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Posted by
Unknown on Monday, February 13, 2012
I love my sheer jelly pinks. These are the only two I have, but I am thinking about the future. OPI New York Ballet collection are all jellies. I'm going to try and get the whole set to review on Nail Juice. So that means I need to make room...
It's a Girl is on the pointer (left) and Spotlight is on the middle finger (right). Two coats of each. You can't fault either of them, they're both delicate glassy pinks that just make your nails look a million dollars.
It's a Girl gives you more of a milky pink build up and Spotlight is an extremely beautiful sheer pink, perfect for sprucing up tired or 'need a break from colour' nails.
Here is It's A Girl in all her glory. Girl was released two years ago and Spotlight was released just last year. So both are fairly easy to find.
I could't bare to part with either one. I might just have to wait for the Ballet's to compare them all!
Posted by
Unknown on Sunday, January 15, 2012
My sister let me take a photo of her french manicure!
She used a base of Color Club Milky White Base Coat, followed by a coat of Essie Mademoiselle, topped with NFUOh 050.
Very simple and easy to do :)
Posted by
Unknown on Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Samoan Sand has been around for sometime, at least a decade. I have admired it for some time, luckily for me, a bestie gave me one for Christmas.
I love it! It's a great sandy colour, a nice neutral nude creme. I don't know what collection this was originally released it. I have a feeling it just may have been one of those core OPIs from the start.
The formula is really nice. Quite smooth and creamy, dries fairly quickly. This is two coats here and you can still see my tips a little bit. You could build it up if you wanted it to be more opaque by putting more coats or layering over a ridge filler.
This guy yawning decided to cut part of his stomach open on the last day of 2011. So here he is resting up with his sister looking over him.
Do you have a perfect nude?
Posted by
Unknown on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
NFUOh not only does really cool flakies, but they actually do some really nice other finishes too.
I picked out these three shades to try NFUOh 073 over:
Top to bottom: Essie Marshmallow, OPI Curry Up Don't Be Late and I have a feeling it's China Glaze Platinum Silver.
At first I just tried one coat (obviously) to see how much effect 073 had on the polishes. The frost and pearl finishes didn't let you see much of 073, I think a creme, sheer or jelly is more friendly for this kind of thing.
Here we go on to two coats! 073 over Essie Marshmallow and naked nail were turning out to be my favourites. Although I really loved 073 by itself, I would probably never wear it that way.
The formula of 073 is great, smooth and thin. The only iffy NFUOh formulas I have experienced have been from the more sheer, french colours.
Please enlarge the photos to see the detail! It really is a pretty polish, looks great in all lighting situations too.
Now I don't really know where to buy these in New Zealand but there is a site called
FabulouStreet.com that ships internationally. USA residents can even get free shipping.
Posted by
Unknown on Saturday, October 29, 2011
Posted by
Unknown on Monday, October 10, 2011
Next up I have NFUOh's 050 to show you. 050 is an almost clear purple base with blue and green flakies. If you start to layer 050 up the purple base slowly builds up on some colours but doesn't alter others.
Here I have one coat layered over bare nail, Makeup Store Young, OPI Mermaid Tears and Color Club Secret Rendezvous. I chose these three colours because these are the shades that 050 reflects; green, blue and purple.
I think 050 over these pastels looks really sweet and delicate.
We've got two coats of 050 now. Of course you can do as many layers as you like with 050, the flakies just get more and more intense and you start to lose the base colour more.
I really like how these flakies show variation in colour and you get something different at every angle.
050 is my favourite NFUOh, right beside 052.
Here are a couple of other times of when I've used NFUOh 050 in a manicure:
Posted by
Unknown on Thursday, October 6, 2011
Today I've got NFUOh's 084 to show you. 084 is a mainly purple glass fleck shimmer but it also contains gold and blue. It does have a tint of purple in it's base but it's quite sheer. So it could alter your nail polish underneath if you layer it up a bit.
Here I've layered 084 over bare nail, Essie Sexy Divide, Color Club Wild at Heart and OPI Ink.
I wasn't able to see 084 in the sun as the polishes I used as a base are quite reflective themselves. But in the shade you can see what a pretty effect 084 has on the purples.
Like a lot of the other shimmers and flakies, 084 doesn't look all that great on it's own. You can also see the slight tinge of purple it gives.
With two coats of 084 you can see the sparkle of it more over the purples here. My camera wasn't actually able to capture how pretty it looked in the sun.
And again in the shade you can see how lovely 084 is over these purples. It reminds me of a not-completely-black OPI DS Mystery.
More NFUOh posts to come!
Posted by
Unknown on Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Today I've got NFUOh's 055 to show you. 055 is a sheer green glitter base with orange flakies that shine from red to gold. Sometimes you get a glimpse of blue in the bottle but it's very hard to see it on the nail.
For this experiment I've layered 055 over bare nail, OPI Jade Is The New Black, China Glaze Emerald Sparkle and Sally Hansen Glow.
We're on to two coats here. So as you can see, like a few of NFUOh's polishes, they look quite bland by themselves but when added to something else, they just bring a whole other dimension to the polish!
I am in love with 055 over Emerald Sparkle. It just looks like they were made for each other. The effect of 055 is quite subtle of the like green frost. I do like it over Jade but I think it just pops against the darker green of Emerald Sparkle.
Keep an eye out for more NFUOh posts!
Posted by
Unknown on Sunday, October 2, 2011
Today I've got NFUOh's 083 to show you. 083 is a red based glass fleck that doesn't contain much of a base colour. So it's ideally used as a layering polish. 083 is mainly red shimmer but also has pink and gold.
This time around I have layered 083 over bare nail, OPI Sanguine (AKA Royal Rajah Ruby), China Glaze Dress to Kill and OPI Guy Meets Gal-veston.
I think 083 looks stunning over Sanguine and Dress to Kill. It doesn't really look all that exciting just by itself.
Feel free to enlarge these to see the detail more clearly.
This is two coats shown now. I tried layering 083 between Guy Meets Gal-veston but I think I should have done another coat of 083 on top, just to make it that little bit more sparkly.
More NFUOh posts to come!
