China Glaze You Move Me

You Move Me is a bronze shimmer polish from Magnetix collection. It reminds me of tiger eye stone. I used black base to make waves more obvious, because this polish is also on the lighter side.

Glitter Gradient with Lynnderella Change

Hi Ladies!

I decided to spice up this Monday with a little bit of sparkly gold. 

Today I’m showing you Lynnderella Change – gorgeous glitter top coat with lots of gold and copper particles of different sizes. It is absolutely posh and stunning. Originally, I wasn’t planning on buying the Change, but then I saw amazing gradient glitter manicures from my fellow bloggers and I gave up J

This is my attempt to make a gradient glitter mani. I used 2 coats of China Glaze Periwinkle as a base.

China Glaze It's Alive!

It’s Alive! Was a part of the China Glaze Haunting collection for Halloween 2011. It’s a gorgeous murky green glitter with some golden sparkle in a jelly base. The application is flawless, I used 2 coats.

China Glaze Magnetix Cling On

Cling On is a green magnetic nail polish with golden shimmer. China Glaze Magnetix is sheerer than Nails Inc. magnetic polishes. I used 1 coat of CG Westside Warrior on index and middle fingers. Ring finger and pinkie are painted with just one coat of Cling On without the base.

Personally, I like the effect with the crème base more.

Crackle Circles Manicure

I haven’t used crackle for a while. And frankly speaking, I’m not obsessed about it anymore, mostly because of the limited ways to use it.

I decided to do something fun with it and see how it turns out. This mani is really a blind guess. 

I used:
- China Glaze Concrete Catwalk
- OPI Silver Shatter
- Hole reinforcements

Ikat Manicure

I love ikat prints and I was quite inspired by the idea of making an ikat manicure. Ironically, when I made it I saw some similar manicures on the web. Even colors matched!!! 

Personally, I think this one is perfectly implemented by Nails by Very Emily J 

Here’s the result of my experiments. I used:
- China Glaze Secret Periwinkle as a base color;
- Nail Inc. Taxi Black;
- Revlon Teak Rose;
- NYC white nail polish.

China Glaze Prismatic Part 2 - Ray-diant and Prism

Hey Ladies,
On Friday I posted the swatches of Liquid Crystal from Prismatic collection. You can find swatches here.
So far, Liquid Crystal is the one that I liked the most, in terms of the color and duochrome effect.
Ray-diant and Prism are also interesting, but the base is silver, so it creates a less interesting effect.

Ray-diant is the silver-grey glitter with larger glitters of different colors. It really doesn’t show the chrome effect too much. The polish is mostly silver in artificial light and light metallic green in the daylight.

Prism is the silver-purple glitter. It also has multiple larger glitters of gold, silver, pink, green and blue colors. All of the polishes from Prismatic collection have the same large glitter particles; the base is the only thing that differs. I generally like everything lilac and purple, so I had to pick it up as well.

Overall, I can’t say that I was disappointed with the Prismatic collection, but I just wasn’t very excited or impressed either. The polishes are very nice, but the texture and finish do not differ greatly from the Eye Candy Collection to me. I didn’t see WOW duochrome effect that I wanted to see. It’s nice to have couple of the polishes, but I wouldn’t recommend buying the whole collection.

China Glaze Prismatic Collection Part 1 – Liquid Crystal

Prismatic is the one of the spring collections I was very excited about. The nail polishes are described as Chroma Glitters. Being a huge fan of everything with glitter and duochrome, I simply couldn’t resist (I wish CG would add a little bit of holo effect too..lol).

I ordered Liquid Crystal, Ray-diant and Prism. I liked other ones as well, but I will see swatches of other girls and then decide if I need anything else from Prismatic Collection or not.

Today’s post is about Liquid Crystal. It’s very hard to describe this nail polish concisely:) It consists of very small duochrome glitter base that changes the color from metallic blue to purple. Liquid Crystal also has a lot of medium sized glitter of various colors – silver, pink, gold, green, etc. This abundance of glitter creates a very vibrant and sparkly effect.

The formula and application is very smooth.I wasn’t impressed with Liquid Crystal when I applied it in the evening. All the uniqueness and beauty of this collection really shows in the sun when duochrome effect shows up.

Sorry, for my horrible cuticles guys. They’ve been in a poor condition lately.

Hope you enjoyed watching the pictures:)

Pink Wednesday Post: China Glaze Don't be a Square

This Pink Wednesday is a little retro for me. I digged this polish out at my mom's house.I don't remember why I left it there, maybe I just forgot it. Besides, I didn't post China Glaze swatches for a while...and I feel guilty, because I really like this brand.

This is the first holographic polish I bought and one of my all time favorites.

Don't be a Square is a pink holographic polish from China Glaze's Kaleidoscope Collection. Nothing fancy nowadays, right? But in 2009 this collection was quite a big hit.
It still pops up on eBay from time to time, but the price is very unattractive:)

Natural light photo

Essie As Gold As It Gets over China Glaze Westside Warrior

As Gold As It Gets is a part of stunning Essie Luxeffects collection. It’s a beautiful golden flakie top coat. I’m not sure if it’s actually flakies or some strange shimmer particles, but it creates a unique effect on the nails.

I decided to experiment with one of my favorite polishes of 2011 – military dirty green Westside Warrior from China Glaze. And Voila!..... As Gold As It Gets transformed urban “ugly” shade into glamorous golden olive patina.

Models Own Prey with China Glaze Snow Globe

Found some photos of my Models Own mani with China glaze Top Coat.

Models Own Prey is definitely not a new color. It’s a dirty taupe brown-cappuccino cream. But taupe was quite fashionable this fall. The reason I got is quite prosaic. It was a part of my Models Own Beetle Juice order and I didn’t know what to add order when I remembered that I’m looking for the substitute for OPI You Don’t Know Jacques. I OPI a while ago, but gave it away because it just wouldn’t stay on my nails more than 1 hour. I loved the color though and Prey is very similar to it.

China Glaze Snow Globe…OMG….I love it! It’s a clear-based multi-colored glitter. After I already got mine I saw MAC also had the similar one called Unconditionally Fabulous. Because the base is almost transparent I would definitely use it as a top coat.

China Glaze Mummy May I

Hey guys,

Today’s post is about China Glaze Mummy May I. I have this beauty for years now and I really don’t know why I never worn it or swatched it. Besides, I feel a little guilty that I didn’t pay enough attention for China Glaze lately, although I love this brand almost as much as OPI:)

Mummy May I is a dark purple-burgundy, almost black nail polish with bright purple/pink glitter. It’s much more beautiful in reality, camera unfortunately can’t reflect the real color. The last photo in the daylight is the closest to the real look.

Drip Mani with Color Club Pucci-licious and CG Gamer Glam

I have been into nail art lately and as I’m not so proficient in it as other girls, I’m choosing the easiest ones:)

Drip manicure is very easy to make. All you need is 2 or more nail polishes and nail art brush. First, I painted the nails with Pucci-licious. Such a gorgeous shade of purple. I noticed that Color Club Poptastic collection has a very specific polish formula – it’s more on the rubberized side.

I then used Matte Essie top coat to get rid of the shine.

Although matte Pucci-licious mani already looked pretty awesome it was a little too much for work, so I added China Glaze Gamer Glam holographic to create a drip mani.

China Glaze Metro Collection Fall 2011. Part 4 – Glitter: Skyscraper

Hi Girls,

Skyscraper is the last one from the China Glaze Collection that I bought. It’s a deep blue with silver, blue and purple glitter. The base is jelly, so 3 coats are needed for the effect you see on the photos.  

Overall, Metro Collection did not disappoint me. On contrary, all nail polishes I was excited about were really interesting in reality. So far, my Favorites of the whole collection are: Skyscraper, Trendsetter and Westside Warrior.