Going through my boxes of polishes, and I grabbed China Glaze It's Alive from the 2010 Halloween Haunting collection. It's a green glitter in a green base - both microglitter and larger round glitter. My brush was a bit on the "fluffy" side, not thin and uniform, but more like a kabuki brush.
I used a base coat of Duri Rejuvacote, 2 coats of polish and a top of CND Air Dry. Even though this is a bit of a thirsty glitter, it was smooth after just one coat of CND Air Dry.
Here in the sun, you can see how nicely opaque this polish is! I had a bit of a clean up issue on my pinkie, mostly to unsteady hands.
In the shade, this color really pops! The different glitters really show up nicely even though it's all green.
Indoors with the flash - not as amazing... looks very mossy green - great Halloween polish but also St. Patrick's Day! If you can still find this color at a local salon/beauty supply store on sale, snatch it up!
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Before chopping down to nubbins, I decided to get a few more nail polishes swatched while I had beautiful long nails. I picked up this awesome nubar duochrome - Purple Beach - while at Cosmoprof North America. It's still available on their website (product S203) for $8.00.
I used a base coat of Duri Rejuvacote, 2 coats of polish and a top of CND Air Dry. I was super pleased that this color was opaque in 2 coats, no base of black needed!
In the sun, the purple color is quite apparent and on the edges of the nail, you can just slightly see the green. I completely looked past the streaky/pearl finish on this polish because it's so pretty - you don't really realize it!
In the shade, again the purple is more apparent than anything else. I attempted a picture inside with the flash but the camera couldn't focus properly so I ended up with lots of blurry pictures.
I told you this was a duochrome! The green duochrome is best seen in indirect light. I couldn't stop taking pictures once I figured out how to get that green to be seen, because on your nails, the duochrome is super apparent. It's nice and strong and you'll constantly be twisting your hand around. Definitely a happy Krystal here with this polish.
nubar can be purchased on their website for $8.00 a bottle in the US. They do have international retailers in Russia, Sweden and the UK. You can like them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter although their Twitter has been a bit bare lately.
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So I'm still in love with my Duri Rejuvacote. I've been wearing it under all manicures or just on its own and my nails have NEVER been this long.
However, on 13 January, I suffered a blow.
Boo. I don't even remember what I was doing when it broke but the next day it snapped right off when I was taking out the garbage so I'm back to nubbins. Here's my left hand as well.
You can see how thin my nails are on the index finger - nearly translucent! Now I need to see about something to make them thicker since the growing is good. :] Duri just recently came out with a top coat as well called Miracote that I will probably be checking out when I'm done with my bottle of CND Air Dry and Seche Vite.
Duri [Website] can be purchased on their website or in salons. I purchased my bottle for $15 at my local salon - it's priced at $14 on their website.
Crawling out of my hole to get some blogging done. I've mentioned it before, but I have rheumatoid arthritis (psoriasis) and just recently had to go off my medication because I can't afford it anymore. This is the first time in a year and a half to be off it and I've been in pain and lethargic. We've also had nothing but icky rain and clouds lately which aren't the best photo scenario. This NOTD was from 7 January, but I'm just now writing about it. Ugh.
I have been wanting to play with my new NCLA polishes since they came in, and decided that Miss Sunset Strip needed to be on my nails now. I used a base coat of Duri Rejuvacote, then China Glaze Harmony from the Romantique collection, next my Miss Sunset Strip and topped it all with CND Air Dry.
I know it's a bit hard to see the awesomeness that's going on, but don't worry - I'll have individual reviews of each color coming soon (probably by the end of the week?) so you can see what's what.
I love all the pretty holographic and purple glitter from Miss Sunset Strip and then the beautiful purple base from Harmony. I'm just mostly a purple fanatic all the way around.
Indoors with the flash, and this doesn't do much justice. It almost looks like my polish is wrinkling, but I promise it's not. Love this combination - would definitely wear it again!
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The final color of the Fall Fever 2011 collection from Dr.'s REMEDY is Noble, a dark blue creme. For this manicure I used a base of Duri Rejuvacote, 2 coats of polish and a top of CND Air Dry.
Okay, so I need to clean up better on my cuticles... funny how we always notice things like this LATER. :| But seriously - check out how nice this color is! It's a straight creme, but a beautiful navy blue.
In the shade, this picture just looks weird - it's like my nails have a green cast to them? Either way, this picture doesn't show the true blue (hah) that this color has to offer.
Finally indoors with the flash and the color really pops here! I can't wait to wear this color again but with shorter nails and in the winter. And maybe with some white glitter over it... ^_^
Dr.'s REMEDY [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] Enriched Nail Polish is available for $16 online at http://www.remedynails.com or by calling 1-877-323-NAIL.
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