Hey Sailor! - Orly Royal Navy

Hello my dears!

Again, I am being a very busy little bee, but I just couldn't resist to show you this precious little new addition to my polish collection. Usually, I am not the biggest fan of Orly polishes, since I personally think the formulation is a bit too runny, I just find it easier for me to apply thicker polishes. Overall that is just a question of personal taste =)
So for 4th of July Orly came out with this Navy themed mini Collection including Star Spangeled, a red glitter (basically a China Glaze Ruby Pumps Clone), White Tips, a basic french Manicure White and Royal Navy, the best and I repeat the best blue polish I have ever seen!
In the bottle, Royal Navy does look like a navy blue creme polish, which would be quite gorgeous already, but if you take a closer look, you will notice tons of subtle iceblue/turquoise microglitter which looks AMAZING! Two coats get this all bright and opaque on your nail, the blue is so intense, one could think this must be a neon polish. I definitely don't own anything like this and this is by no means a blue version of China Glazes Ruby Pumps, this is much, much better!

So on to my favorite part, the picture evidence =)


Orly Royal Navy
sunlight












flash



natural light, indoors






indoors, artificial light









bottle pic & nail closeup







so what do you guys think of this beauty?
have a wonderful remaining sunday and read you soon again!

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!!!