Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Nails Inc Gossip Girl - Lily

Today I have for you the last of the Gossip Girl collaborations from Nails Inc, Lily. See here for the Blair set and here for Serena. I am quite sad actually that there are only the 3 of these as would love some more of the Overglazes as these 3 have been stunning.

Here is a picture of the Lily set.



Lily is a very dark black/plum base, coverage was great with 1 coat, and could have possibly just been left at that but here is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 coats of Lily and no top coat.




And now for the Overglaze, which is called High Society in this set.  It is described as a red/green overglaze on the Nails Inc website but to be honest I did not see much red in this, mostly green (a couple of different shades) and gold, and a very slight hit of blue sometimes at the sides but no red.  That does not, however, change how much I like this polish, as the fact there isn't red makes me like it more (more info coming up on this soon).

For now here is the above mani with 1 coat of Overglaze and 1 coat of the Shield.





I love this collection too and still cannot decide which is my favourite so I am so glad I have all 3.

Now back to why the lack of red is a good thing, I am sure when many people (me included) seen the description for this Overglaze, it sounded an awful lot like Nubar 2010, which I have shown you before here and matte here, I was so happy that when I actually tried them together they are not that similar at all.

High Society has a lot more of the green/gold flakies where as 2010 does show green but the main colours are red and orange.  I would also say the flakes in the Nails Inc polish are larger than the Nubar.  Here is a quick comparison picture for you to see, this is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of Lily and 1 coat of High Society on pointer and ring fingers and 1 coat of 2010 on middle and pinkie fingers, with 1 coat of the Shield over all.


Thanks for looking and I hope you have liked these collections.

The Nails Inc product was sent to me for review, the Nubar was purchased by me.

7 comments:

  1. oh ... Rebecca .... moreish.

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  2. Thank you Linda, this won't be the last you see of the overglazes I don't think anyway, they are so pretty <3 xx

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  3. oooh! I like this one more than I thought I would! I was expecting it to look like Nubar 2010. Thanks for the review on these! Now if only they had these in Canada... I know the Sephora ones are the same, but I want the ones with Gossip Girl on them!

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  4. lol, I must admit, I quite like the Gossip Girl tie in, and thank you <3 xx

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  5. I'm glad it's not just me who couldn't really see the red in the flakies!! (It did sort of show up in one photo, but I don't know where it came from! lol) I'm really glad that you compared it to Nubar 2010 because I was curious about how similar they would be. Oh dear, looks like I still need 2010 after all ;)

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  6. Wow your pics are fab! Off to have a good old nosey around your blog xx

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  7. lol, I am happy I have all of them, and honestly would be happy with even more flakies Marie, they just spice up a polish so well :) xx

    And thank you Claire, nosey away <3 xx

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