just wasn't duo-chromey enough for me. In the photos it looks really nice, but when I wore it, it just looked like a quite normal navy blue/purple. None of the other colours "flashed" enough for me...


That being said, everything else was great - application, durability, etc. I guess I was expecting a bit more because of all the hype.




Bleh. I'm off to bang my head against the wall for a bit.
But not so hard I leave a dent and can't get my bond money back :)