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Home » Makeup » Nailing It! Shu Uemura Festive Rouge Festive Nails and some Festive Nail Ideas

Nailing It! Shu Uemura Festive Rouge Festive Nails and some Festive Nail Ideas

December 21, 2011 Paris B 32 Comments

PB Says: Peach_’s first post here is a review on the Shu Uemura Festive Rouge nail polish duos which were released in the Wong Kar Wai Christmas collection. We unfortunately do not get the nail polishes here in Malaysia. However, they are an idea of how you can paint your nails for the coming year end festivities using your own colours and glitter shades.

Shu Uemura Wong Kar Wai Festive Rouge nail review
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For Christmas 2011, Shu Uemura, together with filmmaker Wong Kar Wai, made it easy-peasy to adorn ourselves with party-ready nails. Part of their collaborative collection (introduced by ParisB here) includes nail polish duos with a solid color and a glittery companion, and I excitedly played with a red and gold combination, appropriately named Festive Rouge.

Shu Uemura Wong Kar Wai Festive Rouge nail review
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The 5ml mini bottles in this set are Shiny Rouge, a shimmery burgundy red, and a sparkly gold in a clear base with silver shimmer and large hexagonal silver glitter, simply named Gold.

I have to admit, I don’t have the talent for nail art (I’ll leave that to fellow nailer, Xin) and I normally avoid glitter for fear of pain-in-the-you-know-where removal. But even for me, the duo was a breeze to create fool-proof festive nails.

Shu Uemura Wong Kar Wai Festive Rouge nail review
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Shiny Rouge is a gorgeous polish, even without its glittery partner-in-crime. The photo above is taken in the shade when the shimmer is at rest. It’s a bordeaux wine red with sophistication, reminiscent of an alluring holiday party or a romantic Christmas eve for two, instead of a Santa red with presents and laughing children, if you know what I mean. 😛

Shu Uemura Wong Kar Wai Festive Rouge nail review swatch
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The shimmer peeks through for an incredible glow outdoors and under the light. There’s no teetering about it anymore; it’s such a sexy color, don’t you think? It took just two coats, and I’m not kidding when I say it’s possibly the smoothest polish I’ve ever applied with a brush that’s dense, yet thinly and precisely cut and easy to control. Color me impressed!

Ok, but since they did include a glittery polish, why not spruce it up a bit? Painting the entire nail with glitter only covered up the red underneath, so I tried my hand at some accent designs instead.

Shu Uemura Wong Kar Wai Festive Rouge nail review
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I attempted a triangle, ombre/gradient, random curve (inspired by the nails in this collection’s promotion photos and film), and a classic French. I suggest doing a design on one accent nail and leaving the rest red, but of course I won’t stop you from blinging out all 10 digits! The brush made it easy to draw straight lines, and the clear base makes mistakes less noticeable, hence fool-proof! 😀

My only qualm about the duos is that they’re double the price of one full size 10ml Shu Uemura polish, yet only 5ml each. However, this was my first experience with Shu Uemura polishes and I’m now convinced they’re highly underrated with buttery smooth formula. They don’t release polishes too often, so I hope they’ll keep making more!

What do you think? Have you tried Shu Uemura polishes?

A big thank you to ParisB for allowing me to share my first contributor post in her space! 🙂

Peach_

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Peach_ is a lovely young lady based in Japan, whose blog I discovered one day from a comment she left. I was intrigued enough to hop over to her blog which is all about nails, nails, nails! I’m not into nails but something about her blog, her beautiful pictures and her posts resonated with me. Peach_ will be contributing nail polish reviews and we might even catch a glimpse of something Japanese in her posts! 🙂 Peach_ blogs at alapeach.com

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Paris B is a 40-something beauty and skincare enthusiast with a practical and very critical view of beauty products and the world of beauty. Her mission on My Women Stuff is to deliver clear, honest reviews and facilitate discussions about beauty trends and life, tempered with a healthy dose of humour. Let the buyer's remorse be ours not yours! When not testing the newest skincare creams and lotions, or playing with makeup, find her testing her culinary skills in the kitchen at Chez PB. Read more about us here or leave a comment below or connect with us on social media at Instagram, Facebook and Twitter!

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  1. shopaholic says

    December 22, 2011 at 12:29 am

    O M G I was so tempted to buy them during black Friday! I’m glad to see the expert’s review on it. Thanks peach_! I love your nail art. It looks so effortless and elegant. Some folks do really complicated design with tiniest brush strokes, which is a big no no for me since I have no artistic skills. Did you apply a top coat? I’ll be experimenting during the holidays.

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  2. plue says

    December 26, 2011 at 2:55 am

    sigh, should have nab this when i was in Taiwan! >.< was half hearted as the SA wasn't very eager to serve me and i wonder why 🙁

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  3. Nicole says

    December 26, 2011 at 3:55 pm

    Gorgeous! I will definitely get them when they are available in Malaysia.

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  4. Fanny says

    January 4, 2012 at 6:35 pm

    hmmm…sorry to put up a request here, anyone knows where can I get this set of nail colours? Malaysia doesn’t import these nail colours and my friend tried getting for me in HK but it’s out of stock! 🙁

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    • Paris B says

      January 6, 2012 at 1:06 pm

      You can try Singapore but as its limited edition worldwide, chances are its all gone by now.

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      • Fanny says

        January 6, 2012 at 1:28 pm

        Haha…being “kia su” and to be sure, I just bought it from eBay yesterday!! The seller is from Taiwan, estimated to reach me more or less in 2 week’s time. 🙂

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        • Paris B says

          January 6, 2012 at 1:43 pm

          nice! 😀

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  5. Kellie says

    December 10, 2012 at 10:19 pm

    Where can I get this?

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    • Paris B says

      December 13, 2012 at 11:50 am

      This was a limited edition nail polish duo from Shu Uemura Christmas 2011.

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  6. Amy says

    June 9, 2013 at 11:42 am

    I just found this duo on eBay!

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  7. Jake says

    July 3, 2013 at 8:47 am

    That is a gorgeous color! So rich and classy. Perfect application too! : )

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