[unpaid/sample] You may well know the name, Otis Batterbee, for luxury make up brushes – he currently has a collaboration with everyone’s favourite make up artist, Caroline Barnes (HERE)- but a little diversification never hurt anyone and so, here are the Otis Batterbee Nail Colours.
There are six different Nail Bar In A Box offerings – Reds, Pinks, Greys, Jellys, Deeps and Nudes – and as you see, I have the red variant here. I know that the reds I’m showing you look somewhat similar and you do need to be particular about your reds to appreciate the difference – I am and therefore I have completely fallen for Exacting Crimson, a visceral and juicy blood red that would give vampires a reason to look twice.
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In this picture, Exacting Crimson is on the right and Rather Red on the left. The deepest red is Really Ruby. There are also several trio sets that are a single colour and a Top and Bottom Coat.
If you have nail aficionado in your sights, I can’t see that they’d not utterly love this. It’s all so luxe. I love the bottle shapes, the nail polish brushes are perfection as you might expect, and the shades are deep and highly saturated. As you can see, you also get a crystal nail file with the Nail Bar In A Box sets – a word of warning if you haven’t used these before – they will out-file any emery board by about 100 times. They take a lot of excess nail off at a time so go gently! They also last forever.
From bottom to top on the wheel (and I’m sorry, I stuck my finger on Exacting Red – insert eyeroll emoji) are: Rather Red, Really Ruby and Exacting Red. The formulations are boosted with apricot and vitamin E and free from the usual suspects.
The application is as smooth as a Rolls Royce – it’s sublime; the brush is a joy as it hugs around the nail and the formula is gleaming from the get-go with two coats being all that are needed for a full colour depth. My one small niggle is that the top coat isn’t a quick dry so I gave my nails an extra top coat over the Otis top coat with a fast-dry and the shine is incredible. These truly feel like luxury polishes. At the moment, I see that the sets are £63.75 instead of £75 and the trios are £29 HERE. If you want to buy single shades, you can find them for £15 each (23 shades) at Fenwick HERE.
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