Ruby Wing Doux and Strawberry Shortcake

I was starting to worry that I wouldn't get another good sunny day to photograph these two Ruby Wing shades, but it was such a gorgeous morning yesterday that I dropped everything else I was doing and swatched these two beauties! If only I didn't have to hurry and run off to work, I would have loved to create some nail art. Work would understand if i showed up late because I was playing with polish, right?


Ruby Wing Doux
Doux consists of beautiful translucent to purple glass flecks packed in a solar active base which is transparent indoors and purple under the sun. Indoors, it reminds me a lot of Color Club Pearl-spective, although I have not compared the two. I would usually be tempted to layer this over something dark and really show off the flecks, but since I wanted to capture the color change, I layered it over white. In addition to being solar active, Doux is also a perfume scented. This is two coats over white with no top coat...

Outside, under the sun, the polish in the bottle turned to a vibrant purple. On my nail it was more of a periwinkle blue and sometimes even gray, although I didn't capture the gray state. I think the difference between bottle and nail color outdoors could be due to my white base, but I chose to use it with a base since indoors it would just look like nakie nails...

I just love this color! It is hard to believe this drastic transformation from indoors to outdoors. I think it is fun that you can have a nice neutral manicure for the office/indoors and when you go out, it turns to something more fun...

Swatch Details
	Brand: Ruby Wing Collection: Cupcakes & Champagne, Fall 2013 Color Name/Number: Doux Number of coats: 2 (layered over white) Top Coat: No Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP)

Ruby Wing Strawberry Shortcake
Small gold and holographic glitter packed in a solar active base. There is also some red, green and more small glitter sprinkled in. The base is clear indoors and turns to a burgundy red out under the sun. This can easily be layered over other polishes for a topper effect, but today I chose to use it on it's own. It builds up to almost complete coverage at three coats. The tips are difficult to wrap is using this on it's own. Similarly to Doux, this polish is also perfume scented. Swatches are with no top coat...

Outside, it is once again a dramatic color transformation. The glitter seems to embed itself in a burgundy jelly base. I just love it!

Swatch Details
	Brand: Ruby Wing Collection: Cupcakes & Champagne, Fall 2013 Color Name/Number: Strawberry Shortcake Number of coats: 3 Top Coat: No Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP)

Make sure to do your clean up of these outside when the color changes because you will not see all the issues until the color changes. Trust me on that one, my cuticles looked awful ;)

I would love to know what you think of these!

Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)

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