Blue Holo Comparison: Chirality CU2+ VS. Elevation Muztagh Ata

I am super excited today to share with you my first ever comparison post! 

I received both of the polishes quite recently, having swapped for the Elevation, and bought the Chirality with a recent sale they had! They arrived within a few days of each other. If you've noticed anything so far about me and nail polish, you notice that I love two things most of all:

BLUE!

HOLO!

OMGZ!

Upon their arrival, one night I'm sitting on the couch just holding them in my hands, admiring the beautiful color and trying to decide which, oh which pretty should I wear this evening? As I keep ogling the sparkles catching in the lamp, I realize, HEY- THESE LOOK PRETTY DARN CLOSE IN THE BOTTLE! I wonder how they look next to each other on the nail...?

Thus, my first comparison was born.

My first photo is to show them both in their bottles, outside in direct sunlight, in all their glory. Here you can truly see the difference in color. I'm sure you'll think, "Wait, you thought these were close enough to possibly be dupes? You're crazy girl!!"

 But wait until you see later pics!

As you can see, both appear to be super holo- you can see the rainbow reflecting like crazy! But in direct sunlight, CU2+ is definitely a much darker blue, close to A England's "St. George" to my untrained eye,  where Muztagh Ata almost looks like a sea blue.

The next two photos I have to show you are taken indoors, at night, under artificial light. This is when they appear to be closer in the blue color spectrum, at least to my own eyes.

On my fingers: Index and Middle fingers is Elevation "Muztagh Ata", and on my Ring and Pinky fingers is Chirality "CU2+"

And these final photos were taken outside, in direct sunlight. Again, Index and Middle: Muztagh Ata. Ring and Pinky: CU2+.

There are no dupes here! Chirality CU2+ is much more visibly holo both in shade, light, and indirect light. If you prefer a more subtle holo, such as for work, or to just be a bit more low key, then Muztagh Ata is the blue for you! But if you want to show off that sparkle, and love a deeper shade of blue, snatch up CU2+ now!

Both of these polishes are available through their makers still. Elevation polish only stocks 2x a month, but Chirality is always full with stock! You can sign up for email updates from Elevation, and check out Chirality's Facebook page HERE for updates on new polishes, sales, etc.

You can find their shops here:

Chirality - Big Cartel

Elevation Polish- Big Cartel

Thanks for reading!

xo, Sara//Tomboy Nails

**These polishes were purchased or swapped for by myself for my own pleasure. All opinions expressed are my own, and in no way influenced by another party, nor necessarily a shared opinion of anyone reading.**

I'm Back!! Meet Ruby White Tips "Gemini"

 I'M BACK!!!!! BOY have I been busy! I'm sure you don't care about the boring details of puppy training, and snow storms every week which have kept me away this long... so let's get right back into things! 

I'm back today with a brand new (to me) brand called Ruby White Tips! 

Laura, the creator, reached out asking for any brave souls to try some upcoming releases! I replied, and was sent this beauty named "Gemini" that is part of the Kaleidoscope Collection she is releasing TOMORROW! (03/30/2013) Other ones coming out include: Gracelyn, Amethyst, Dangerous Trick, and Capricorn!

 "Gemini"

 Outside, no editing/filter:

 

 Inside, daylight & artificial light:

 

  Inside, daylight & artificial light:

 

  Inside, daylight & artificial light:

There aren't enough words to share how much I enjoy this polish!! It has all my favorite colors, and depending on how you look, the angle of the sun, etc - it changes!

I used 2 coats with topcoat, and accented with Femme Fatale "Star's Lament" on my ring finger. I had this on for FIVE DAYS- no chips. Gotta love it. Super easy removal as well!

Ruby WhiteTips Facebook

Ruby White Tips Etsy

20% off** code valid until April 30, 2013:

"SARAFANS"

**Not good on Mystery bags or the BatWorld.org collection!!**

xo,

Sara // Tomboy Nails

 **This product was sent to me for review. Opinions are my own**

Pretty & Polished: Pinkie Pie

Happy Tuesday!

I am excited to be sharing with you one of the new (re-released from last year) Limited Edition Valentine's Day polishes from Chelsea at Pretty & Polished! 

I was sent a sample mini for review. Mine arrived a little later than we anticipated as some of my mail still tries to go to my old address, and I had to wait for this pretty pink glitter polish to get forwarded to me!

Packed full of different shades of small pink hexes, small pink bar glitters, and fine holo-looking glitters.

I took a few photos in different types of light to try and show how it looks throughout your day. I hope you enjoy!

 I layered two coats of Pinkie Pie over L'Oreal's Butterfly Kisses, and Essie's Blanc as an accent nail. Photo above is in early morning direct sunlight. So sparkly!

 Mirror photo is of course inside, under house lighting.

 This photo was taken in the afternoon in direct sunlight.

And finally, again, under house lighting.

You can find this polish, and many other Valentine's Day treats, from her Shop or on Etsy!

Happy Shopping, and thanks for reading!

xo,

Sara//Tomboy Nails

Different Dimension (Part Three: Finale)

As promised for after lunch, here are the final two polishes in my review of Different Dimension polishes. I saved these for last because I had the most trouble capturing all the beauty these two posess, so I took more than the normal amount of photos of each one.

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"Inner Goddess" is another polish inspired by the popular series "50 Shades of Gray."  

It is absolutely packed with iridescent color shifting glitters! 

I did a "skittles" mani, layering it by itself and over 4 different colors so you can see how versatile it is!

Below is one coat over each color.

Below, two coats alone on my thumb.

 

 Above, slightly blurred to show off the color shift!

Below, under a yellow lamp light. Surprisingly quite accurate coloring, for layering it over black (Index finger)

Of all the polishes, this was the trickiest to work with, but it was not difficult by any means. It was a bit thicker than the others is all. 

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Finally, the last one.

"On Wednesday's We Wear Pink", another polish inspired by the movie "Mean Girls."

This has pink holo glitters, different shades of pink hexes, and iridescent/color shifting glitter in a pink jelly base!

For the photos below, two coats were used. You can also layer this over a pink base if you prefer!

Under bright lamp light:

 

 Indirect daylight/office lights:

  

Here you can really see some of the color shifting glitters!

 And another indirect light shot :)

This was another one that was slightly on the thicker side, I wonder if it is the color shifting glitters in these two that help make it that way? Either way, I am pleased as punch! This is another one I would like to own a big size of :)

Happy Painting, Happy Holidays, and thanks for reading!

xo,

Sara//Tomboy Nails

Different Dimension (Part Two)

After moving, broken nails, a massive photo loss, and holiday shopping.... I have finally been able to bring to you the remaining Different Dimension polishes I was sent to review! I have broken it up into two remaining posts, one coming before lunch and the other after lunch! I will let these beauties talk for themselves... because like always, Missi Barry, mastermind of these polishes, does not disappoint with her beautiful creations.

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The first one today is "That's So Fetch", which was inspired by the movie "Mean Girls"

This was the only one of all she sent me that did not have a label on it, but Missi did confirm that it is That's So Fetch :)

 

As you can see, lovely shades of purple, blue, and iridescent glitters that change colors as the light hits! I layered two light coats over Essie's "Lilacism" and L'Oreal's "Butterfly Kisses" for the above photos.

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Next, inspired by the popular book, Missi brings us "50 Shades"

I was pleased that it was darker shades of gray instead of silvers. I think this is a great glitter to go over almost any base color!

 

 I layered two light coats over China Glaze "Elephant Walk" and Sinful Colors "Mint Apple" for the above photos.

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Then, comes a favorite of mine. "Space Camp" - packed full of silver holo glitter in all sizes. This is quite an eye-catcher!

Just look at how it sparkles! I layered two coats over L'Oreal's "The Muse's Attitude." I wanted a dark base so you could really see every little silver holo glitter POP! :)

To find these, and many more of her beautiful polishes, check out her Etsy shop!
Different Dimension Etsy

Until lunch!
xo,
Tomboy Nails//Sara

Dollish Polish: Legend of Zelda Duo!

OH. EM. GEE!

It's been too long since my last post. I sincerely apologize for such a lapse! This morning instead of bringing you the rest of my Different Dimensions swatches, I am sharing with you the Legend of Zelda duo made by Dollish Polish. Originally this WAS going to be the other DD post, until I got to work, ready to knock it out, and realized.... those photos are saved on my home computer! I never dropboxed them to my work computer! EGAD! I will have that up for you tonight, or tomorrow. PINKY PROMISE!

So, if any of you know me, you understand my love and devotion to all things Nintendo. Specifically, Mario and Zelda. I had longed for this duo for many months.. always missing the restocks, and never finding it available for swap as a duo! One day, OverallBeauty   announced them in stock, just as I was leaving work for the day. I stayed 5 minutes late and mission accomplished! They were finally mine :)

Without further ado, I bring to you the Zelda duo layered over Zoya's Tracie.

First Photo: Hero of Time over Zoya's Tracie, in afternoon sunlight.

I did different layers of Hero of Time, to show how buildable it is. Index and Pinky are One Coat, Middle finger is Two Coats, and Ring finger is Three Coats.

Second Photo: Direct Sunlight, slightly over exposed, slightly blurred to show off the sparkle!

Another shot in afternoon sunlight.

 Better exposed, more true to color without the golden glow of afternoon sun.

I just love how pretty it looks over the light springy green! This is a beautiful green, brown, and gold polish. It was super easy to apply. In fact, my only problem was on the ring finger, I did not quite wait long enough before applying Seche Vite, the quick dry top coat, so I had *slight* shrinkage by the tip of my nail. Lesson learned! 

Next, Hylian Princess over Zoya's Tracie!

This is a beautiful glitter polish as well. Different sizes of white, purple, and gold glitters. I followed the same application as Hero of Time: Index and Pinky are One Coat, Middle is Two Coats, and Ring is Three Coats.

Photo taken in indirect sunlight.

A slightly blurred shot to show off some sparkle in the bottle.

This was another super easy polish to apply. There's no fishing for any bigger glitters, and removal of each was no more difficult than the average glitter!

With each of these polishes, I prefer the one coat or two coat look versus the almost full coverage of 3 coats. To each their own though! You can still find these polishes available from Overall Beauty at times, as well as Llarowe or even try Dollish Polish directly! You never know!

As always, thanks for reading xo

Tomboy Nails//Sara

Different Dimensions (Part One)

Good Morning all, and Happy Thanksgiving to those of you celebrating today! I will be visiting close friends of family for dinner today. I am thankful for many things always, but reminded especially around the holidays... For all of my family, my boyfriend, my friends both near and far, my new home and my job, and absolutely- you. My fans, my readers. I have a lot of fun doing this, and while I am still learning so many things, I am grateful to have you alongside me for this journey.

Before I go off to fill myself with so many delicious things, I would like to share with you a post that is a wee bit overdue.  Missi Barry, the creator of Different Dimensions, was kind enough to send me a total of 9 mini polishes and 2 cuticle balms for me to review. I was thrilled to be given the okay to review, and was even more surprised when I saw what she sent me. It unfortunately came just as I was beginning to pack up my things in one home, and finalize closing and moving into my new house. In that process, I had to shorten all of my nails again to short nubs as we've seen the past few posts, so while I will be offering reviews over the next few days of these polishes, I have promised myself, and my love for Missi's creations, a better review when my nails have grown back. I hope you can still see the beauty I see though, even if it's on short Tomboy nails ;)

"Work Hard, Play Harder"

 Work Hard, Play Harder- This is a beautiful green polish with flecks of gold and blue throughout. Depending on how the light hits it, you see more of a golden shimmer or more of a flash of blue flecks! I fell in love with this instantly!

 Here you can see more of the mix of gold and blue at the same time-- truly beautiful, and somewhat difficult to capture on camera! It's simple, yet enough to catch the eye.

I used two coats of Work Hard, Play Harder and had full coverage. It honestly applied very easily and was super easy to work with. I added as an accent another of her mini's- Fall Me Maybe. My boyfriend was the one to pick these two together, and sure enough, a fun fall mani! I used one coat for accent nails.

Unfortunately I could only seem to capture semi-blurred photos when I was trying to get Fall Me Maybe on camera. Once my replacement lenses finally arrive I cannot wait to see the difference it makes! 

   

A Beautiful glitter polish packed with brown, copper, and red.

Next, Warm Fuzzies. The very first brown polish I have fallen in love with. And.... it's HOLO! I also put accents of Fall Me Maybe on this, and what a beautiful combination! The best fall combo yet, and also how pretty for today's festivities!

 

 

The above photos are indirect sunlight. A soft chocolately brown almost!

The photos below are in direct sunlight where the golden chocolate shows off all of its sparkly holographic splendor! The second is blurred deliberately to show the rainbow ;)

Like I said before, the first brown polish I am in love with. I have asked for a full size of this for Christmas, because I know I will quickly go through the mini I was sent ;) This was almost a one coat coverage for me, which is impressive! I did two to be safe, and then one coat of Fall Me Maybe as accents in the middle nails.

I give Different Dimensions polishes a 10 out of 10 in my book. They apply easily, you don't have to wait *forever* for coats to dry, you don't have to fish for glitters! She is always coming out with new creations, and she is available to make you a custom polish of your choice as well!

Stay tuned for the next set of polishes! Until then, check out her shop,and get ready for some AWESOME holiday sales over the next few days! 

Different Dimensions Etsy

xo,

Sara//Tomboy Nails

Lynnderella's "The Stars In Her Eyes".... ON THE FLY!!

Good Morning! 

Today's quick "Mani on the Fly" is featuring one of my first Lynnderella polishes!

 "The Stars In Her Eyes..." is from the Early Halloween Resurrected collection released in Sept/Oct 2012.

I was lucky enough to receive this polish, and another Lynn, as a Random Act Of Kindness from a woman I can't say enough nice things about! I had been struggling with the decision of which Lynnderella polish I should buy for myself as I have only had one, did not like it at the time, and promptly swapped it for something else. This woman contacted me, expressing the desire to send me a *single* polish. I cried I was so excited! (I know, it almost sounds silly, but it's the little things in life... isn't that true?) When the package arrived a few days later, needless to say I was knocked speechless when not one, but TWO gorgeous glittery polishes fell onto my lap!

Lynnderella herself describes TSIHE as, 

"Large and very tiny (and oh so adorable) holographic stars with intense gray and black holographic hexagons in a clear base. Application may require patience and skill due to the tiny stars being slightly thicker than other glitter with a slight tendency toward temperamental behavior."

 To test it out, I put on a single coat of China Glaze "DV8" from the OMG Holographic collection. Once dried, I topped my middle two fingers with two light coats of "The Stars In Her Eyes..." and topped with a coat of Seche Vite quick dry top coat.

LOOK HOW SPARKLY IT IS!!!! There's so many little stars in it, I honestly at times had to swipe a few back onto the bottle neck because I didn't want a messy pile everywhere! It's simple enough that you can pair it with honestly any color in the rainbow, but still sparkly enough to catch your eye all day long!

Like most Lynnderella's I've heard about, application was a little tricky because of how much glitter is packed in each bottle. The dab method worked best to put the little stars exactly where I wanted, but I was still able to swipe the polish first before going back and dabbing any strays into place.

I hope you've enjoyed this quick Mani On the Fly!

xo,
Sara//Tomboy Nails   

Three Mani's....ON THE FLY!!

Sometimes I have this grand intention of having the time, and remembering, to photograph each mani that I have, so that I can share it with you- my readers! Unfortunately, I often won't have time, or will forget, or will remember only *after* it's begun to chip away from my nails. Or, simply, it's a mani that I did not like, or did not last long enough except to get a quick photo in passing.

That is where these "Mani's on the Fly!" features have been coming from. I snap a quick photo at work, or while playing passenger in the car, or at night before bed when I am analyzing cuticles and putting on some balm! ;)

Today's post features three mani's on the fly... One being my very first A-England polish, one featuring Hare polish, and the other is a combination effort of two Butter London polishes!

Butter London's "All Hail the Queen" meets BL "Disco Biscuit" !

I was playing around with some nail sticks and trying a few layered combinations of polishes to find a pretty berry color to match closely with a new shirt for work, when I discovered this combination. Before this combination, I was certain AHtQ was going to be heading towards my swap pile, as I wasn't loving it by itself on my own nails. Now, I want to keep it simply to make this combination and play with others!

All Hail the Queen is a pretty, sparkly tan/nude color. I was able to get full coverage in just one coat too, which is impressive!

(Excuse my bandaged finger- I had a nasty wound from trying to get into some hard plastic packaging!)

Disco Biscuit is a beautiful hot pink jelly polish with blue/purple/iridescent fine glitters. I applied two coats over AHtQ to get full coverage and no bald spots, then topped with a single coat of Seche Vite quick dry top coat.

What do you think? Pretty good match, right? ;)

 Next, my very first A-England Polish.. meet Tristam!

 Tristam is described as "night blue sky with starlight glimmer and glow." I must say, I am inclined to agree! 

With just two coats, I had full coverage, and topped it with one coat of Seche Vite. I could not believe how beautiful it was! Before I got it, I was worried it would appear too dark, like a denim blue. That was not the case, despite how it looks in the bottle even in person!

 

 Depending on how the light hit, (see this washed out photo above!) you could almost call it a lovely "blurple" color! (Blue meets Purple, haha!)

As you can see, I had picked at my thumb a tad at this point. Had I not started picking at it a bit, I am confident this would have lasted days!

I am so impressed by the quality of A-England polishes... I greatly look forward to the day where I have a few more in my collection to admire!


Hare's "Rad Cloud" !

I bought this polish months ago from Copious when I had some credits that were about to expire. It was my first Hare polish, and for some reason I did not like it enough upon receiving it... so it sat! And sat some more. Until one day, all of a sudden, I loved it!
I had naked nails one night, and I hate going to work without them painted as I fear I will get bored and nibble on them! So, I slapped on a quick one coat, topped with Seche Vite, and headed into work the next morning!

Needless to say, for one coat, I was pretty impressed! Almost full coverage! This is a polish that looks like you can wear it with a color underneath, or build it up by itself with 2+ coats.
This is a unique blend of colors, the green and orange really stood out to me and made it fun..and this was also the first time I found myself enjoying square shaped glitters!

I can't wait to try this one again as well :)

What do you all think of these "Mani's on the Fly?" Is this something you like, or dislike?

xo, 

Sara//Tomboy Nails