French Manicure Ruby Deer and Where's the Soiree

Hello dear readers, welcome!

My last post was on how much I love ruby deer from China Glaze, a lovely sexy striking red creme, but the sad fact that it chips faster than, well, you can say chip.

So I did a french manicure with it because I wasn't ready to take it off, nope! Lovely red makes me feel happy! Here's how I improvised it with Color Club's Where's the Soiree, a black creme opaque in just 1 coat! Awesome!

Where's the soiree from Color Club

A red and black french manicure! Sexy and mysterious, no? Somehow it's just pull in all the right directions. I love how the starkness of the color compliment each other. Both are colors, a red and a black, and it just goes so well together, it just spells out confident, no? A I-know-what-I'm-doing look.

Modern Red and Black French Manicure: China Glaze Ruby Deer  and Color Club Where's The Soiree

Sorry for the little hiccups in the tips, I'm kinda clumsy, but I guessed you've already known it by now.

Modern Red and Black French Manicure: China Glaze Ruby Deer  and Color Club Where's The Soiree

I hope you dear readers love it, and would like to try out this look some time. Till then, cheers!

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

Nubar 2010 over OPI Mrs O'Leary's BBQ Matte

I wanted to do a matte nail polish today, but I don't want it just plain matte; I wanted something a little different in it. So this is what I did:

Base coat+ OPI Mrs. O'Leary's BBQ + Nubar 2010 + Essie Matte About You

I started with Nubar Nu Nails as the base coat, then add 2 layers of OPI Mrs O'Leary's BBQ. Mrs. O'Leary's BBQ is an awesome color, very opaque, color true to bottle in just two coats. And it's amazingly shiny! Even without a top coat. A must buy imho. The color is a deep vampy dark plummish purple, which might look close to black in very very low lights, but changes its color in certain lights. It's a teeny bit reddish in sunlight, but indoors, it's a always a beautiful dark dark plum purple. Application is awesome! Easy to control formula and I just love OPI pro wide brush!

OPI Mrs. O'Leary's BBQ

Then I top it with 1 coat of Nubar 2010. It reflects very pretty orange, green and yellow flakies, depending on the direction of angle that you look at it. I realised that it's mostly orange if your eyes are perpendicular to your nails, which is directly 90 degrees looking at it.

Nubar 2010

But if you are looking at it at 180 degrees, which means you are looking at it horizontally, it reflects more green. See the picture below has more greenish yellow than orange compared to the first picture which show a more perpendicular angle. The picture below is close to 180 degrees.

Base coat+ OPI Mrs. O'Leary's BBQ + Nubar 2010 + Essie Matte About You

Then finally I top it off with 1 coat of Essie's Matte About You.

Essie Matte About You

It gives my nails a matte smooth looking finish, and it dries lightning quick too.

My nails reminds me of the royalty or very rich people's bedsheet or curtains with the satiny rich deep red color and flakies that reflects colorful rainbows. Love it! Hope you like it too.

China Glaze Ruby Pumps

When I wanted to get China Glaze, I didn't know which color to get. Where do I start?
So I googled China Glaze Must have colors, and this came out on many list many times. Without much thinking, I added them to my order, since one can never have too much reds anyway.

And I'm glad I did.

Introducing awesomeness in a bottle (drumrollssssssss): Tahhhdahhhh.... China Glaze Ruby Pumps!

China Glaze Ruby Pumps

When I first saw the bottle, I literally drooled. It was gorgeousness in a bottle. It was sparkly red and red and sparkly and red. Ok... that was a bad description.

Ruby Pumps was a lovely red with red sparkles, in a red based jelly. It might look a little dark red, but it was sparkly when you look at it in another angle. It's not cheap red, but makes you think of high classed, magical unforgettable red sparkles. Not angry red, but simply magical red. Do you get me?

And yes, it was nearly impossible to photograph it's true colors, until I adjust my camera setting.

The true color can never show up if it were to show my real skintone, so I adjusted the lighting to 'incandescent". 

It makes me look blue... a little, like avatar, but it shows the true awesomeness of Ruby Pumps.

It's just a normal red, nothing special, I'll pass red in normal camera setting. See the normal skintone? You can't capture the beauty of Ruby Pumps here.

Ruby Pumps in shade

In direct sunlight, you see the flecks of the sparkles, but no shining shining sparkles there. Again, it's just a normal red.

Ruby Pumps in direct sunlight

But look at these in incandescent lighting! Weird avatar skintone, I know, but the shining little sparkles are peeking out of the deeper based red jelly!!! Awesome Rubio Pumpo!

China Glaze Ruby Pumps

It actually is silver sparkles in deep red jelly, but I believe the jelly dye them red, because when I remove them, I see silver sparkles on my nails. Amazing eh?

Can I drool 1 more time? Ahhhhhhhhhh! The pretties on mah fingers!

I decided to konad them with golden stars! These konading are done with Konad Plates M3, with China Glaze Passion from the Romantique collection. Will do a comparison between China Glaze Passion and 2030 soon.

Konad Ruby Pumps and CG passion in normal lighting

Awesomenesssssssssssss!

China Glaze Ruby Pumps konad with M3 plate using China Glaze Passion (gold)

Go get a bottle of China Glaze Ruby Pumps. I doubt you'll regret. It's so so pretty!