Comparison: Nubar Greener vs. H&M Envy me

Hey everybody! It has been a while, I know. About a week ago I got a lovely surprise in my mailbox - a request from one of my readers for a comparison. Which is exactly the nudge i need to get myself to pick up the camera and work with it, as lately I did not have time for that. And I really am a fan of requests like these, they give me an idea for posts and additional motivation to actually post them.

To get to the comparison. As it happens, these two are amongst my favourite nail polishes in my stash. Absolutely adore the rich green shimmer. And yes, they are quite close, but are they dupes? Let's find out. 

Index finger: HM Envy me,

Middle finger: Nubar Greener

Ring finger: HM Envy me

Little finger: Nubar Greener

No topcoat on the photos. 

The bottles emphasise the fact that Envy me is in fact bluer than Greener. But on the nail that difference is not as obvious. After wearing them both at the same time for 5 days now, here are my observations:

- H&M Envy me has a bluer, hence colder undertone, while Greener is a slightly warmer green, even though they are both definitively on a colder side of green shimmers.

- Nubar Greener is a richer shimmer, which creates more depth in the colour.

- In most of the lights they look almost the same, but if you look at the nails up close you notice the difference between the undertones.

- After five days Envy me is chipped on half of the nails, Nubar remains only with a slight tipwear (I put topcoat on after I took photos).

Both brushes are excellent, although I am a firm fan of Nubar brush, it is my winner. Although H&M Envy me has more coverage with just one stroke, both can be two-coaters (and both get more depth with a third one). 

There you have it. I cannot pick a winner, I love them both, both are nail polish of excellent quality and I wouldn't switch one for the other, as I do find them different enough to own both. However, if you are not too picky about your undertone and all you need is a very rich dark green shimmer, you can easily pick either of them.

If you have any other comparison questions, let me know via email or comments. I hope this was helpful!

Have a lovely weekend!

~ Ulmiel

Freeeeeedom!

Don't you always feel a bit Braveheart-ish after the exam period? I sure do! I had my last exam before Fall yesterday and it was an awesome feeling, to breathe easily and without the constant nagging in your head 'you have to study, you have to study, stop scrolling and typing, go study!'. Yesterday I was really tired due to my 3-hours-only bad sleep so all I did after i came home was read and drink tea. I've finally started with the last GRRM book and I'm already hooked. It's very good feeling, since A Feast for Crows was quite boring to me. 

But what's even better is that in just a few hours I'm leaving home for Madrid and Granada. My dear Spain. My dear friends in Spain! Ah, I can hardly wait. Truth be told, I'm anxious about flying alone for the first time, but one has to do what one has to do to get to Spain! I hope all will be good. I have my music and I have my book (not Martin, sadly, since it probably weights more than the cabin luggage limit allows anyway ;)) to keep me calm and patient. :) 

As for nails, I decided I want to wear something gorgeous and not too busy and Nubar Forest seemed awesome enough to escort me to this trip.

You've seen it before on this blog. It's interesting, how I always pick green if something important or/and really exciting is about to happen.

So enjoy the study break (if you're a student and just finished the exam period too), enjoy the holidays and blogging and the summer days! Winter is not yet coming! ;)

Nubar - Earth and complete Going Green collection

Heya people! Late hour again. My biorhythm has changed again with all the studying, I see. I get up after noon, and am wide awake after two a.m. Well, I've always been more of a night bird anyway. Tonight I want to show you the very last beauty from Going Green collection, Earth. I could have been cool and post it on Earth day but decided I'm going to miss that opportunity.

Going Green as a whole is a big big lemming killed. And I'm wondering. Do you have collection lemmings too? When entire collection is so perfect, you really want them all? When I got the Going Green collection with major help of my amazing swap buddy (thanks again for that!!), I started to think what makes the collection perfect for me. And I realised it's about my favourite things in nail polish world. Nubar Going Green is obviously singing to my huge green obsession. It also has a duo/multichrome, a holo, a rich creme, an insanely rich green shimmer and insanely rich teal shimmer. You basically cover everything, Nubar.

The two collections I want as a whole (although they're not that big lemmings as GG was) cover my love for glass flecked finish and sexy rich dark shimmers. I'm talking about China Glaze Summer Days (noone does glass fleck like China Glaze!) and Misa Poisoned Passion. So basically, a collection covers one of my loves in polish world so well, I can't say no to a colour. Do you get like that too? :)

But to the pictures! Earth is gorgeous! No matter how you take that sentence, it's true to the core. :) And although it looks quite close to Conserve in the bottle, you'll see they're really different.

Two easiest coats, this formula was pure perfection. No clean up, no nothing, one of those polishes you grab if you're in an insane hurry because they'll work fast for you. Just beauty on the nail, and I simply adore how rich and heavy the shimmer is on this polish (heavy in a good way, naturally!)

And just for fun, let's have Earth's brothers here in this post too. Since seeing them all together makes me happy and all. :)

 Nubar Conserve

 Nubar Forest

 Nubar Greener

 Nubar Reclaim

Nubar Wildlife

And just because it's 1:30 a.m. here and I can't stop listening to this gorgeous song:

Fates Warning - The Roads Goes On Forever

Thank you for reading! Have a good night (or a lovely day, if you're reading this with Sun already up :))!

The many faces of Nubar Wildlife

Heya people! How about I show you today one of the Going Green Nubars? I've worn them all now and all I can say is, they are exactly what I expected or even more. Today I'll show you Wildlife with some Depend stickers I've bought a while ago. If you thought layering is the lazy way to do nail art, I discovered nail art stickers bring that laziness to a new level. :) But they are fun and I think they make a good accent nail mani.

Anyway. A few pictures, i wanted to capture as many colours this baby has as I could. 

 The stickers. I wanted to bring some wild life to the Wildlife polish, haha.

 The usual look of the colour.

 But wait! There's more!

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And the stickers, if you're curious about them. I find them cute, because they're not overdone (like most nail stickers are). Just silver, simple things. Plus I like flowers.

Nubar Wildlife took three coats to be fully opaque. Mind you, for most two would be enough, it's just me being picky. The application was superb, as always with Nubar. I must admit something. Wildlife was a complete surprise for me. I didn't love it much on the photos. I liked it, but I prefered the rest of them over Wildlife. On the nails it took my breath away. I couldn't stop staring at my nails, especially outside. It's incredible. Trully incredible, you need this, if you like duochromes and/or green. I really recommend it. :) 

Do you have Wildlife? Do you like nail stickers or do you think they're a waste of time and money? 

Thank you for reading!

Nubar - Conserve // one big fat lemming dead

Whoa, i'm back to my one post per week deal?! I hate that. As i hate that i start my every post like this lately. The reasons still remain the same, but now i actually have some more time for family and friends and i wanna savour it before the big exam period that starts ... yesterday, i'd say.

Today I have one of the Nubars I craved for so long for you. Kris was so awesome she sent me the rest of Going Green collection some time ago and I already wore them all, but they are so awesome, they need to be posted separately. This is a giant lemming killed. Today is all about Conserve. 

Boy oh boy, how i didn't do this polish any justice on the pictures! Then again, I can't find a picture to do it justice online. It's ... amazing tealish green that sparkles with a rich shimmer it contains. There are no words for how rich this polish is. It feels 'heavy', in a good way. Like you applied some sort of liquefied gems on your nails. So beautiful.

The formula of Conserve is flawless. I sometimes think I have a flawless formula on the brush, but then a varnish like this comes along and I realise that all that before was just a very good formula. No clean up, two coats for full opacity, extremely easy to work with. Perfection. 

As you can see, I have only love for this polish. How about you? :)

Thank you for reading and commenting and sticking with me while I'm MIA!

Paket Petek

Heya people! Another Friday, another package! Ah, but this one is even more special than usual. I'm always extremely happy to receive any kind of packages, you know, in general, they're just super fun, and with having an awesome swap buddy every package is a total win. That is why I started with this particular label. To praise the packages! :)

Today's particular little gem of a package came yesterday. And it was completely unexpected and I can't get over the awesomeness of it. Remember when I was utterly surprised by dear Stefanie with a bottle of BB Couture Clyde? I keep it in my display picture too. Well, guess what. A couple of days ago I received another email from her. I don't think I could be more surprised about it. It was also a surprise package, so I could hardly wait to get it and when it arrived in a cute box, I could not open it fast enough. What was inside left me speechless. The totally great Rembrandt card with the cutest message that made me smile and ... these:

I couldn't believe it. Honestly. I mean, look at them. Before I forget, L to R: Kiko Frozen LE 06, BB Couture Horned Devil and Widow Maker, A England Order of the Garter, Cult Nails Power Thief and Nubar Gem. And now I'll go faint. 

I could go on and on about this. Two of my great lemmings, my first A England (and what a pick, this blue and the teal and the green holo are the ones I want the most from the new collection, the blue is SO electric and bright!), my first Cult (that looks like a darker Orly Nite Owl with not only silver but green and pink shimmer, FTW!!) ... Kiko looks like it's going to kill my Zoya Raven lemming and Widow maker makes me stare at the bottle for a few moments with its black glitter.
No words for how awesome this package is. Nor for how touched and honoured I am that Stefanie remembered me once more with this wonderful gift. Thank you so much, darling. It was the nicest surprise, I just can't get over it. I'll stop typing right here, because I can't think of words cool enough to express my gratitude or happiness. In short, Stefanie, you rock!

And now to pick the first one to wear! I'm thinking bright orange or bright blue. They are BRIGHT! 

What was in your latest package? :)

Thank you for reading!

Comparison: Nubar Vino vs. Jumpy 140

Heya people! How are you on this cold day? We have a little bit of snow in Ljubljana. Nothing major, but it stuck to the ground for a day. Souther Balkan has some serious snow troubles though, as much as I saw, I'm worried that it will get to us too, brrr. 

So, when I wore Jumpy 140, it looked a bit familiar. I knew I didn't have anything like it for sure, but still, it bugged me. Then I remembered why. I think I wore Nubar Vino just days before and the base colour looked very close. So I compared them. 

 Aren't they cute? ^.^

 On these upper pictures, made outside, you can see the base colour is quite close. They're not the same, Jumpy is brighter, but close enough that when you're not wearing them at the same time, they remind you of each other. But here's the thing that Vino doesn't have and that makes Jumpy own his ass:

The mighty DUOCHROME!! Yes!! Jumpy is a duochrome, Vino is not. Here's a seriously bad blurry picture with a bad position of nails, just to show you the difference better:

See it see it see it?

Although I think both colours are fantastic, Jumpy 140 is cleary the winner for me. It's also enough for me to remove Nubar Vino off my WL. The base colours get close enough for my taste, and well, could you say no to the duochrome on top of everything? :) My thanks go to Tevta for letting me play with her Nubars.:)

Thank you for reading!

Nubar Forest

I still haven't shown you Nubar Forest? Seriously? There must be some kind of penalty for keeping these pictures hidden for a long period of time ... oh well, better late than never. Believe it or not ... I actually enjoyed wearing Forest more than I did Greener. Don't believe me? I can imagine. But I did. It's such an amazing, rich and smooth and GREEN green creme. Don't you think? It screams green, and that's such an awesome feeling when you look at your nails. Well, it is for me. :) 

Love it, seriously. Forest is, as you may know, a part of Nubar Going Green  for 2009. I won't even go on about this collection, you probably grew tired of me going on about it like last month. Two coats, application is so easy, it applies itself and sings you your song of the day while doing so.

If you like green and like to wear cremes, this is the polish for you. Eh, you probably have it already. It's just me, I'm always late to the party. 

It's a short one today, I know. I'm a bit sleepy AND I'm in the mood for Dylan Moran and his What It Is show. I love that man.

Your feelings about greens and cremes and the combination of the two? Any Dylan Moran fans out there?

Thank you for reading!

Nubar - Greener and my deep green shimmers

Heya darlings! How are you doing? I have to show you Greener ASAP. It's ... it's ... perfect. It's a perfect green shimmer polish. I remember writing something like that for RGB Sea. Nubar is his brighter brother, but they both come from the "Perfection" family. 

Greener was such a lemming of mine. I told you before, Nubar Going Green collection for 2009 is one of the rare collections I want as a whole. And as it happens, I have half of it already. Whoa! I feel so good when I look at my polish table, seeing Reclaim, Greener and Forest hanging out together in a tiny group. :) 

Having a lemming so strong, there is always a danger of being disappointed when you finally get the polish you wanted so badly. Not Greener though. Greener surpassed all my expectations, and they were hiiigh. 

Pictures. Then you'll understand what I'm talking about.

And for all of you who don't change polish that often. I couldn't remove Greener until I thought nail growth showed already. This is how this beauty looks like after four days. And no, I didn't just sit for four days, staring at my nails. :P No chipping, just a tiny tiny bit of tip wear. Frankly, with some polish I have bigger tip wear on the second day or after I hit the shower on the same day even. 

Application is a bliss. Nubar, in short. Utter perfection, no faults. I did three coats, wanting to see if anything changes, two coats are needed for full opacity. 

Nubar, seriously: 

followed up with: 

nicked from brilliant Baucek, she rocks with gifs like that

Oh, yes. If you're wondering, i have a few of deep green shimmers. I have also other green shimmers, but here i stuck with the deep/emerald shimmer. It's my weakness. Kinda like a good green creme is. Can't resist, nope. So I put them in line, to show them to ya.

 Not helping much, eh? Closer looks:

If you want to see any of them compared, let me know in the comments! Any thoughts on Nubar Greener? 

Thank you for reading!