Nina Ultra Pro - Purple-Xing

Purple-Xing is literally AMAZING. I love this polish, it's definitely my favourite. I cannot get over how much of a stunner it is! I've posted so many pics because there's just so much to it that it can't be captured very easily, the very last close up picture is a good one but there's just so many sparkles in it all different colours, it's gorgeous! I'm babbling though, sorry.
On my index and middle finger I put on some top coat, just to see the difference it would make since it seems quite matte, although i'm not sure if that's just because there's so much glitter, I think I prefer it with the SV.
The polish is quite thick but still needs a couple of coats just to even out the coverage, it's really not difficult to apply though, I literally cannot think of a bad word to say about this polish, it's fab!!

 

So did you guys get anyone with an April Fools? A few of my friends told their parents they were pregnant as a joke! I have to say I did consider doing the same but I didn't want to be the cause of my mothers death, or mine depending on how she took it... Haha :)

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Nina Ultra Pro - Luminous Lavender

Luminous Lavender is a very sheer polish. It's a bluey/white with a pink duochrome and is very shimmery. This is such a pretty colour, I can't stop looking at it!
The pictures below capture the base colour quite well but not the pink duochrome, although you can sort of get the idea of it in the last two pictures, and you can't really see the shimmer either :(
The application was pretty much what you would expect from such a sheer polish, took god knows how many coats to get to the opaqueness in the pictures and there is still some very obvious VNL, ugh. I usually hate sheer polishes as I really don't like the VNL but this one i'm actually quite keen on :)
This was all without my lovely Seche Vite, took so much willpower not to put it on!

Glimpse of the shimmery pink in the
bottle

Stupid short middle finger!

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Nina Ultra Pro - Caramel Cream

Sorry for the lack of posts the past couple of days, i'm back on track now!
Today's Nina is a reddy/brown sort of colour, burgundy I suppose with a nice, gold shimmer - they sure do love their shimmer's, especially gold!
Unfortunately, from wearing this polish the last three days I have come to the conclusion that the gold shimmer likes to hide. I have not once been able to see any of it whilst outside, sunny or not. When I'm inside, you can see it a little bit but only if you're really looking for it, my camera actually picked it up a lot better than my eyes!
That said, I do really like the actual colour of the nail polish so it's not that much of a bummer although it would be nice to see the shimmer, it wouldn't stop me from wearing it. You can sort of see the shimmer if you look at the bottle in the pictures below.

Application was good, it needed two coats and doesn't take very long to dry, I love this brand! What do you guys think of the colour?

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Nina Ultra Pro - Last Call

Last Call is another great colour from Nina. It's a lovely deep purple with some complimenting gold shimmer appearing when the light falls on it. The name struck me as quite odd as all the other names from this brand seem to be reference to the colour and this one is completely random, strange!
This wasn't as much of a pain to apply as the last two though, I (gasp!) didn't wear a basecoat and put two coats of this colour on, looking at them now I think they could probably have done with another coat though, just to really beef them up :)
Once again I apologise for the messy clean up, I swear my camera captures more than my eye, grr! If you look at the bottle in the pictures you can see the lovely gold shimmer, the bottom picture is a close up that I probably should have taken in sunlight although it does show you what it looks like indoors :)

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Nina Ultra Pro - Purple Pizzaz

Purple Pizzaz is another lovely colour from Nina. I don't really know how to describe the type of purple it is because it's just... well, purple really, the pictures are accurate though so you can see for yourself. I tried to take the pictures in the sun in an attempt to capture the lovely shimmers in this polish, it didn't really work though :( but take my word for it there's some lovely pink shimmers in this polish when the light catches it and if you look really hard you should also see some incredibly subtle gold shimmer in there too, it's probably quite hard to imagination that combination but it does look really pretty!
Unfortunately this polish again isn't quite as much of a dream to apply as the Rasberri Sparkle from the other day, it's not as opaque and takes about 2 coats to look decent but that's not really a problem anyway :)
Please excuse my nasty short middle finger! I'm ashamed to say I succumbed to biting my nails yesterday so this one and two on my right hand were the poor victims, booo! :(

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Nina Ultra Pro - Royal Purple

Today's Nina is called Royal Purple. From looking at the bottles next to each other I assumed it was the purple version of yesterday's Rasberri Sparkle, I was wrong though, in the bottle they look very similar but on the nail they are completely different. For a start, the formula is completely different; applying this I started to hate it, it was quite difficult to apply evenly and is nowhere near as opaque as the Rasberri Sparkle, in the pictures below I'm wearing 3 coats of it!

The shimmer in it is similar to Rasberri sparkle and it's got the mixture of dark and light shades but that's where the similarities end. I'm really not keen on this polish at all to be honest! What do you guys think?

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Nina Ultra Pro - Rasberri Sparkle

I only just recently discovered this brand when I spotted a few bottles in the bargain bucket at Sally's, this was one of them but I've recently been back and bought more at full price since I really like them and now have 7. I'd like to do a swatch of each of them so for the next 6 days that's what you'll be getting!
This particular one is called Rasberri Sparkle and is a lovely deep pink with a very subtle shimmer that looks fabulous in the sun!

I love the application of this, it's lovely and smooth and is so opaque it only needs one coat so it dries fairly quickly too. The close up picture sort of gives you an idea of the shimmer in it, it's got some light shimmery pinks that really show in the sun and some lovely dark pinks also. I thought I'd show you one of my cushions that reminds me of it, the polish is actually a little darker but the light shimmers in it are a very similar colour.

And this, so far is my collection of Nina Ultra Pro polishes, hopefully will be growing soon! L-R: Luminous Lavender* (you can hardly see this one), Purple-Xing, Royal Purple, Purple Pizzaz, Last Call, Rasberri Sparkle* and Caramel Cream*.

*I think these may be discontinued as they were the ones I found in the bargain bucket, they haven't gone off so that's the only other reason I can think that they may have wanted to get rid of them.

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Day 30 - Favourite nail polish...

My favourite nail polish is by Nina Ultra Pro and is called Purple X-ing. It's such a gorgeous deep purple with all sorts going on inside that little bottle. There's so many different little glitters and it dries in a sort of matte texture. I personally am not a fan of matte, especially not with this as the glitters tend to catch on things, so I put a top coat on after i took the pictures below.
I have only recently discovered this brand and am a massive fan, it's only £3.89 per bottle and is such good quality formula, I keep picking more colours up and have about 7 so far, love them!

Remember you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them - to get a better idea of what the polish really looks like, it's very slightly darker in real life. Please excuse my messy job of doing my nails, I'm ashamed to say I did them quite hurriedly as I put it on just for this post. I'll do a proper review of it soon with some better pictures :)

Finally finished the 30 day challenge, now the real blogging begins! Thanks for reading! xxx