Zoya Naturel 3 Collection Swatches and Reviews: Part I

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Hi guys! Tonight I have the first of 2 parts from the Zoya Naturel 3 Collection. Every year Zoya releases a 6-piece "transitional" collection of cremes between the winter and spring collections, and it features neutrals or nude polishes. I like to just call these colors my palate cleansers. I, like others, am a huge fan of bright colors and glitters during the holiday season, so it's nice to have something a little different to make you appreciate those bright colors when you come back to them. How about we get to some swatches?

Nubar 2014 Falling in Love Collection Swatches and Reviews: Passion's Pain and Queen

Nubar Passion's Pain (3 coats)

Nubar Queen (2 coats)

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Ok, we're at the halfway point in the Falling in Love collection and today I have the purple polishes. Well, the first one, Passion's Pain is more of a brown/purple raisin jelly that reminded me of OPI Scores a Goal! from the Brazil collection, but a bad version of it. The formula was a bit watery, and even with 3 even coats, I couldn't get it to even out on my nails. I think I'd take a pass and get the OPI version.

The second polish is a beautiful jewel toned purple shimmer aptly called Queen. Please accept my apologies for the blurry last picture. I was going to leave it out and then thought, "What the hell?" and left it. It had a wonderful formula in just 2 coats, but I found that it's not that unique of a color, despite it being pretty. What do you think?

Nubar is a 5-free company and you can find more about them on their website, Facebook, or Twitter pages. Each polish retails for $8.40, but if you buy the whole Falling in Love collection right now, you get a discount.

*These polishes were provided by the company or PR representative. All reviews are based solely on my opinion. For more information, please see my full disclosure at the bottom of the site*

Sinful Colors Summer 2014 Full Throttle Collection Swatches and Reviews: Rain Rubber, Race Rubber, Rubber Ball

SinfulColors Rain Rubber (2 coats)

SinfulColors Race Rubber (2 coats)

SinfulColors Rubber Ball (2 coats)

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I'm really excited about these rubber finishes on the SinfulColors Summer Collection called Full Throttle. I have three of them to show you starting with Rain Rubber which is a bright blue with a very slightly textured finish and a slight sheen. The texture is nothing like a true matte textured polish, but just slightly bumpy. Orly tried to do something like this a few years back (or was it plastic finish?), either way, it didn't work. I think these are great and all applied wonderfully in 2 coats with a semi-fast drying time since you don't use topcoat. You also don't want to add too many coats because it can affect the rubber finish.

The second polish is one I asked for because I thought it would be one I wouldn't like; yes, all in the name of the blog. Race Rubber is a raisin colored polish that has lots of purple and brown. It's not my favorite, but I didn't hate it like I thought. It reminds me of a textured version of OPI's OPI Scores a Goal!. 

And finally we have Rubber Ball, which is the exact color of those pink balls I would play with as a child like this:

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Anyway, when I wore this one, I got so many compliments on it and people wanted to know what kind of finish it was. 

What do you think? There are 6 polishes in all, and you can find them for $1.99 at your local Rite Aid right now and next month at Walgreens. You can find SinfulColors on Twitter or Facebook to check out what's new in their world.

*These polishes were provided by the company or PR representative. All reviews are based solely on my opinion. For more information, please see my full disclosure at the bottom of the site*

OPI Spring 2014 Brazil Collection Swatches: Live.Love.Carnaval and OPI Scores a Goal!

 OPI Live.Love.Carnaval (2 coats)

OPI Scores a Goal! (2 coats)

If you are interested in seeing some of my swatches before I blog them, check out my Instagram and Twitter pages for previews (they're both @rightonthenail). Unlike some people, I don't post like crazy, and you get to see some polishes (and maybe a couple cats once in awhile...I know, I can't help myself). Do you love nails and post nail stuff? If so, let me know so I can follow you!

I have 3 more polishes from the Brazil collection to show you (again, I skipped the less unique or neutral colors, despite thinking they looked great as well). The two that I have today are very different, but lovely nonetheless. Up first is Live.Love.Carnaval which is a name that I actually don't hate! Hooray! That has to be a first. It's a coral creme that leans more red than the other corals in the collection. I really liked this one, and I found that many others did, too. The second polish I have to show is an interesting raisin red/brown creme that is so weird. So weird and I love it so much! It looked more brown on my darker-skinned friend, while it looked more raisin color on me. This is one that either you love it or hate it, but I think it's interesting. Both had perfect application and formula which only needed 2 coats.