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!!!

My last two Sally Hansen Beauties and some layering fun - Sally Hansen Ultra HD Spectrum and Laser

Welcome back my dear readers!

Today I am going to wrap up my posts about the Sally Hansen Ultra HD Collection with the last two shades I got, Laser and Spectrum. All in all, I absolutely love this Collection! For a drugstore collection the Ultra HD's are pure loveliness! By now, I can say the wear'n tear of the polishes is quite okay too, I had a little tipwear on day three and needed to change the polish on day 4. Fine in my book, since I am a bad girl and don't treat my nails very nice *argh*
I read a lot of Blogs saying it was a bit of a bummer that the Ultra HD's are quite sheer, but I actually see this as an advantage. Don't get me wrong, a do love ooomph colors that give me really nice coverage with two coats, but with these babies you can create some serious layering goodness, as you can bring out different effects with the glass flecks depending on the color of the base you use. I only used a simple black/white combo to show some basic effects, but the sky is the limit and you can use any base color you like. How cool is that?
Back to Laser and Spectrum, Laser is a beautiful dark blue with magenta glass flecks and silver reflects. It also is more pigmented than the other polishes, so three coats make it really opaque. I was not able to capture its real beauty in one of my pics. Darn it is sooooooo difficult to get these polishes right since they have so many different color reflects. Only chance for you to truly experience them is to go out and get them, hehehehe :-)
Spectrum is one hot summer polish let me tell you. It is a perfect turquoise, carribean sea shade. It is not really glass flecked like the other polishes, it is more silver/shimmery with a foil finish. It took me three good coats for it to be opaque, but now on my nails it just spells out "summer, vacation, beach, goodness..."
But let's move on to the evidence!



Sally Hansen Ultra HD in Laser
sunlight








indoors, natural light





bottle pic


indoors, artificial light






Sally Hansen Ultra HD in Spectrum
sunlight








indoors, natural light


bottle pic


indoors, artificial light






Layering over OPI's Alpine Snow
Order top to bottom:
- Laser
- DVD
- Spectrum
- Byte

sunlight





indoors, natural light





indoors, artificial light






Layering over a black stamping polish, again in the same order
top to bottom:
- Laser
- DVD
- Spectrum
- Byte

The black takes out almost all the color from the polishes, but makes the glass flecks really stand out!

sunlight


indoors natural light





indoors artificial light










Now, those were a lot of pics :-)
Hope you guys liked my swatches from the Sally Hansen Ultra HD Series!