Purple Grey

This is the colour I automatically go for first every time. When ever I look through colours in a range, my mind screams 'buy it!' when i come to the purple grey. My boyfriend asked me why I needed 12 different bottles of  same colour. Obviously he is colour blind, because they aren't the same colour. And yes, i do need them all. I just wish there were more clothes and make up in this colour so I could cover my whole body in it. These are my four favorites;
L'oreal - Delicate Dusk. Of the four this is the lightest with the most white in it.
Color Club - Give Me a Hint. This one is the most purple of the bunch.
Essie - Merino Cool. My personal favorite. I'm like Goldilocks on this one, hungry for purple grey, I find its not too purple, its not too grey, its just right.
Sally Hansen - Salon - Commander in Chic. The brownest of the four.

The photos show 3 coats of all except the Color Club - Give me a hint. I had to use four, and still there was a little bit of a bald spot at the base of the nail.

Which one is your favorite?

X SoozieQ

Hidden Treasure vs Nubar 2010

Dupes? Yes indeed.

These two nail polishes had been on my wish list for a long time.
They are exact dupes, except for the fact that the Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure has more flakies packed in.
The photos are taken with one coat of Hidden treasure and two coats of Nubar, no top coat.

I purchased both from Ebay, I've never seen either of these products in Melbourne retail shops.
Nubar I got for $9.95 US with postage, so that's around $9.40 AUD,
Hidden treasures was $24 US + $15  postage.
Yes I could have gotten 4 of the Nubar for the price of one Sally, but I've read that Hidden Treasures is a discontinued product, and i am more than will to pay that price for this bottle of beauty.

The Hidden Treasures brush is perfect for picking up lots of the flakies, it's nice and fat, I only needed two brush strokes per nail to apply.

These both look amazing over a black or dark bases that really make the flakies pop.
However as I work in a corporate office my fingers cant party with their nail polish as often as I'd like them to. Over pink I find it very work appropriate and lots more fun than the China Glaze Encouragement alone.
It looks like I'm wearing pink opals on my nails, I keep staring at them and moving them to catch the light.

My personal preference here is the Hidden Treasures, due to the brush and more flakies, it could also have something to do with me being a sucker for elusive more expensive products.

Do you prefer one over the other?

Stay cool & keep smiling.
X SoozieQ

Sally Hansen - Diamond Strength

My First Post!

These gorgeous Sally Hansen Diamond strength nail polishes were how my nail polish addiction began. I have to confess that I use to bite my nails, but then one day I was looking around Priceline during my lunch break and fell in love with these little babies.
These polishes have a wonderful consistency and apply like a dream. Some are quite sheer so 2 or three coats is required, however i have never needed to wear a top coat with them. There is never any shrinkage from the tips and i can wear it the whole week at work without any chips!

I purchased these from the price line pharmacy for around $16 AUD a bottle.

02 - Fairy Tale Ivory - is the sheerest of these four, however it is also has the sparkliest shimmer, in the bottle and on the nail you can see multi coloured micro glitter when you look up close. From a distance it is just a nice nude shimmer.
33 - Champagne Toast - I would say is more of a pink than a champagne. Like 02 it also has gorgeous micro glitter to get that sparkly shimmer.
65 - Nude Shimmer - I always wear 3 coats and it looks like more of a chrome on the nail unless you look very closely (which i often do).
77 - Antique Bronze - A really beautiful copper (or rose gold) colour. I can sometimes get away with one coat of this. Like 65 it looks like a chrome from a distance, and then when you look up close, its a very sparkly shimmer.

 

Nude Shimmer (above)

 Blurry Close up of Antique bronze (above and below) - slightly pinky - not too orange or yellow.

 Fairy Tale Ivory (above)

It was very hard to capture the sparkle in these photo's, much nicer in real life.

These are very safe colours that can be worn anywhere, and would suit any skin tone.
Ive only swatched Nude Shimmer and Antique Bronze, but let me know if you would like to see the others and ill take some more pics.


Stay cool
X SoozieQ