DS extravagance in sunlight and my lightbox

Hei everyone! How are you? We had a sunny day today, yaaay! Right now I'm freezing my toes off, waiting for polish on them to dry as I'm hurrying to my dancing classes and at least I  can type away this entry. I quickly took a few shots on DS extravagance on direct sunlight, because I wanted to see the direct difference between sunlight and lightbox shot. Now, I was a bit sceptical at first about lightbox, call me naive (and photo-unedicated, since that I really am), but I thought the best way to show the actual colour and details of the polish is "IRL" lighting, sunlight. Guess I was wrong. Although I still think my sunlight swatches are accurate, otherwise I wouldn't post them - and the proof of that are many bloggers, taking pictures on daylight, but it did surprise me, that lighbox nails it 100%, stupid of me to write it like that - camera nails it 100% in lightbox, while on the sun it tends to give a bit more red into the purple. I'm talking about extravagance, since that's the polish I compared the shots with. So I'm glad I have the box now. :) 

Quick comparison:

 The left one is by far more accurate. It really surprised me, I must emphasize that most of the time, looking at my nails and daylight pictures of them, the difference was not noticable or at least minor. But I think that those that have DS extravagance can confirm my statement, that the left one is more accurate. But you can really see the sparkles on the right one. :) 

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As you can see, I ran out of time and I'm finishing the entry after my dancing classes, because  I wanted to tell a bit about the lightbox, since Ivana asked me in my previous entry about it. :) When you start searching for instructions you can see that here are *tons* of way to do a lightbox, it can be made of simple cardboard box or more "hardcore" with iron sides or of wood and I don't know what else. I picked these instructions, because they looked simple enough and the instructor used cheap materials, that still looked solid enough. Basically I followed the instructions completely. I bought foam board at Prometej in Ljubljana (around 3,50€ per peace, I have those in size of - forgive me, non slovene speaking readers, I have no idea what's the english expression - šeleshamer), lamps in OBI (9,90€ per piece, there are many types, you can choose by your liking - for your nerves sake, DON'T buy them in Leclerc, if you shop there, they are expensiver and DO NOT work on daylight e.bulbs, I can confirm that -.-) and "daylight" electric bulbs in Leclerc (6,40€ per piece, my advice is not to buy any kind of bulbs in OBI because they are SO expensive, but especially not daylight bulbs that cost around 15€, i was like: o.O). And that's it. 

My observations, if you're gonna do it by these instructions: 

- Don't cut the left and right side after you put the box together, it's so much easier to do it before you start taping it, I have no idea why this unnecessary complication in the instructions.

- The adhesive tape complication is in my opinion unneccesary. I searched for this tape that the instructior is advising, and I got weird looks by everyone. Standard duct tape will do, it's not like you have lights on for days in the lightbox.

- I haven't cut the notches yet, but I'm keeping that option opened, maybe I'll change my mind. Right now I'm swatching without them. 

- If you can, find another pair of hands to help you bulid the box. It so much easier, when someone is holding the sides together! 

-I find the bottom a bit unnecessary, I think white paper does just fine and the box is stable enough without it. 

I hope this helped, Ivana! :) And Taya, you mention it on your blog, so I remembered you when I started writing this entry. This one is the one I chose. :)  

I didn't make any pictures while making the box, nor now, because I think the instructions are very good but if someone would find it helpful, I can take a shot or two. 

Thanks for reading!