Nubar Pink Flame - And the love story continues...

Oh my goodness.  So if Sun Gold started the love affair, Pink Flame made it real.  This polish is just... So gorgeous.  And, maybe just maybe, a little more flattering on different skin tones, so you cooler toned girls, this might be one you can try!  I say this because the pink leans a little blue in certain lights, which may make it a little more versatile than its decidedly warmer sibling.

Pink Flame covered in two easy coats and was fully opaque(though on longer nails I suspect you may need three), but you see three here because I initially applied it without my contact lenses in, at 3am.  You see, when we moved into our new apartment, my bedroom came with the DIMMEST LIGHTING EVER.  I thought I did a pretty good job, but when I woke up and put my eyes in... I needed to fix it.  I just popped another coat on top and did a little cleanup, and voila! You'll see last night's errors on my pointer finger :P

Pink Flame reminds me a lot(and if people are interested I will do a comparison) of one of my favourite polishes, OPI The Show Must Go On from the Burlesque collection.  It's less foily and less shimmery, but the colour shift is very similar, and I'd say the intensity is similar too.  The dominant shift is bright pink to orange to gold, and it's similar in intensity to Sun Gold.

Also, I try out my new lightbox a bit in this post!  Still working out the kinks, but I think we're going to be good friends... My hands and cuticles are also much happier with my new routine, still not perfect, but I think we'll get there!  I'll be sharing my new findings with you all soon!

Battle of the Graphite dupes... Can you tell them apart?

Today I have a post I was hoping I'd be able to do at some point.. Showing off the two much-touted Graphite dupes together at last.  You know which two I mean:  OPI Number One Nemesis and Jessica Smoky Feather.  I've seen a lot of posts comparing one with Graphite(which Kas owns but I don't), so we know how they stack up in that regard, but what we DON'T know is how they stack up against one another.  So that's what today is about!

Like I tweeted last night, from the bottles alone, they're not dupes.  And on the nail, I think that's also true, but they are close.  I think 99% of you would probably be happy with owning one or the other.  I know which one I prefer.

So, first some bottle shots:

 (artificial light)

 (sunlight)

Okay, here we go!  So, as is the way with posts like these, I am wearing the Jessica on two fingers and the OPI on the other two.  

There are two coats of each, though one of them needs a third.  One is sparklier, one is more foil-y. One is bluer, one is greener.  

Can you tell which polish is which?  See if you're right after the jump.