Showing posts with label china glaze. Show all posts
Showing posts with label china glaze. Show all posts

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Updates & China Glaze Pull Me Close

Whoosh!  My absence hasn't been so much from school being too much as it is life in general being busy.  I went to Wisconsin to visit my BFF Britty and her new adorable baby, who just so happened to be my Valentine, hehehe.  I just got back on Tuesday and had a test that night, I'm still wiped from playing catch-up from being gone for a few days but it was nice to get out of NJ and clear my head and spend some time with a dear friend.

I just want to get on my soapbox for a minute and rant about one of my most prominent grievances: I hate commuting.  I live about an hour from my school and go three days a week.  I take night classes because 1. I function better at night and 2. Traffic.  There is traffic going to school, but my school is towards the city.. and everyone commutes home from the city at night so I don't have as much traffic to deal with if I went earlier in the day.  I feel like I spend soooooooooooo much time in the car.  I take double period classes, so they're 2 hours and 45 minutes but I'm seriously out of the house for about 6 hours because of the commute, parking and the walk to class.  That is all. I could rant for days, though, you know me, lol.

Another update is I have reached the 250 follower mark (and uh, a little beyond, too!) and I intended to hold a giveaway when I reached that milestone.  I mentioned in my Blogger Appreciation Giveaway that there would be another one soon.  Plans are still a "Go" as far as I'm concerned, I just need to figure out what to giveaway.  I promise - I haven't forgotten!

On to the nails, China Glaze Pull Me Close:


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The mani I have for you today is an utter disappointment.   Yea, it looks cool but ugh.. it was such a pain in the ass.  This is a one handed mani, meaning I never did my right hand due to complications.  To start, I don't think magnetic nail polish is for those with a deep C-curve.  Mine is pretty serious:



Well, that's a weird angle.  But it is hard to get a flat magnet to work with such curvy nails, ya know? I know I know, roll the magnet with the natural curve. It took about 4 tries per nail to get an "acceptable".  No base color, so it didn't take as long as it could've.  Luckily I think most magnets are opaque enough to be used on their own.

I couldn't get the chevrons or star to look decent so stripes it was.  It was time consuming and polish was wasted.  I love the effect but I couldn't do it on my right hand, no matter what I tried.  I ended up giving this away to a friend a long with my Layla Magnetics.


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Such a damn shame! All of the attempts on my right hand looked like my pinky or thumb; just really weak.  My middle finger looks the best, but just to remind you that was about attempt number five.  I don't think its the company's fault because I had the same problems with the Laylas.  Oh well, one trend I suppose I won't get to relish in is all!

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Lynnderella Connect the Dots

I am so excited to finally have this baby in my possession!  Glitters and I don't always get along, as they tend to sheet off, but this lovely wore like iron!  Not a bad thing to say about it.  Connect the Dots, I think, is a somewhat fool proof polish. I can't imagine it looking bad over anything and additionally, I think it adds something special to existing polishes.

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This is two coats of Lynnderella Connect the Dots over two coats of China Glaze Dance Baby.  Base coat is CND Stickey, top coat OTD.


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Look at those two GIANT glitters on my thumb!

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When I was younger there were these bouncy balls that were designed to look like fake rocks.  They were irregular in shape and gray with black and white speckles on them.  CtD reminds me of them, a lot.

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Yum. Does anyone want to set up residency in this bottle with me?

Friday, January 6, 2012

China Glaze Techno

So I'm totally guilty of photographing my manicures regularly and letting them back up and not posting them.  I'm also guilty of not taking notes of how many coats and in this case, remembering which colors I've used.  Some of the colors from the Electropop collection are really similar as I've pointed out before and I'm not 100% sure on which the reds/pinks are here but I've swatched them with Techno over top of them. 

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What a fun topcoat, right?  I don't have any/many like it so it's a fun addition.  I don't have pictures but I did my friends nails with China Glaze OMG with Techno on top and it looked like a friggin' disco on her nails!  So sparkly and most certainly eye-catching.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

China Glaze Electropop & For Audrey Comparisons

Two of the blues in the Electropop collection reminded me a bit of For Audrey.  I don't mind having these "back ups" of FA because I really do love that color, but I wanted to share what I've observed.

For Audrey - Aquadelic - Kinetic Candy

What I noticed is Aquadelic has some more green in it than FA, but just a little.  On the nail KC appears much more like a powdery blue in comparison to the bottle shots.


Aquadelic and FA come close but Aquadelic actually stains.  When I swatched my whole hand and upon removing these comparison swatches, it's official.  I'm not sure why it stains, its just a regular old creme.  I like it colorwise the best out of the three, but the staining has me sad.  It's the only one from the Electropop collection that stains, though.


Hope you found this informative (=

Monday, December 26, 2011

China Glaze Electropop Brights Swatch and Review


I have the second half of the Electropop Collection from China Glaze to show you today.  These are the "Brights" and you guessed it, they're brighter, more bold hues.


Gaga for Green - 3 Coats
Surprisingly Sheer, built up nicely, though.

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Wicked Style - 3 Coats
Appears really close to Fucshia Fanatic, I'll have to do a comparison.


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Sunshine Pop - 3 Coats
Subtle shimmer, super bright, love this one!


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Aquadelic - 2 Coats


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Make Some Noise - 3 Coats

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There's a ton of dupey colors in this collection, I'm going to try and figure out what comes close with polishes I already have and then swap them away most likely.  The formula on these were better than the Lights in my opinion, the colors were more fun, too.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

China Glaze Electropop Lights Swatch and Review

This post is a swatch and review of the Electropop Lights Collection.  I have the Brights and will get to them soon, I promise!  These swatches were "quick and dirty"meaning they weren't worn as manicures, I was just painting, photographing, removing and repeat!  So I apologize for the battered skin, jacked up cuticles and ginormous "gaps" on my nails.  The colors are true to life which is all that matters..I hope.


All have CND Stickey for basecoat and Out the Door as topcoat.


Fuchsia Fanatic - 3 Coats
Applied like a jelly for the first 2 coats, opaque at three.

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Dance Baby
Two Coats, decent formula.

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Kinetic Candy
Two coats, no problems

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Electric Beat
Two coats, great formula.

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Sweet Hook
Two coats, goopy and thick formula. Photographs a bit pinker than it really is.

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Gothic Lolita
3 coats were needed. Very runny/watery formula. 
One of two shimmers in the entire collection.
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