Showing posts with label duochromes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label duochromes. Show all posts

Friday, April 29, 2011

Nail Prisms: Golden Cinnabar 10

Nail Prism of the day is Golden Cinnabar 10. Golden Cinnabar reminds me a lot of Nubar Stardust. Golden Cinnabar is more vibrant and the colours seem more saturated.

Golden Cinnabar is duochrome that goes between golden tones to pink to brown tinged pink. At some angles the gold appears to have a green tinge to it. I used three coats, but this was not one of the runny watery Nail Prisms.






Golden Cinnabar 10
I wasn't sure I would Golden Cinnabar after seeing other peoples swatches on the net, but I actually really like it. It has this warmth to it. And just for comparison here's a picture of Nubar Stardust. This time Golden Cinnabar wins.

Nubar Stardust

Nubar Chameleons

Nick refers to my snazzy Nubar duochromes as chameleons and it's kinda stuck in my head.
These pics have been hanging out in my 'to do' folder far too long. I posted the first half of my Nubar Duochromes ages ago! You can check them out here if you want to :)


Dreamers Island
 Dreamers Island...not my favourite. Ok I actually really don't like this one, sure it's probably great for layering...but I wanted a pretty light purple duochrome...not something to layer. It's a very pretty pastel purple that shows off some pretty greens. I couldn't get the pic right, but I was feeling disillusioned with the polish. It's so sheer! This was four coats...4!



Moon Shadow
 Ohhh! Now this is a sexy duochrome. Dark eggplanty purple that shows off bronze, pinky purple and green tones? This one was three coats.



Indigo Illusion
 A more muted colour than I anticipated but a very pretty duochrome. I can see why it's so popular. Dusty blue that flashes green, pink and purple tones. My pictures don't do Indigo Illusion justice. Again three coats.



Wildlife
Wildlife is an odd colour. Olivey bright green with brownish red tones. Yes it does remind me of nature. I can't decide what habitat it reminds me of most...plains, forest, marsh... The tones it portrays are everywhere in our natural world. Again three coats.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Sexy Chameleons

The other day I was playing with my awesome new Nubars when my darling asked about them. His mistake, because I rambled on about them for a good few minutes calling them duo-chromes. To which he eventually responded "what are you talking about? I meant the chameleon colours".

He does have a point chameleon colours does seem to describe these Nubars, they never seem to look the same twice. The formulae on these are wonderful, yes some are thinner and you do need to be patient! But all of these polishes looked fantastic with 3 coats max. The only problem with these polishes is I can't seem to get it straight in my head which colours are the base and which are the duo-chromes!



Stardust. Yes I did buy this one because I liked the name. I wasn't sure about the soft gold/peachy/rosey colour, but I do like it. This is one of the thinner polishes and on the first coat I thought it'd never be opaque, but after 3 coats it covered even my bright white tips.



Iris dust. Now this is a sexy colour. So rich and vibrant and glowing. This was another thin polish I was worried about achieving opacity, but 3 coats and awesomeness. Look at all those rich colours, gold, bronze, orangey, maroon.



Purple Beach. My favourite of these four polishes. Purple beach is stunning. At some angles it looks totally radioactive green. Look at all the gorgeous colours! Purple, grey, gold, green and pink even. This one was fabulous in 2 coats.



 Peacock Feathers. Wow this polish is so hard to capture on camera! Peacock Feathers basically has it's own cult following, and I can see why. Not only is it the most gorgeous blue shade, but it truly is a chameleon. Blue, green, pink, purple, gold. Stunning. Pink/purple tones haven't been capture very well by myself...but they are there. If you look hard you can see!