Nubar - Gem

Nubar Gem is kind of an odd duck.  It's a holo glitter like Prize, but the base color... I think I would have to describe it as frosty greige.  It's not quite purple, and not quite beige.  I say a lot that I have a hard time capturing certain polishes on camera, but that was nothing compared to the problems I had with this one.

Basecoat:  Nubar Foundation (1 coat)

Color:  Nubar Gem (3.5 coats)

Topcoat:  Gelous (1 coat)

Topcoat:  Nubar Diamont (1 coat)

The third photo is probably the most accurate color for the base of Gem, but only the bottle part, not really the polish on my nails.

Application was okay for this - very similar to Prize.  Because it's less vivid of a base color, I felt like it was easier to control and clean up - that, or it was just less noticeable.

I did do the Gelous thing before using Diamont.  This polish looks MUCH grittier in photos, but it is totally smooth in real life.  The holo is much stronger, too, but it's overcast today and I had a hard time getting decent light.  Even the last photo, under desk light, doesn't show it as much.

Still, this is a really nice polish, and I'm still intrigued by the base color - would I wear this without the glitter?  Who knows?  It seems like it might be brush-stroke-y without the glitter, but I can't really tell.

Sally Hansen - Concrete

Today I have a polish that isn't untried.  I guess you could call it a "palate cleanser", though I'm wearing it because I have to wear something conservative today, and my last polish (China Glaze Ruby Pumps) is soooo not conservative.

Basecoat:  Gelous (1 coat)

Color:  Sally Hansen Concrete (3 coats)

Topcoat:  Seche Vite (1 coat)

Please excuse my freshly applied Solar Oil, especially in the third picture.  Oops.

I might have been able to get away with two coats.  However, I applied this way late last night, under much different lighting than I usually use, so I went with three coats to be safe.  Application was pretty good (the XW brush is light years better than the CSM brush) and cleanup was super easy, too.  I like this better on me than I did the last time I wore this.  I tried a few different nude-type polishes but I guess I only buy these in the winter, because they all looked super-yellow against my summer tan.

Color Club - High Society

Here is a nice palate cleanser type color. I swatched another bunch of greige polishes today and decided to wear High Society. (I also decided to go ahead and buy the full size Essie Merino Cool.) High Society is a greige creme.
It is not quite as warm as this photo makes it appear. You can tell from the cap that I got this as part of a box set from Ross - the top is smooth and doesn't have the Color Club logo on the top of the cap. The other annoying thing is that these sets never have names on the bottle, so you're stuck relying on nailgal and Google Images to find out which polishes you have. And, if your Ross is anything like mine, just because the names are on the box, it doesn't mean you actually have those polishes in your box - people swap polishes in and out of different boxes all the time.
This photo is more accurate in color, though I should have used flash for it.

Basecoat: Nubar Foundation (2 coats)
Color: Color Club High Society (3 coats)
Topcoat: Out the Door (1 coat)

Application was excellent, as it usually is for Color Club cremes. Not streaky, not too runny or too thick, very nice. Cleanup was also very easy.