Nail polish battle: Nubar 2010 vs. Essence Waking up in Vegas

When I first saw the new Limited collection of Essence online I thought yeah I need to have all of them. 

Well, I reserved all of them in my local drug store. 

However, when I was on my way back to Göttingen I saw the collection and couldn't resist and took one with me. 

The dance top coat was very similar to my Nubar 2010 which I got in a swap with Katie.

In the sunlight you can see the flakes. 

Here in the swatch.

The essence one is the top nail

the Nubar 2010 in the lower one 

I used one coat of each top coat. 

as you can see the Essence one has more flakes than the Nubar one.

But the Nubar has different shapes of flakes. 

The colour reflection is almost the same.

Pretty isn't it? I would say it's a dupe, not a perfect one but still the differences are too little to speak from two completely different polishes.  

Rimmel Style Hunter & Nubar 2010

Have I told you about my love to the Rimmel London brushes?

Maybe...

Its very similar to one of my P2 polishes but I still love it

Katie, sent me my first Nubar a couple of days ago. Its a flaky, something which we don't have normally in Germany. 

Its amazingly pretty! 

A top coat which is not too shiny but gives the polish an extra bit glamour. 

I'm very much in love 

What do you think? Isn't it a great combination? 

my second international swap

The crazy Katie from The Nailaholic

sent me a wonderful package. 

It's really amazing and I didn't expect all this!

From left to right:

CG Fairy Dust, CG Dorothy Who?, CG Sexy in the City,

CG skyscraper, Orly (?), Nubar 2010, OPI Teenage Dream,

NYC starry silver glitter, Kleancolor Holo Chrome, Sinful color What's your name

and finally CG Strawberry field 

And of couse American sweets!

Isn't this an amazing collection of wonderful things?

Have you done an international swap? Or will you do one? Isn't it a great way to get polishes which you can't get that easily in Germany or Europe? 

xxx your over the moon Steffi