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A Spring collection in June?! I know 😛 I told you I was behind!

Without much ado, here is the collection! All of them, except Honeysuckle have a hidden silvery shimmer that’s lovely. It has your usual pinks, whites, greens, purples but with a much more murkier depth. I do like this collection 🙂 It’s an 8 piece collection accompanied with a glitter topcoat called Dewdrop.
I love Nubar’s formula even though I don’t use their polishes enough. I like the brush handle, the brush itself, and their formula 🙂 All were opaque by two coats, and Dewdrop was applied with one coat to all.

Dewdrop is a sheer polish, and impossible to become opaque because of its glittery nature. It’s packed full of gritty pastel colored round glitter and would need a topcoat to smooth things out. I did not apply a topcoat in this collection because 1) I don’t when I’m doing swatches and 2) I was on a swatching roll.
I found that Dewdrop looked best with more bolder colored polishes. With the dusty colors in this collection, a bit of them just looked gritty and dirty– not in a good way.

I will begin with the creme by itself, and then a picture of it with Dewdrop. I have all of them except for some reason, this one:
BabySprout
Baby Sprout
It’s not your usual mint green that you see in Spring collections. This is a murky, light pea color.
I forgot to take a picture/apply Dewdrop so no Dewdrop picture for this one. Use your imagination 🙂

PurpleAster
Purple Aster
It’s a dusty mauve lavender, and you can see its shimmer here. This one was okay, I usually love purples and everything else in its spectrum but I didn’t go nuts over this.
DewdropOverPurpleAster

Earthen
Earthen is a murky pale grey. To think of it, I wonder how this compares to Skulls and Glossbones by OPI. Hah! I like this one more, I think, it’s an interesting neutral.
DewdropOverEarthen
Not a fan of Dewdrop over Earthen.

PinkLily
Pink Lily
I brought this one home with me. I love it, it’s a perfect pastel pink with a shimmer.
DewdropOverPinkLily
I’m sorry about the lighting change, lol. This is more accurate to the bottle color, however. And now you see how flattering Dewdrop can be.

YellowPrimrose
Yellow Primrose
A pale pastel yellow, could be mistaken for white.
DewdropOverYellowPrimrose
Reminds me of Easter. I also like this combination a lot. =)

BlueHydrangea
Blue Hydrangea
Baby blue pastel. Reminds me a bit of Essie’s Borrowed & Blue– in fact, I wonder if anyone could do a comparison? I don’t have this one home with me. 😦
DewdropOverBlueHydrangea
You see a lot of the yellow glitter here.

WhitePeony
This is a perfect white! It’s off-white, but not yellow to the point where it’s ivory. A lot of white polish tends to be streaky or runny but not this one. It makes my eyes hurt looking at it and trying to figure out what makes it “not white”. Haha =P
DewdropOverWhitePeony
White Peony also is a good base to show all the colors of the glitter in Dewdrop =)

Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle
MY FAVORITE! I don’t like a lot of pinks, but this is a GREAT color. It’s so beautiful! It’s also a true creme, unlike the other 7 polishes. I have worn this twice, and that is unusual for me. 🙂
DewdropOverHoneysuckle
with Dewdrop. I have to say I like this by itself, but it also looks good with this topcoat.

A Spring collection in June?! I know 😛 I told you I was behind!

Without much ado, here is the collection! All of them, except Honeysuckle have a hidden silvery shimmer that’s lovely. It has your usual pinks, whites, greens, purples but with a much more murkier depth. I do like this collection 🙂 It’s an 8 piece collection accompanied with a glitter topcoat called Dewdrop.
I love Nubar’s formula even though I don’t use their polishes enough. I like the brush handle, the brush itself, and their formula 🙂 All were opaque by two coats, and Dewdrop was applied with one coat to all.

Dewdrop is a sheer polish, and impossible to become opaque because of its glittery nature. It’s packed full of gritty pastel colored round glitter and would need a topcoat to smooth things out. I did not apply a topcoat in this collection because 1) I don’t when I’m doing swatches and 2) I was on a swatching roll.
I found that Dewdrop looked best with more bolder colored polishes. With the dusty colors in this collection, a bit of them just looked gritty and dirty– not in a good way.

I will begin with the creme by itself, and then a picture of it with Dewdrop. I have all of them except for some reason, this one:
BabySprout
Baby Sprout
It’s not your usual mint green that you see in Spring collections. This is a murky, light pea color.
I forgot to take a picture/apply Dewdrop so no Dewdrop picture for this one. Use your imagination 🙂

PurpleAster
Purple Aster
It’s a dusty mauve lavender, and you can see its shimmer here. This one was okay, I usually love purples and everything else in its spectrum but I didn’t go nuts over this.
DewdropOverPurpleAster

Earthen
Earthen is a murky pale grey. To think of it, I wonder how this compares to Skulls and Glossbones by OPI. Hah! I like this one more, I think, it’s an interesting neutral.
DewdropOverEarthen
Not a fan of Dewdrop over Earthen.

PinkLily
Pink Lily
I brought this one home with me. I love it, it’s a perfect pastel pink with a shimmer.
DewdropOverPinkLily
I’m sorry about the lighting change, lol. This is more accurate to the bottle color, however. And now you see how flattering Dewdrop can be.

YellowPrimrose
Yellow Primrose
A pale pastel yellow, could be mistaken for white.
DewdropOverYellowPrimrose
Reminds me of Easter. I also like this combination a lot. =)

BlueHydrangea
Blue Hydrangea
Baby blue pastel. Reminds me a bit of Essie’s Borrowed & Blue– in fact, I wonder if anyone could do a comparison? I don’t have this one home with me. 😦
DewdropOverBlueHydrangea
You see a lot of the yellow glitter here.

WhitePeony
This is a perfect white! It’s off-white, but not yellow to the point where it’s ivory. A lot of white polish tends to be streaky or runny but not this one. It makes my eyes hurt looking at it and trying to figure out what makes it “not white”. Haha =P
DewdropOverWhitePeony
White Peony also is a good base to show all the colors of the glitter in Dewdrop =)

Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle
MY FAVORITE! I don’t like a lot of pinks, but this is a GREAT color. It’s so beautiful! It’s also a true creme, unlike the other 7 polishes. I have worn this twice, and that is unusual for me. 🙂
DewdropOverHoneysuckle
with Dewdrop. I have to say I like this by itself, but it also looks good with this topcoat.

So, I got the new Bundle Monster set in mail yesterday and of course had to try it out IMMEDIATELY. I love this set! I also decided to try out an American Apparel polish for stamping, and I have to say it looks promising. I may have to go back and update my stamping list to add the AA colors to it!

I also am applying this towards the theme 🙂

PinkFeathers
Base: Nubar Pink Lily (From their Spring Petals Spring 2011 collection), a lovely light pastel pink creme
Stamp: BM217
Stamping Color: American Apparel Rouge

So, I got the new Bundle Monster set in mail yesterday and of course had to try it out IMMEDIATELY. I love this set! I also decided to try out an American Apparel polish for stamping, and I have to say it looks promising. I may have to go back and update my stamping list to add the AA colors to it!

I also am applying this towards the theme 🙂

PinkFeathers
Base: Nubar Pink Lily (From their Spring Petals Spring 2011 collection), a lovely light pastel pink creme
Stamp: BM217
Stamping Color: American Apparel Rouge

 Blurry, but this is an extremely good representative of the color in person.

Nubar Petunia Sparkle over Color Club Where’s the Soiree? with scotch tape 😉 So easy Shauna could do it!!

I used this manicure as a reward system for me while cramming over Paradise Lost last night– when I finished 200 lines, I would get to paint on a section and when I finished a book I could do the whole hand. It did take me the whole three books of Paradise Lost that I had to finish by then, to complete the mani. 🙂 Slower yes, but rewarding.

 Blurry, but this is an extremely good representative of the color in person.

Nubar Petunia Sparkle over Color Club Where’s the Soiree? with scotch tape 😉 So easy Shauna could do it!!

I used this manicure as a reward system for me while cramming over Paradise Lost last night– when I finished 200 lines, I would get to paint on a section and when I finished a book I could do the whole hand. It did take me the whole three books of Paradise Lost that I had to finish by then, to complete the mani. 🙂 Slower yes, but rewarding.

 So I replaced it with Color Club Where’s the Soiree for the base, and Nubar Knight’s Armor for the top. I usually reach for my Wet n Wild Black Creme, but the CC one was within reach so I went for that instead.

Stamped over it with Sally Hansen’s Silver Sweep, off a BM plate. I like it a lot, especially how if I straighten my fingers out so that all the fingertips line, the stamp goes across in a straight line.. 🙂

 So I replaced it with Color Club Where’s the Soiree for the base, and Nubar Knight’s Armor for the top. I usually reach for my Wet n Wild Black Creme, but the CC one was within reach so I went for that instead.

Stamped over it with Sally Hansen’s Silver Sweep, off a BM plate. I like it a lot, especially how if I straighten my fingers out so that all the fingertips line, the stamp goes across in a straight line.. 🙂

Didn’t start off the day too good– insomnia then woke up with like the worst back pain ever D: But I had pretty nails.

 Kisses! I’ve had this idea for Valentine’s day for ever, and it took a lot of restraint to wait until today to be able to slap it on.

Base color is Zoya Jolene, layered with Nubar Sugar. Stamped on is China Glaze Snow for the white lips, and Zoya Sarah for the red lips 🙂

smooches to all of you 🙂

Didn’t start off the day too good– insomnia then woke up with like the worst back pain ever D: But I had pretty nails.

 Kisses! I’ve had this idea for Valentine’s day for ever, and it took a lot of restraint to wait until today to be able to slap it on.

Base color is Zoya Jolene, layered with Nubar Sugar. Stamped on is China Glaze Snow for the white lips, and Zoya Sarah for the red lips 🙂

smooches to all of you 🙂

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