Top 20 of 2011 Part 2

Hi everyone!

Super quick post, we're having a dinner party of sorts tonight and I need to get my butt down there and help out! I apologize for the crappy pictures of the last three, but they arrived Tuesday and the weather hasn't been nice enough to do much with regards to photos! Sorry! They'll get their own posts in the future, promise!

Ozotic Pro 534

 Glitter Gal Frappe

 Nubar Reclaim - Hands down my favourite green holo ever!

 Cult Nails Unicorn Puke/Clairvoyant

Cult Nails Hypnotize Me

 Models Own Pinky Brown

Models Own Purple Blue

Rescue Beauty Lounge Piu Mosso

 

Rescue Beauty Lounge Scrangie

Rescue Beauty Lounge Tudor collection (shown above is Jane)

Yes, for that last one I cheated and chose the entire Tudor collection as my favourite! ;)

Alright, time to make my way downstairs and help before I get yelled at! Hope y'all have a great week!

Marisa

My Current NOTW - Glitterbomb

Hi everyone!

My schedule won't really allow for many breaks to change up my mani, so I've been coping by just doing something I think is totally awesome on the weekend and keeping it on throughout the week.

The (left hand) mani for this week was more or less the result of the awesome Summer weather more-or-less turning into nasty Fall rains overnight. I don't have anything against Fall, but I really hate it when the weather just changes overnight. I need these things to happen gradually.

I just noticed that my hands are playing Summer/Fall right now. I just chose a colour and put it on my right hand a few hours ago and it's this really nice brick red by Wet N Wild which reminds me of Fall leaves. OMG. I just put this on a few hours ago and I ALREADY have tipwear?! Okay. This is coming off. LOL.

Anyway, back on topic.. the left hand mani is the one I was going to show you now, so I should get around to showing you soon. ;)

Ah, a glitterbomb to end the Summer. Perfect. I did this randomly on a nail wheel when I was bored, and I found it intriguing.. so it graduated to my nails. :P

For this look, I used:

Base: China Glaze Calypso Blue (I'm afraid to take this mani off for fear that my nails will be smurfy underneath even though I used basecoat)
Glitter: Nfu Oh #40, #56. Cult Nails Hypnotize Me, Nubar 2010, and this Kiss Nail Art polish which is mostly purple glitter (I can't remember its name/if I ever saw a name).

Hope you all enjoy! I'm diggin' glitter right now!

-Marisa

Peacock Feathers Revisited..

Hi everyone!

TGIF! I'm glad the weekend is here even though a lot of things went a bit wrong today.

Before I go any further, I'd just like to point out this article which has caused a rather large ripple in the Nail Polish/Beauty blogging community. Don't worry, I'm too exhausted to rant about it, but I feel that Mary has described it perfectly. I guess all I can say is that I started my blog because I became infatuated with nail polish as a hobby, and since no one that I knew felt the same way, I decided to start it online to share my thoughts with like minded people. I've never received free products from companies for review, and I never expected to. I'm thankful for each of my followers, because you all make me feel appreciated, especially since I never expected anyone to want to read my ramblings when I first started out!

Anyway, enough rambling now.. I'm not particularly happy with the pictures I initially took of Nubar's Peacock Feathers, so I took more the last time I wore it. I'm particularly happy with how some of the photos turned out, but I apologize in advance for my messy cuticles -I'm still learning!

Okay. That's all of the Peacock Feathers spam..

Now, I just have a random picture for y'all.. I saw this when I was in a gift shop at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum and immediately thought that this would make an EPIC nail polish colour! Of course, a polish like this is probably impossible or at least very, very difficult.. but I'd like to share with you all anyway!

This is a Bismuth crystal, grown in Germany!

Oh yeah! This is a quick picture of what we've received in the past month.

 

-Marisa

Nubar Iris Dust

Hi everyone, happy Sunday!

I'm coming home today, so I'll make this quick and let the pictures speak for themselves (or mostly)

Nubar's Iris Dust is a gorgeous duochrome that looks pinky-purple most of the time but flashes gold in the sun. Formula is a bit sheer, but it is definitely worth it!

Thank you for reading!! :D

-Marisa

Nubar - Moon Shadow

Good evening everyone!

Just another quick-ish post, I just got home from a back-to-school shopping expedition. I finally got a new camera! :D

Today's featured polish is Moon Shadow, by Nubar.

Moon Shadow is probably my second favourite duochrome from Nubar. It's a gorgeous maroon purple-orangey-gold colour shifter, depending on the angle you have your nails at.

Just in case you're wondering, my number one favourite Nubar duochrome will be featured in a few posts in the future (actually in 3 posts).

That's all for today, I have to start planning out our trip details.. I love travelling, but I really hate doing itinerary stuff. :(

-Marisa

Nubar Indigo Illusion

Good afternoon everyone!

Gosh, I really do love days off! I managed to sleep in, but I did "accidentally" wake up at 5:30 in the morning thinking I had to haul myself out of bed.

I managed to edit all of those pictures I had in queue (isn't that the weirdest word ever? it looks totally wrong) but unfortunately I noticed that all of the pictures of one polish in particular (I'm looking at you Westside Warrior) will need to be redone. Le sigh.

But aside from all of that rambling, I have a gem I got in the eBay parcel that arrived a while ago to show y'all!

Sorry for the blurriness of that last shot, that was the best of the bunch of pictures I had taken.

But aside from that, isn't Indigo Illusion gorgeous? It's a smashing green to lavender-ish duochrome. Actually I'm thinking this may be dupeish to a handful of other polishes out there, so I'll do a comparison when the last one I have on my mind arrives (I believe it's a Zoya), which will be sometime in September.. So if you're interested, stay tooned! :D

Hmm, well I think that's all for today. Take care everyone!

-Marisa

Green Holo Goodness - CG L8r G8r & Nubar Reclaim

Hey everyone!

I can't wait until tomorrow is over.. usually around this time I get really nervous about exams.. even if it's just a midterm, so when this midterm week is over, it'll be a whole lot of relaxing and nailpolishing!

Today I have some gorgeous green holos for y'all.. but unfortunately one of them is HTF and pretty expensive on Ebay. I found China Glaze's L8r G8r by chance while going by a dusty salon. Actually, they had the entire 2bhot set, but they were selling that for $50 (I only like a few colours so I didn't think it was really worth it). They had an open pack too, so I ended up getting L8r G8r and TMI.

Anyhow, back to the nails..

The China Glaze OMG holos are probably the most holographic nail polishes I've ever worn. You can even see the holo indoors, which is awesome. It's a shame they're discontinued, because I'd buy this stuff up in the boatload. ;)

Nubar's Reclaim is pretty awesome too! It isn't as crazy holographic as L8r G8r but it is a gorgeous green that I LOVE.

By the way, this is two coats on each finger, and there is some VNL in the photo, but it isn't very apparent in person. And if you're wondering.. Yes, I do wear alternating colours occasionally. LOL

That's all for now, it's time to get back to work and study >.<

Psst. Tomorrow is also the launch of the Cult Nails Hypnotic Collection's Presale! You can get all 4 new polishes for $30! (Guess who needs them all? :D )

-Marisa

Nubar - Peacock Feathers and my first attempt at Konading

Happy Tuesday everyone,

We had an election yesterday (Canadian federal election) and I could say a lot about it.. but.. let's just avoid it.

Anyhow, my sister recently bought Nubar - Peacock Feathers off of Ebay, and she was kind enough to bring it over so I could get my paws on it. Peacock Feathers is a nice deep purple duochrome that flashes blue, gold and green in the sun (like a peacock's tail feathers..). I used 3 coats for the pictures below (sorry for the slight tipwear, I didn't have time to take pictures until now, and it didn't help that it rained miserably all day yesterday).

Peacock Feathers in the shade, a deep eggplant purple (you can see a bit of the duochrome here on my index and middle fingers)

Peacock Feathers in the sun, with green and gold showing.

I thought the formula was good (maybe a tad on the watery side) but I had no difficulties applying the polish. It's a very mesmerizing polish, and I think I may get some of the other Nubar duochrome polishes in the future. The wear on this polish isn't too bad either, this was done Sunday and it only has a slight bit of tipwear even though I had bashed my nails around while doing some gardening.

My sister also had ordered some Konad and Bundle Monster plates.. so today I had fun playing around with stamping.

For the stamping I used BM15 and BM20 in Color Club - Fashion Addict (which is a slight holo) over Peacock Feathers

BM15, BM20 in Fashion Addict over Peacock Feathers (shade)

BM15, BM20 in Fashion Addict over Peacock Feathers (sun)

Not too bad for my first time stamping either.. I think I'm hooked! :D

Nubar - Peacock Feathers is currently discontinued, but can be purchased on Ebay.

In other news, we've just made a large order of polish from online, and should be getting it sometime in the next two weeks!

Have you tried Konading before? What stamps are your favourites to use? What is your favourite duochrome polish?

-Marisa <3