China Glaze Kinetic Candy

I don't typically buy a lot of China Glaze polishes (mainly because I don't find myself at Sallys often), but once in a while I am really pleased with China Glaze. Today's polish is such an example:

I received this polish in a recent swap, and I am quite happywith it, even though it's not terribly exciting-looking in the bottle.

China Glaze Kinetic Candy - 2 coats. This has a surprisingly nice formula for this type of colour. It reminds me a bit of OPI What's with the Cattitude?, but maybe a little dustier (less bright) and a tad darker... and with an immensely better formula. I purged the OPI ages ago. I think this shade of blue works well with my warm skintone :D



If I were the type to do nail art, I think white dots or snowflakes would look awesome over this polish.

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Tuesday night is guilty pleasure TV night: Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game on ABC Family. This episode of PLL is full of hard to believe twists and turns D:

I'm fully entertained :D

Christmas in July! Reswatch: China Glaze Party Hearty

This came out two Christmases ago, right? My bottle is about 50-60% full, which makes me pretty sad. I think the glitter mix in this polish is just perfect. I like the variety, but I'm not overwhelmed by too much going on. I can't wait for Christmas to roll around so I can wear this for a full manicure :)

ChG Party Hearty over Essie Marshmallow




I hope ChG re-releases this soon (I don't think they are for this holiday season, but maybe next year), because I can see myself wearing this every Christmas ~forever~. It is really one of my favourite glitter polishes of all time!

*is really wishing it were winter* So hot outside. I do not like.

Do you have a favourite Christmas/Holiday polish that you bust out every year?

China Glaze Skyscraper and Essie SSN-franken

Hi guys, it's been busy couple of weeks! I just filed my income taxes the other day, and am super busy planning my April trip to Australia/NZ/Tokyo! It'll be a 2 week trip, and I'm dying for the time off!

I have a couple of blue glitter polishes to show you today; both were RAOKs from two lovely ladies :)

China Glaze Skyscraper - I was lemming this for a long time, but never got around to picking it up. Beautiful and super glittery-looking!




Franken of Essie Starry Starry Nights - I long gave up the idea of ever finding myself a bottle of SSN, so put a SSN-franken on my wishlist! It is made with Essie Silver Bullions so it even comes in an Essie bottle :)




Here's a bottle shot of the franken and the bottom label of what was used to create it. I believe the glitter in Silver Bullions is the same glitter that is used in Starry Starry Nights, but I don't know for sure. The recipe is below. BTW, I am wearing American Apparel Office in these pictures :)



Recipe: "And it is indeed about 3/4 Essie Silver Boullions, then enough WnW Nocturnal to get it the right color, probably 4-5 or so drops of black, and then I finished filling it up with the remaining Silver Boullions (it was SUCH an exact science ) I just added the black a little at a time, until it looked right!"

China Glaze Glittering Garland

I don't think I posted this yet. I am such a hoor for greens, and this one is gorgeous.

China Glaze Glittering Garland - Swapped for this on a whim, I really love it!!


There are already comparisons out there with China Glaze Emerald Sparkle, so I compared it to the polish that first came to my mind when I started seeing swatches of Glittering Garland.

Comparison: ChG Glittering Garland and Orly Meet Me Under the Mistletoe - I thought it was a dupe for MMutM, but it turns out they are a bit different. MMutM is cooler toned and needs 3 coats, whereas the ChG only needs 2 coats.


I am alarmed at how soon Christmas is. This is what happens the one year we don't get advent calendars!

China Glaze 2NITE

One of my lovely nail-buddies actually sent this polish to me! We had arranged a little swap, and she decided to "throw in" her backup of this gorgeous polish. WUT??? Insanely sweet of her.

It almost didn't make it to me though, as the delivery confirmation showed "Delivered" and it was not in my mailbox. I called the USPS help number and filed a ticket; nothing came of that. I went to the local USPS office and asked if the package was there; I was told it was not. I called about 10 times over three days trying to get information from my mail carrier. The PO insisted the package was delivered to my building and must have been stolen.... from inside my locked mailbox. Ummm ok. I got no help at all, and after two weeks gave up hope.

I filed a mail theft claim here, and the package showed up the next day. It had been opened and resealed with white electrical tape. I don't know if it was related to the claim I filed, but either way, it was very suspicious, considering it was "Delivered" two weeks ago.

Anyways, I am so super grateful that my friend sent me this polish AND that it was returned to me from whoever had taken the package. I like to imagine the person opening it thinking, "I bet there's jewelry or something of value in here!! Wait.. what is this? Nail polish? What????"

China Glaze 2NITE






Do you guys have any mail horror stories?

China Glaze DV8

Guys, just a heads up, I will be updating my blog sale this Friday morning! I'll post again on Friday when it's up! :)

I got into polish pretty late, so I never really allowed myself to lust for the OMG collection. However, I was able to secure this polish in a swap with a wonderful lady :) It's just as lovely as swatch pictures, if not lovlier! I'm very happy to have this polish in my collection now! and with minimal angst!

China Glaze DV8 - 2 coats, excellent formula!

To be perfectly honest, though, I find the names in this collection to be horrible. My teenage years were rife with shorthands such as "u", "r", and "gr8". I never understood why kids used those shortcuts; it really was not that much harder to type the rest of the word out, even on an old-school cell phone. I'm glad that trend passed, but I'm a little annoyed it has been immortalized in a beautiful nail polish collection, LOL.

China Glaze Fortune Teller and please share your blog with me!

China Glaze Fortune Teller - the sweetest little LizzardVanReptile sent me this beautiful polish I had been lemming! NB makes me feel all warm and fuzzicles! Thanks again, Lizzy!



And, infamously, shown with matte topcoat:



China Glaze makes the best holiday polishes, amirite?!

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Okay so, I've gotten horribly behind on reading my nail blogs lately and keeping up with subbing to your nail blogs :S So, if you do blog, would you please share the link in a comment below? Thanks ^_^

ps. I was going to try and make a pun with the polish name, like, "Please 'teller' me your blog" but then I realized I would sound especially stupid. So there.

pps. Have a great weekend guys! I'm going shopping :D

China Glaze: Frosty and Party Hearty

I know it's as far away from Christmas as possible, but I realized I never posted my ChG holiday polishes! Plus, I finally got my hands on Frosty in a swap a couple months ago. So yeah.

China Glaze Frosty - Yay, it's finally mine! I wanted it as soon as it came out, but they didn't have it at my Sallys! Actually, I think NB said it wasn't showing up at any Sallys for some reason. Anyways, I got it, and I like it. Woot. 3 coats on my little nubs.



China Glaze Party Hearty - I think I was disproportionately happy to pick this up. I still love it. What a great combination of glitters. I wore this to my company Christmas party and got exactly 0 comments. WTH?? Can't wait for Christmas to come around again! My favourite combination is just over white, to be honest.



I wonder if there were any other polishes from their holiday collection I should have picked up...

Reswatch: ChG Emerald Sparkle

This was one of my first China Glazes that I bought in person! DBF picked it out of a clearance box that was sitting really high up (i.e. not in my normal line of vision) in a Sallys :D Time for an updated swatch since I got it so long ago!

ChG Emerald Sparkle - As far as I know, this is the "good" version of the polish. So sparkley. Sorry for the huge glare on the macro picture; I had two layers of SV on this polish since it did dry a tiny bit bumpy from all the glitter :)



Can you ever have too many dark green glitters? I'm not sure. Here are some comps.

Comparison: BB Couture Bonnie vs. China Glaze Emerald Sparkle


Comparison: Orly Meet Me Under the Mistletoe vs. China Glaze Emerald Sparkle

Reswatch: ChG Ingrid

My old swatch of this polish really didn't do it justice! The second picture is more accurate unless you're in a good lighting situation :)

ChG Ingrid - One of the two polishes I picked up from the Vintage Vixen collection. Total love for the gold shimmer running through it. One of my favourite taupe polishes!!

Reswatch: ChG Strawberry Fields

My Essie reswatches are done now!

How about a summery-pink?

I mentioned in a previous reswatch post that this is very similar to OPI Senorita Rose-alita. I hope some day I can decide which I want to keep. This one is much easier to find, though.

ChG Strawberry Fields

China Glaze Strawberry Fields and Watermelon Rind

Since people are going crazy over the Zoya promo (BOGO on their 15 new summer shades, in case you really do live under a rock! :)), let's think about some older glass-flecked summer shades. How about these 2 from China Glaze Summer Days in 2009?

I wasn't around when these first came out, but they really are lovely. I think I should have added the orange one to my TD order last night... oh well! This year's summer ChG collection looks like it will be similar (glass-flecks and all)! Yay!

I'm going to make a collective haul post after my TD order gets in. I need to see it all in one big pile!

These swatches are a bit old... the pics are not as clear and my nails are longer than I wear them now! I need to make a list of polishes to reswatch for my spreadsheet :)

China Glaze Strawberry Fields




China Glaze Watermelon Rind



Oh, and happy first day of spring! Nothing like wet snow to start the new season, right? Right?

China Glaze White Cap

Been a couple busy days at work and also some crazy winter weather! I finally got around to taking proper swatches of ChG White Cap, so here they are:

China Glaze White Cap: This is three coats on its own, and I really don't like it like this because you can see my stained nails!




Here is 1 coat of White Cap layered over Essie Marshmallow; I vastly prefer it like this!