Nubar Reclaim

Hi all. I can't let the whole month of March go by without a single post so here's my green mani for March.

I finally busted out my Nubar Reclaim. I wore this with a couple of racing stripes. I didn't always have the sun to bring out the holo but the green is lovely either way.

Nubar Duochromes: Wildlife with black saran wrap design

Hello polish lovers!

I can't believe I'm getting a post before one week from the previous post! Having a child is wonderful but it's seriously a moratorium on free time for the forseeable future! A little update, last weekend we got some professional photography done with our little guy. I am so excited to see the pictures!! The photographer we worked with was wonderful. She had him quiet and mostly sleeping for most of the photo session, which was the better part of four hours. I was sorely tempted to ask her to come by at night and put him to sleep at bedtime too :-)

This is the last of the Nubar Duochromes that I have. To see the posts for the others, follow the links below.

                Indigo Illusion

                Purple Beach

                Iris Dust
                Moon Eclipse

Onto today's look. This is Nubar Wildlife. It has a pink/bronze shimmer head on with murky green edges. As the light shifts, you can see the shift towards brighter and brighter green.

I embellished this one a bit by adding black with plastic cling wrap. I painted it on the plastic and then carefully dabbed it onto completely dry base. On the ring finger, I added a coat of Jessica 18K gold flake polish.

And here are the collages and the video.

Nubar Duochromes: Moon Eclipse

Hi folks! Today's Nubar Duochrome feature is Moon Eclipse. This one has got a much more wine colored base to it. It starts off as an eggplant purple shimmer that shifts through burgundy then bronze then a greenish copper tone. Another beauty!! Here are the links to the others I've shown so far:

                Indigo Illusion

                Purple Beach

                Iris Dust
                Wildlife

Nubar Duochromes: Iris Dust

Hi everyone!

I'm back with another installation of the now seemingly endless swatches of the Nubar duochrome polishes in my possession. Or maybe it just seems endless to me since that's the only thing I've been working on for the last couple of weeks. Follow the links below to see the other posts:

              Indigo Illusion

              Purple Beach

              Moon Eclipse

              Wildlife

Today's polish is Iris Dust. The duochrome effect in this polish starts off with a warm fushia glow with edges of darker purple. It then transitions to a burnt orange color that glows like fire and finally ends at a yellow that has a hint of green in it. The color shift of this polish is amazing in real life. When I was swatching, I was tempted to just stop with this one and keep it on my nails for a full manicure. You can see this progression below with the collage and video at the end.

Nubar Duochromes: Purple Beach

Hi everyone!

So, I've finally started to get used to the multiple nighttime awakenings. I even managed to get a nap in on a couple of days here and there! I don't know how long it's going to last but one thing I've figured out is to get anything done, carrying him around in a wrap really works. Five minutes after putting him in one of those, he is fast asleep.

So, on to nail polish. Today's post is part two of the Nubar Duochrome swatches. This is Purple Beach. In the bottle it looks sort of greyish with a purple shimmer. The purple shimmer in this is stronger than in Indigo Illusion. The links below can take you to the other swatches:
             Indigo Illusion
             Iris Dust
             Moon Eclipse
             Wildlife

It also has a green shift when viewed at an angle.

Here are a couple of pictures in sunlight.

Here is a collage of what the color shift looks like in my lightbox.

This is a sunlight collage.

And, of course, here's the video!

Nubar duochromes: Indigo Ilusion

Hi polish lovers!

So, things are finally starting to settle just a little bit at home with the little one. There are some learning curves involved, like how not to snap at everyone around me when he goes through a fussy day or two and nothing seems to console him except walking around with him in the middle of night. But, I have managed to find a few stolen minutes here and there to paint my nails, catch up on work, write blog posts... etc.

Today's post and the next three after this are actually going to feature swatches that I did the weekend before my entire life changed, heh. I have been coveting the Nubar duochromes and my third trimester pregnancy addled brain finally convinced me that I deserved them for as miserable I was feeling. I got five, swatched four. The missing one is Nubar Wildlife, which I hope to get swatched soon. The ones I have swatched are:
                Indigo Illusion
                Purple Beach
                Iris Dust
                Moon Eclipse
Nubar did have other duochrome polishes as well but I'm not sure where to find them now. I got these on Amazon.
Edit: I did manage to swatch Wildlife as well.

Today's post is Nubar Indigo Illusion. I'll show the others in the next few posts. I want to feature each one individually in separate posts because I'm not sure I can smush all that awesomeness into one post.

Nubar Indigo Illusion has a greyish blue color that reminds me of the stormy seas color. There is a purple shimmer. With a change in the position of light, a strong green shift can be seen. In the sunlight the purple shimmer is even more obvious.

The picture below shows this polish in the sunlight.

Here's a collage...

And, finally, I think these polishes are really best understood with a video so here's the video!