Glitterati Overload - Nubar Sparkles Collection Part II

Hello everybody!

Just as promised, here comes the second part of the absolutely amazing Nubar Sparkles Collection. If I haven't mentioned it so far, I absolutely love, looooove Nubar's polish formula. I mean, it really works with my nails, so usually a polish will stay on a week with no problems and I am indeed hard on my poor nails.
But enough said already, we want to see pictures, right?


Nubar Petunia Sparkle
This is magenta glitter in it's perfection! Very bright and vivid, this color just jumps right at you, love it!

















Nubar Meadow Sparkle
*sigh* this is not what i had hoped for. I wanted this to be a vivid gras green glitter but instead, it's very toned down, mossed green color with silvery glitter. The base is barley tinted, so the polish is really sheer as well. Don't get me wrong, it is quite pretty, I am just totally bummed out by the fact that it isn't at all the polish I had expected. Oh well.














Nubar Fire Sparkle
OMG Thank you Nubar, for not just bringing out another Ruby Slippers Clone! Yay! This is fantastic bright on the spot vampy red with golden refects. This is Hot!

















Nubar Night Sparkle
Another wonderful shade. Dark Blue full on Glitter, yay! I love that the blue is rich and deep in color, but still looking blue and not being just dark and almost black looking.










So there, the sparkles collection all wrapped up. I don't regret for a single second that I splurged and got all the polishes. I looooooove those glitters, so thank you nubar!

Glitterati Overload - Nubar Sparkles Collection Part I

Hello my lovely fiends!

So, after sporting neons and holo polishes of all sorts for the past days I moved on to another passion of mine, glitter polishes, hehehehe
I know that removing glitter polish from your nails can be quite a pain in your behind, but in my opinion, it is oh so worth it! Plus, I might say it does give me some sort of hollywood aura, meaning with all this glitter, bling-bling and sparkle on my nails boy do I have a reason to wear dark sunglasses =)
So today I am presenting to you what must be the mother of all sparkle collections, the Nubar Sparkles *yay* I divided this in two parts, because one post would have contained a gazillion pics, which are sort of too many I guess...
So let's start off and take a look at those glamour beauties!

Oh, just one more thing:
Sweet Tini from Tini's Nailcorner tagged me for my favorite 10 nail polishes, I hope I will get to do this tag real soon, so stay tuned for that!


Nubar Star Sparkle
This is a clear base with silver/holographic glitter. I do like the glitter from this collection, since it is so fine and densely packed in the polishes. Despite the clear base, two coats gets this almost opaque, which means on the other side that Star Sparkle doesn't really work as a holographic TopCoat since the glitter is too densely packed. So it is not unique as a silver/holo glitter polish, but nevertheless this is beautiful!























Nubar Violet Sparkle
Boy, this is one of my personal highlights,let me tell you! Again, this is a clear base but its literally OVERLOADED with dark purple/violet/dark pink glitter! This is sooooooo droolworthy I couldn't stop staring at my nails! the pictures don't do this polish justice, there was no way for me to capture the complete complexity of this polish on camera *sigh*

















Nubar Sky Sparkle
Clear base ith sky blue glitter. I don't know why, but I have the impression that the glitter isn't as packed in this polish. Two coats don't give you the desired coverage, I actually applied 3 coats on the pics. It still is a beautiful color, not only sky blue, but with a hint of turquoise glitter effects. It is a bummer though that it doesn't really cover as much as I would have liked...














Nubar Hyacinth Sparkle
Judging by the promo pics, I wasn't to excited about this one, but once on my nails it blew me away! The polish features a lightly tinted base and loooovely lavender glitter. It is a cool toned lavender, purple color to beautiful to be true! I must say, this might be the prettiest purple glitter I own. Funny how you can misjudge a polish just by looking at it in the bottle or from a promo pic. So I am more than glad that I picked this treasure up!
















So stay tuned for part two!!!

Starting a dark romance - Gosh Black Passion

Welcome back my dear fiends!

Sorry for my lack of posting, I do feel quite ashamed *blush*
March is quite a crazy month for me, 3 birthdays within my family, my best friend had her baby boy and on top of that work, work, work...
Besides, spring still decides to not show up, hence my choice of color today...BLACK!
But, don't make up your mind too fast, we are not talking about the "yes I have seen this a million times goth pitch black color", nope this is something else. This is the softest black hue I have ever seen, I would even go as far and call this beauty a "romantic" black. Gosh Black Passion is a beautiful black jelly, charcoal tinted, leaning towards a dark grey (without being grey!) and it's got beautiful silver veining. Usually veined polishes tend to be streaky, but not this baby! The polish applies quick and smooth without being to watery. 2 coats give you perfect coverage. I love this polish! So who says black is not a spring color? *winkwink* :-)



Gosh Black Passion







Indoors artificial light




with Flash




I would be insane to not use this polish as a base for a beautiful glitter. I chose China Glaze Cleopatra, a slightly gold/coppery base with gold glitter. Perfect combination, or what do you think?











So that's it for today, I hope this weekend will be more quiet and I get some more time to post lovely polish for you guys. Tomorrow I am leaving for Chicago, so hope to see you friday my dear fiends!

Who is Blue Monday's sister? Wicked Wednesday of course! - Gosh Gasoline

Hello my dearest fiends!

Today I wasn't very creative and just grabbed one of my new Gosh pretties, Gosh Gasoline. As the post header says, Gosh Gasoline is basically Gosh Blue Mondays twin sister, but instead of being blue, this one features some wicked blue/purple shimmer embedded in a purple jelly. Jackpot! Love it!
The only differenc eis maybe that Gasoline is not as extremely sheer as Blue Monday. But the difference is marginal, so instead of 3 thick coats I only needed like 2 3/4 coats hehehe ;-) Kidding


So here goes!


Gosh Gasoline





As you can see, the jelly base is very sheer, so the polish leans towards being more pink than purple to the eye, but you can also see that the shimmer is not only purple, but with bluish reflects






To be honest, I was a bit bummed out that I didn't get that beautiful dark purple glitter that I see in the bottle. But hey, I wouldn't be Lady Layering if I wouldn#t try to fix this with a second polish. So I picked up a gorgeous dark dirty purple from P2's LE What a girl wants and used it as a base. Here comes the result:





Much better, huh?






I also put two pics together with photoshop, to show you how much darker the polish gets when using the dark purple base, sorry for my amateur work...






So that's it for today! For tomorrow, I picked out something exciting in green, so stay tuned!