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"Tiffany Blue" Search (Swatches)

China Glaze, Nfu Oh 15 comments

Here are my follow-up swatches for this previous post...

Sorry for the inconsistent lighting. Some colors get washed out (by my stupid camera!) if they are photographed in direct light. I wandered around the house trying to find the best location to take pictures of each shade. I probably looked like a nut. I was all over the place with my face at my camera's display screen. I'm surprised I didn't trip over anything, including the cat!

Here are the shades I started collecting to try to find a Tiffany-blue. Nfu Oh #172, 206, & 394, as well as China Glaze's For Audrey. I bought #172 and #206 based on their color from the pictures online. Once I received them and saw how off I was, I asked Jocelyn (at Fabuloustreet) to help me find the closest match.

#172
This is that color I talked about in another post. It is almost identical to Essie's Mint Candy Apple. A gorgeous color, but not what I was looking for. I'd put this in the range of sea foam greens. The formula for #172 isn't as nice as Essie's. It's kind of streaky. This was 3 thick coats.

#206
I'd seen some swatches of this color online and I wasn't sure if it was truly as dark as in the pictures posted. So I ordered it anyway. It's way too green and much too dark! Pretty color though. The formula for this polish was decent. I'd call this a creme but it kind of had a translucent jelly-like quality. I think this was 3 coats.

For Audrey
I think I had told you that I bought this and then gave it to my sister. Well, she didn't use it so she gave it back! Yay! This is supposed to be a Tiffany's inspired color. It's very dusty looking. Too dusty to settle for this as Tiffany-blue. Is it just me or does anyone else think it needs a touch of green? This was just 2 coats.

#394
I FINALLY gave in and asked for assistance in finding a color! I couldn't spend anymore money on the wrong shade. (...Which, actually, I did. After I got #394, I bought #393 because I thought it would be a little bit better. Oops. Waaaay too blue!) Initially, I thought this was a duplicate of "For Audrey"... but as I should have known, you can't judge a polish by its bottle! When I put it on, I saw that it was much more saturated and didn't have that grayish weird tint to it. I have yet to see if it matches the Tiffany & Co. box but I can say it is nearly a perfect match to the envelope they mail their catalogues in :)

[The first photograph in this post is of Nfu Oh #394]


Saturday, January 09, 2010



15 responses to ""Tiffany Blue" Search (Swatches)"

  1. Unknown said...
    January 9, 2010 at 8:05 AM

    *lost for words....

    You really know how to polish your nails...

    MightyLambchop said...
    January 9, 2010 at 8:51 AM

    All of these are beautiful! I love For Audrey, it's in my top 10 faves.
    Best of luck finding a match!

    nihrida said...
    January 9, 2010 at 9:28 AM

    I love all of them! Now I might wanna get Nfu Oh 394 too. *sigh*

    Unknown said...
    January 9, 2010 at 9:59 AM

    Great comparison!! I really like 394!!! Thanks for the awesome Tiffany's blue shots.

    yardsticks 4 lunatics said...
    January 9, 2010 at 11:30 AM

    I love it! Any idea how a "commoner" such as myself could get ahold of Nfu Oh #394...I can't find it anywhere!
    :B

    KONADomania said...
    January 9, 2010 at 12:23 PM

    I think all look great, but I only have cg for audrey:)

    Polish Hoarder said...
    January 9, 2010 at 1:14 PM

    Thank you all for taking time to comment! :)

    Yardsticks 4 lunatics- I get all of my Nfu Oh polishes from fabuloustreet.com! There is a link on the left side of this blog :)

    MeganChair said...
    January 9, 2010 at 1:29 PM

    Great post! I'm really loving #206 (the dark one).

    Arie said...
    January 9, 2010 at 1:42 PM

    Nfu Oh 394 is the winner !!! I think I love it :)

    Paige said...
    January 9, 2010 at 2:23 PM

    Those all look fab!

    Unknown said...
    January 9, 2010 at 4:18 PM

    I love this color in all shades. Would you be willing to do some comparison swatches so we could see them side by side?

    Polish Hoarder said...
    January 9, 2010 at 10:13 PM

    Crystie- That is a great idea! I will do that. Can't believe I didn't think of it myself! :)

    Leanne said...
    January 15, 2010 at 5:37 AM

    Hey, just wanted to let you know that I've featured this post in my 'Free Love Friday' post here:
    http://freeze3006.blogspot.com/2010/01/free-love-friday-01.html
    :D

    Anonymous said...
    May 25, 2010 at 1:29 PM

    AW love it!

    A. Wright said...
    January 26, 2011 at 9:08 PM

    Thank you a million times for doing all the legwork on this. I've roaming around looking for a good match and almost settled on the For Audrey.


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