China Glaze Ruby Deer

I should think every nail polish hoarder-holic would have a basic striking red creme in her collection. I was looking for the perfect, classy, hot, seductive red creme nail polish a while back, and I was indecisive between China Glaze's Ruby Deer and Phat Santa. I didn't want a red creme with orange base, nor do I want it to be a blue base. I just want a red, period.

So many nail bloggers photographed Ruby Deer quite orange, and I was favoring Phat Santa, until I saw in someone's blog that Ruby Deer is the santa claus red, and Phat Santa is more deep blue red. So I took a plunge and chose Ruby Deer.

It was a decision I never regretted.

China Glaze Ruby Deer

It has the different silver cap of limited edition?? I'm not sure of that, but it is a bright seductive classy true red that is just plain red.

Yes, compared to Phat Santa it seems a little more orange, but Phat Santa leans towards the dark cherry/mulberry kind of red, while ruby deer is plain red, like coca-cola red.

China Glaze Ruby Deer

n the next picture, I adjusted the color setting to a little less red/more blue, because I realised that the red in Ruby Deer tends to show up much more orange than it really is. That is why I hesitated to buy  it because I thought it was orangey-red.

China Glaze Ruby Deer

Application wise is very smooth and opaque in 2 coats. Color true to bottle in 2 coats too. One of the downside is this is one nail polish that chips easily. I've never had a smooth good nail polish that chips so fast!

It chips in about 1 or 2 days, and awful tipwear. :(

Usually I encounter chips easily in pastel color or thick goopy nail polish, but this has quite a good formula...

China Glaze Ruby Deer

 Below shows the picture of my chip in the 2nd day, some bigger chips on my thumb and awful tipwear on the right nails, but I did a french mani to cover it up. Will show it to my dear readers in the next post. Till then readers, have a nice day~ :D