Ruby Wing Festival Paint Collection

The ruby Wing Festival Paint Collection was released for Summer 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere.  It is now summer here in the Southern hemisphere so I decided to give this collection a try.

IN THE SHADE

Top Row: Crowd Surf, Groupie, Summer Love

Bottom Row: Eternal, Green Peace, Electric Firefly

IN THE SUNSHINE

Top Row: Crowd Surf, Groupie, Summer Love

Bottom Row: Eternal, Green Peace, Electric Firefly

This was honestly the hardest collection I have ever had to photograph. Neons are so hard to photograph and even harder to photograph when you cant go in the sun, because they will change colour.

Ruby Wing Crowd Surf - Shade

Ruby Wing Crowd Surf - Sunshine

Crowd Surf is a crelly fuchsia purple in the shade and a darker plum colour in the sun.  This is three coats.  Its consistency is a mixture of jelly and crème (crelly), so is like a jelly polish, but not as see through and squishy.  the Picture in the sun is not quite colour accurate as it is a darker deeper purple in real life. Purples are notoriously hard to photograph.

Ruby Wing Electric Firefly - Shade

Ruby Wing Electric Firefly - Shade

Electric Firefly is the only shimmer polish in this collection. It has a bright electric blue shimmer running through it. This is three coats and I found the formula on this one quite runny.  In the sunshine it changes to a vivid orange colour.  The shimmer is still present in the sunhine too.

Ruby Wing Eternal - Shade

Ruby Wing Eternal - Sunshine

Eternal has the most drastic colour change in the sunshine out of all the polishes in this collection.  It changes from a teal green crème into a grey/purple crème in the sun.  This is two coats and the formula on this one is great.  I found all of these polishes to dry quite quickly as well.

Ruby Wing Green Peace - Shade

Ruby Wing Green Peace - Sunshine

Green Peace is a crelly (a mixture of crème and jelly finish) polish.  This is three coats. It changes from a bright highlighter neon green into a forest green in the sunshine. 

Ruby Wing Groupie - Shade

Ruby Wing Groupie - Sunshine

This one was hardest to photograph. It is a bright neon highlighter pink. It is a Barbie pink, that looks like a highlighter does in the shade.  The bottle shot in the top photo is the most colour accurate photo of this polish.  This polish has a crème finish and only needs two coats, as it is the perfect consistency.  It changes to a darker non-neon pink in the sun.

Ruby Wing Summer Love - Shade

Ruby Wing Summer Love - Sunshine

Summer Love is a bright neon orange in the sun and a red/orange toned brown in the sun. This one also has the crelly finish, being a cross between a jelly and a crème polish. This was three coats. Logically it makes sense for orange to turn brown in the sun, but it is a hard polish to match with clothing. It feels totally 80s.

Lots of Love

Lisa

This collection was sent to me for review from Color Club New Zealand.

Ruby Wing Spring Garden Collection

 

The Ruby Wing Spring Garden was released mid 2013 and is a collection of six colour changing polishes that are also scented. Today I have four of this collection to show you.

Ruby Wing Cut Grass - Inside

Ruby Wing Cut Grass - Sunshine

Cut grass is a pastel green that changes to a darker dustier green in the sunshine.  While it doesn't actually smell like fresh cut glass (which the Ruby Wing website says it does), it does smell nice.  To be honest it smells like my shampoo, it is floral scented, but I cant figure out like what flower, either way it smells nicer than grass. This is two coats and the polish applies like a dream. It is not streaky at all.

Ruby Wing Fresh Linen - Inside

Ruby Wing Fresh Linen - Sunshine

This is three coats. It has the thinnest formula of this collection and unfortunately does leave streaks on the nail. This one smells fruity - a lot like lemon, but a clean flowery lemon scent.  This one changes from a shimmery slightly frosty white into a light yellow colour.

Ruby Wing Poppy - Inside

Ruby Wing Poppy - Sunshine

Poppy is a vibrant pink jelly (although not quite as neon as the above picture suggests) which changes into a deeper burgundy colour in the sun.  This is two coats which apply perfectly for full coverage. This one smells rose scented, although I suspect it is actually poppy scented.

Ruby Wing Sunflower - Inside

Ruby Wing Sunflower - Sunshine

Sunflower is the glittery polish in this collection. It is a clear base packed full of gold micro glitter. This one is interesting because the glitter doesn't change colour in the sun, but the base it is in changes from clear into a bright yellow base, which makes the glitter look yellower and more golden.  This is three coats and I was surprised to see that it did actually provide good coverage in those three coats.  This one also smells flowery and shampoo like, although I am pretty sure its not the same scent that sunflowers have.

All in all I am happy with the four polishes I have from this collection and absolutely love that they combined colour changing polishes with scented polishes.  I was wearing Cut Grass all day today, however didn't really get time to get outside (and it was horrible) weather, so I didn't actually get to see it do its magical colour change.

Lots of Love
Lisa

These polishes were provided to me for review.

Ruby Wing Meadow

Meadow is another polish from the Ruby Wing colour changing collection.  This is the only metallic polish in this collection.

Ruby Wing Meadow - inside

Ruby Wing Meadow - outside

First off, I think they named this polish wrong. Meadow to me means grass and should have been a green polish. 

This is three coats. It applies like a regular metallic polish and is slightly brush strokey.  The colour change in this one is obvious, as it changes from silver in the shade to a mauve-pink metallic in the sun.  

I am not sure if I mentioned this before but these polishes still change colour with a top coat on, and can be a major distraction if you sit near a window at work.

Lots of Love

Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review

Ruby Wing Tide

Tide is another polish from the Ruby Wing 2012 colour changing collection.  The name doesn't seem to match the polish, to me tide is associated with the sea and should be blue/teal/green/grey coloured.

Ruby Wing Tide - Shade/Inside

Ruby Wing Tide - Outside/Sunshine

Inside Tide is iridescent glitter inside a very very pale pink see through jelly like base. Outside and under UV light Tide darkens and turns into a dark pink/red. The glitter is harder to see and becomes slightly matte.  This one is interesting because inside feels like it should just be a top coat, but I think any base colour used may alter the colour the polish turns outside.

Some of the Ruby wing polishes are currently on sale in New Zealand for NZ$9.90 at USANailsOnline (but Tide is still $19.90).

Lots of Love

Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review

Ruby Wing Myth

Myth is another colour changing polish from Ruby Wing.  Luckily we actually have some sun here at the moment, so I was able to swatch this.  It has not really been a great summer so far yet.

Ruby Wing Myth - shade

Ruby Wing Myth - sunshine

This is three coats. It applies nicely like a regular creme polish.  Three coats was needed as it was still a bit sheer after only two.  This is a dusty light pink inside or in the shade. In the sun it darkens to a dusty mauve pink.  It takes between 30 and 60 seconds to full change in the sun, and a little longer to fade in the shade back to the lighter pink.  It is really cool to watch.

You can find Ruby Wing polishes for sale in New Zealand here.

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review

Ruby Wing Festival

Festival is a new polish from the Ruby Wing polish line. I wore this yesterday to my work Christmas party.  Festival is a light multicoloured lilac glitter that in the sun changes into a dark deep multicoloured blue glitter.  Luckily it was a sunny day because the colour change in this is awesome to watch all day long.

Ruby Wing Festival - indoors

Ruby Wing Festival - outdoors

This was three coats. Coverage was good. I had no chips at the end of 24 hours with this on, using a coat of gelous and a coat of SV over top.  It is a glitter so was a pain to take off but it is so worth it to wear this pretty.  This polish is definitely in my top 10 for this year!

Lots of Love
Lisa

Coming soon to NZ: Ruby Wing

Color Club NZ announced today the debut of Ruby Wing.

Ruby Wing polishes contain a unique photochromic compound that changes colour in UV light. Step outside into the sunshine, and the polishes change colour. Step back inside and watch them revert. 18 shades turn into 36!

The Ruby Wing Collection will have 18 polishes:
Lagoon, Moonstone, Festival, Zen Garden, Gypsy, Eclipse, Mystic, Wild Flower, Horizon, Myth, Meadow, Sweet Rose, Tide, Birdie, Desert Valley, Fate, Sand Dune and Cypress

Solar Club’s Ruby Win collection will be launch in New Zealand in early October 2012 and will be available from selected Pharmacies, Fashion stores including Amazon Surf & Skate, and Professional users.

About Solar Club
Solar Club is manufactured by Forsythe Cosmetics LLC, also the manufacturer of Color Club Polishes. Solar Club polishes maintain Forsythe’s reputation for high performance rich shades and exceptionally safe products. From the brightest neons, to glitter and French, all nail colors are vegan, formaldehyde, toluene, and DBP-free – and made in New York, USA from the best raw materials.

Don't these look awesome, especially the glitter/flaky ones. I had heard about these before but as far as I could tell you could only order them online. But yay they are coming here for summer!

Lots of Love,
Lisa

BYS Colour Change Salmon

I thought because BYS colour change purple ended up being so great and interesting I would try another of the creme colour changes from BYS. These seem to be selling well in New Zealand because they only had a couple of the colours left when I went back to get more the other day. So I picked up Salmon from this collection.

BYS Colour Change Salmon - sunshine - Cold

BYS Colour Change Salmon - sunshine - Hot

Salmon is a pretty accurate colour description for this polish. And a slightly better name than the other polishes have in this collection (e.g. purple, blue). It changes from a medium salmon peach colour to a very pale light salmon colour when it is warmed up.

This is three coats. It is a nice formula that is easy to apply and dries quickly. It does dry slightly matte though, but a glossy top coat fixes that problem (and as I discovered last time, the colour change still works with the top coat)

I finally got fed up with our lack of sun and crappy weather and spent today building myself a light box. I still need to get a new lightbulb, but hopefully it works out and I will be able to photograph swatches when ever I want to. Fingers crossed it works well :)

Hope your weekends are going well.

Lots of Love
Lisa

BYS Colour Change Bright Purple

This is the second polish I tried from BYS's Colour Change range. And this was a much better experience than the first one.
Originally I wasn't so keen on this one as it didn't have the glitter in it, like Glitter Blue did (see that post here) But it is made up of two really nice girly colours that may actually be ruined with glitter.

BYS Colour Change Bright Purple - cold state - sunshine

This is 3 coats. The polish goes on this purple and dries this colour too. If you enlarge the picture you can actually see there is some very fine shimmer to this polish. Although in the bottle it looks creme. this applied easy and dry time was good. It is a little on the runny side, but not too bad that you cant work with it.

This one was the opposite of the Blue glitter one I used last time. Here I had to run my hands under hot water to get the polish to change colour (last time I had to use cold water).

BYS Colour Change Bright Purple - warm state - sunshine

I do quite like this one. I am currently doing a mani of this at the moment. Although to be honest I'm not sure about what happens when you put a top coat over these - does it then just stay the one colour? or change under the top coat? I'll let you know.

If you are interested in owning 2 of these BYS colour change polishes, then enter my 300 followers giveaway! (see side bar)

These are available in New Zealand for NZ$8.90. Also available in Australia and online at fashionaddict.com.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Edit: I am now wearing this again, with a top coat and it seems fine. Although my temperature must be different from last time because my nails are pink , with purple tips at the moment :) I wish my nails were longer so i could have more purple looking coolness at the tips.

Edit number 2: I have had this on for over a day and absolutely love it! It is much pinker than the photo above shows. It lasted well with a top coat and still changed to full on purple when i was cold or washed my hands in cold water. LOVE

300 Followers Giveaway!

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!!!
Thanks to all those who took the time to enter
xoxoxoxox

So unfortunately overnight we went back down to 299 followers :(
But I promised a giveaway so here it is.....

Prize includes:
BYS Colour Change Purple Glitter
BYS Colour Change Blue
BYS Nail Art Mirror Silver
BYS Nail Art White
BYS Cracked Patel Purple
BYS Cracked Pink
OPI Start to Finish
BYS Diamond Shadow (eyeshadow)

(all of these are brand new and unused. These have all been purchased by myself for the purpose of this giveaway)

This give away is open internationally and will close in one months time, on Saturday 30th April.

The rules:

1. You must be a follower (Please put let me know your GFC name) and provide an email address (1 entry)
2. Blog about this give away or put it in your side bar (1 entry) please provide a link
3. Add me to your blog roll (1 entry) please provide a link
4. Tell me how many polishes you have in your stash (1 entry)
   
5. Tell me what your favourite polish colour is to wear (1 entry)
6. Tell me what your favourite polish finish is to wear (1 entry)
   
7. Tell me what country you are in (I love to see where you are all from) (1 entry)
   

Just leave a comment below with your details :)

Lots of Love and Good Luck!
Lisa

P.S. Melanie asked me to answer the questions above too.
I have just over 350 polishes in my collection.
My favourite colour to wear is purple
and I love holo polishes the most

BYS Colour Change Blue Glitter

I have so many things to post about at the moment! I don't know what to post first!

So here is the first BYS Colour Change polish I tried out. These are available in New Zealand for NZ$8.90. Also available in Australia and online at fashionaddict.com.

This is Blue Glitter. (pretty simple name huh?)

It was a lot more sheer than I expected. This is three coats. Applies easily, but takes a little while to dry. It applies dark (ie the colour of the polish in the bottle) but as it dries it changes to a very light sheer blue. There is little bits of silver glitter through out the polish, that is quite cute.

When your hands are warm it is a light blue. It is quite subtle, even with the glitter when it is this colour and I became quite fond of it like this.

BYS Colour Change Glitter Blue - warm state - natural light

When you make the polish cold it changes from light blue to only a slightly darker blue. I used cold water to get this to work.

BYS Colour Change Glitter Blue - cold state - natural light

I was actually kind of disappointed with the lack of colour change, but in saying that the two colours on the bottle lid are these two here - so in that sense it is meeting its own standards. I think a darker blue would have been nice.

What do you think? have you tried the BYS colour change polishes?
I've got another three to try out, so we will wait and see how they all are.

Lots of Love
Lisa

BYS colour change polishes

Edit: Cosmetic Plus told me today that these polishes are a week away as their shipment was delayed.

Finally Colour change polishes are being released by a brand easily available in New Zealand!

BYS is releasing 7 colour change polishes that change colour based on temperature (usually controlled by washing hands in hot or cold water) - and some of them are even shimmer/glitters!! (all pictures and information is taken from www.bys.com.au)

Blue

Glitter Purple

Salmon

Glitter Blue

Bright Purple

Bright Pink

Royal Blue

I so can not wait! I think I might have to get them all!

BYS polishes retail from $5.90 to $8.90 in New Zealand, although sometimes it takes a while to get them here from Australia.

Lots of Love
Lisa