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Welcome to another edition of vs.!

The face off today features three similar colors. All are black with silver glitter, but how closely do they really compare?

The Heavyweight: NARS Night Breed is the newest of the three colors and the most expensive and possibly coveted.
The Middleweight: Nubar Knight’s Armor is from spring of 2010 and not too expensive but not super cheap either.
The Lightweight: Orly Goth is the oldest of the three. She’s also the least expensive and the most easily found.

In the bottles they look pretty similar. All are black with heavy silver glitter. You can tell from looking at the bottles that Night Breed and Knight’s Armor look like they have heavier more prolific glitter than Goth. In Goth you see a lot of the silver kind of sits there not looking very well dispersed.

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I am pretty sure you’ve heard by now that there is a new reality show about a nail salon called The Painted Nail on the TV Guide channel. I haven’t seen the show myself because I don’t get that channel in HD (HD snob here) and I don’t really watch reality TV much.

In conjunction with the show Nubar released a collection of polish printed with “The Painted Nail” logo on them. There are about 24 colors in the collection that go from sheer pale colors, to deep sparkly ones.

I haven’t reviewed a new Nubar collection in a long time and had kind of forgotten how fabulous their formula is.

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Happy Black Friday! I don’t know about you, but I think those people who get up to go shopping at 4:00 am are out of their minds! There is simply no deal that great for me to get up that early, besides most of those deals will be the same online on Cyber Monday anyway.

Anyway, as I was looking through my brown nail colors I came across this beauty that I had kind of forgotten about. Nubar Raspberry Truffle. This was one of my favs from their Chocolate Truffles collection. Continue reading »

Dear Nubar Diamont,

This isn’t an easy letter to write. We were once so close, you and I. Remember how I searched for years to find you? I was with so many others, but none had your brilliance. No one else protected me as much as you did. No one else dried so quickly. No one else lasted as long. No one else could compare to how level you were.

But now things have gone terribly wrong. You have changed in ways I cannot understand. You are so thin now. You take forever to dry. In fact I don’t think I could even call you fast-drying anymore, which cuts me to my very core. I opened you up recently fully expecting the joy of what you once were but 10 minutes later, my nails were still sticky and wet. I was crushed.

Others have noticed this change as well. It’s not me, it’s you. Continue reading »

Happy Friday Internet!

How are you on this fine day?

Today I’ve got Nubar’s new spring collection called Sparkles. This is a collection of eight colors packed with very fine, sugar-like glitter.

For me, the formula on these wasn’t the greatest. Having said that, I was rushed and didn’t have a lot of time to let each coat dry in-betwen coats. These do tend to cause bald spots and cuticle drag if you apply the coats too fast, and that’s what I did. So I can’t say for sure if it was the polish’s fault or mine or both. But some of these did turn out better than others.

In these pics I started off with the sun shining but literally 15 minutes later it was completely grey and cloudy. So you might notice some pics are darker than others, sorry can’t fight Mother Nature!

Oh about removal, yes it’s a pain. Just remember, soak a cotton ball in remover, leave it on your nail for 20-30 seconds then wipe off in one single hard stoke down the nail. Then use the other clean side of the cotton ball or a new one for the remaining glitter so you don’t spread it around.

Now peep em out!

Star Sparkles

Star Sparkles is filled with silver and holographic glitter. What I really liked about this is that the coverage was really great. A lot of times when you have a silver glitter polish, it seems sparse and isn’t very opaque. This is great on it’s own. This was three coats.

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