My love for romantic Holo's - Nubar Prism Collection

Hello hello my dear fiends!

I survived yesterday's attack of monster dorkyness and I am back to my old self again, yay! I was also able to catch a glimpse of sun today, so I am finally able to show you two polishes that I have been saving for a while. Lucky you!
When I first heard about Nubar bringing out a "Holo" Collection I was like, jumping for joy, Holos and from Nubar? That's two things I LOVE :-) So of course, I was super excited when I saw the first swatches of the Collection. Hmmmmm, to be honest, I was pretty cooled down then. The Nubar Prisms are nothing like China Glaze OMG Collection and that's what I wanted them to be, so of course I was a bit bummed. Nevertheless, I couldn't keep my fingers off the ordering button and still got two polishes from the Collection, Absolute and Treasure. What should I say? I was delighted :-) Yup, they are no OMG Holo's, but they are just something else. I would say they are more in between a sparkle and a soft Holo, more like the China Glaze's Kaleidoscope Collection. So to sum it up, I would say the Nubar Prisms are romantic sheer shimmers with a soft Holo.

But now on to the evidence ;-)


Nubar Absolute


This more a turquoise than a blue, makes me think of carribean waters, pretty!




on this bottle pic you can see how fine the glitter/holo sparkles are




I needed three coats, the base is pretty sheer, I am usually not a big fan of sheer, but in this case it totally fits, as the whole effect of this polish is very light and airy




blurred pic, to show the holo effect a bit




I think I will put this on my summer polish drawer, what do you think?


Close up pic:






Nubar Treasure


Pretty light purple color, not extremely unique colorwise, but me likes purples :-)





Again, on this bottle pic it really shows how finely grained the holo/shimmer is




Another three coats, but I guess if you would add the fine holo grains to a thicker, more opaque base you would totally lose the effect




another blurred pic for the Holo hehehe :-)




I sooooooo wish that the sun would have come out a few weeks sooner, this is such a pretty spring color!



Close Up!





So far for today gals...I am off feeling pretty and romantic now ;-)

Springtime! NOTD with holographic goodness - China Glaze He's going in Circles

Welcome my fiends!

The sun is out and I do feel that spring is moving closer, yay for that! My mood is rising the more snow is melting outside in our garden! Maybe looking outside at all the green that is slowly peeking out of the snow made me pick todays polish, who knows?
So, China Glaze He's going in circles is a glitter/holographic polish that came out as part of the Kaleidoscope Collection. If you look at it, you might think it is a glitter polish, but its structure is completely smooth, like a Holo. So I call it holographic glitter (I know, I can be insanley creative lol). What you get with this polish is a beautiful, light seafoam colored polish with glitter/holo effects. Love it! Two coats are fine to be opaque, you can make the color stand out more if you use a base in the same color, so anything light green/moss colored would do. I love how this one applies totally smooth, not as gritty as most glitter polishes do.
So here we go:


China Glaze he's going in circles













Hope you guys liked my quick intro to spring! I am off again, trying to catch a bit of todays sun! read you back here soon!

The Grand Finale of my Loot, Part 3

Welcome back my dear fiends!

Finally wrapping up my little Hong Kong Shopping Spree, hehe!
So, let's skip the talk and get on to the final facts!

First Beauty I am presenting here is one of the fake Nfu.Oh's



Isn't this one a little gem? Sparkling pale lilac/pink with just a dust of holographic glitter, you have to loooooooove this polish!



The formula of this was quite runny, but okay. It didn't dry as quick as the Holo's from China Glaze, but overall okay. The color makes up for everything, I swear!



I was just playing a bit with it, adding a matte Topcoat, which looks nice as well, but this is sparkling a far better stunner, can't tell you how bummed out I am that next time I can expect some sunshine around here will be in march *grump*



Too bad my pics can't do this polish justice, you can just barely tell by looking at the bottle how this is sparkling!




Now on to the pale dusty blue/silver sister!



Isn't this pure lovelyness? Totally reminds me of China Glaze's OMG, but waaaaaaaay sparklier!



I just can't keep my eyes of this, I really like how dense the holo glitter is packed in this polish



I am not someone who goes hunting for fake polishes to save money, but these two I simply couldn't resist because of their beautiful color.


So my final polish for today: China Glaze "Drinking my Blues away"



I am a sucker for blues at the moment *grin* this one is a deep, dense blue with tiny purple and blue glitter sparks in it. Lovely!



I am really happy with this polish, perfect formula, wonderful color!



I know there are a bunch of beautiful blues out at the moment, just thinking China Glaze's "Dorothy Who?", OPI's "Absolutely Alice" and some more...but in my opinion, it is definitely worth picking up this baby. Love the purple glitter flecks!



So that's it, thanks for bearing with me!
Tomorrow I will do something vampy for you guys! LOL

Hong Kong Loot Part 1

Hello my fellow fiends!

Hope you all had a great weekend! I spent most of my Sunday swatching, picture making and watermarking LOL

Hong Kong is such a breathtaking city, I can't wait to go back! I just love the people, the food, the bars...But I guess I am sort of off-topic here, last time I checked, this is a nail polish blog and not a travel log *grin*

So here goes, my Hong Kong Loot:


I got:

Essie Aruba Blue, China Glaze Drinking my Blues away, Organic Farm N09, Creative Turqoise Tint and Flannels, Fake NfuOh 11 and 07





Here are the 2 Creative polishes, I can't tell if they are real or not, since I don't own (as of to date) any Creative polishes. They are the old design, with all the bad stuff in it, nevertheless they are absolute beautiful, I just adore the metallic magenta!





Two gorgeous polishes, unfortunately in fake NfuOh bottles. Actually, the bottles look like a love child of a NfuOh bottle and an OPI DS bottle with the silver handle, look at the next picture to see what I mean:



funny, huh?



Organic Farm Glitter Polish, this one was my least favorite, since the light teal base color didn't show at all.



Last but not least, my two blue beauties, Essie Aruba Blue and China Glaze Drinking my Blues away. Simply breathtaking!

So let's start the in depth review, shall we?

I will go by my personal ranking, starting with the polish I liked least:



Organic Farm 09, Glitter Nail Polish





As mentioned, the light teal base unfortunately doesn't show at all. Bummer. The Glitter is quite nice, reminds me a lot of China Glazes Fairy Dust. Which actually then gave me the idea of using it as a topcoat. I used a couple of different colors to check for the effect:







I really liked this a lot. Not an outstanding glitter topcoat, but decent.







It definitely looks nice on the magenta base!







Personally, I like it best on the darker bases, the blue-violett base I put on my pinkie looks fabulous with the glitter on it!





Another big, BIG plus: This glitter was easy-breezy to remove, I had no problems at all!

So my fellow fiends, that's it for now, Part II of my Loot is up for review tomorrow, so stay tuned for more!