Anyone who’s ever had a stellar manicure and pedicure can tell you that the real fun lies in indulging hands, forearms, legs and tootsies with a luxurious treatment packed with aromatic lotions, scrubs and masques. Using the right products, you can replicate that heavenly experience yourself at home.

As one of our favorite nail polish brands and sponsors, we thought you might like to know what makes Nubar so spectacular. Check out the video after the jump to learn more about this nail polish brand and to see just how goofy Kristin and Anne can get on camera.

While nail polish trends may come and go (holographic nail polish is uber hot for 2010), a pristine manicure is always in style. But short of repainting your nails every morning to avoid chips, how do you keep your fingertips looking perfectly manicured? The secret lies in taking three simple steps before you even begin to lacquer up.

It’s easy to forget that simple everyday activities such as writing or even holding objects can easily wear down the nails. Talika Nail Generator Serum boasts ingredients designed to hydrate and “restructure” fragile nails, with clinical tests reporting that nail contour appearance improves by 300 percent.

One of the best parts of a manicure or pedicure involve the skilled massage of extremities using scrumptious-smelling scrubs and lotions. You can get that same feeling at home when pampering your nails with Nubar Skin Essentials hand lotions and spa products.

Those of you who’ve been following us for a while know of our long-time love for Nubar Nail Lacquers. With a brilliant spectrum of colors in different themed collections released each season, we’re giving you the first look at the new Nubar Prism Collection to be launched in January.

Tis the season for giving, so in the spirit of thanking you, dear readers, we’re offering you the chance to score $1,000 worth of amazing gifts in the BeautyXpose “Holiday Haul!” This mega prize pack giveaway has a slew of brand-name sponsors, featuring longtime BX favorite nail polish brand, Nubar. On December 20, one lucky winner will walk away with this incredible haul of goodies!

At BeautyXpose, we adore chocolate, so when Nubar announced its newest nail polish collection was called Chocolate Truffled, we were ecstatic.

Kristin sampled these new nail polishes, each named after a delicious confection, and found they’re finger-licking good. (Just don’t try to eat them.)

Lately, we’ve fallen in love with several nail polishes from the Cleopatra Collection by Nubar (Passionate Purple is Anne’s personal new pick for fall 2009).  And as we admired our newly-polished nails in shades that were launched ahead of the upcoming fall trends, we got to thinking – what exactly goes into the making of these pretty polishes?  Noubar Abrahamian, the VP of Operations at Nubar (and the creative force behind these fantastic collections), was kind enough to lend us some brief insight.
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Goldi is at it again — testing nail polishes in an attempt to find one that is juuuust right. If you recall the ten-finger nail polish-off BX featured back in March when Goldi put 10 different nail polish brands to the test to find the one that could put up with her ravaging ways, this one is a tad different. This time, Goldi is trying to find the perfect shade of green to match the summer grass she enjoys sunning herself in.
In the original nail polish-off, Nubar nail polish was …

A BX staffer has a 10 nail polish-off