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Posted by Jeannie on: February 12, 2012, at 11:16 am in category: China Glaze, green, Nails, shimmer An ollllld, hard to find polish. Probably because it was like, the only green China Glaze released in like 7 years. This was released sometime between 1997 and 2000…it was actually one of the core line polishes that wasn’t part of a collection.
So Moonpool is a lovely dusty green with gold shimmer, it’s actually really pretty. 2 coats.
Now, when the Island Escape collection was released last year, I heard speculation about Cha Cha Cha being a dupe for Moonpool, so I decided to compare them. First, Cha Cha cha by itself, 3 coats.
Nope, not even close. They’re in the same family, but that’s it. They’re both brushstroke-y. Cha Cha Cha is much yellower, and MUCH more sheer. Moonpool actually had pretty good opacity, surprisingly.
Posted by Jeannie on: February 12, 2012, at 12:20 am in category: black, blue, creme, foil, glitter, gold, green, shimmer, silver, white So here’s the deal: after 3 years of blogging, I’ve finally gotten around to improving my lighting situation. I’m finally pretty happy with my swatch photos, but I also have like…60 backlogged polishes to post. So I’m going to be swatch spamming for the next little while to clear them out. Not much description, just post and go!
I pretty much adore all of these. Orly is a brand that I always pass by, but man, have they put out some winners lately.
Sweet Peacock, 2 coats.
Meet Me Under the Mistletoe, 3 coats.
Shining Star, 1 coat over Nicole Green Up Your Act.
Androgynie, 2 coats.
This is officially one of my favorite polishes. I love everything about it. It looks like a solar system!
Lucky Duck, 2 coats.
Au Champagne, 3 coats.
Another absolutely lovely polish. This Christmas collection didn’t seem to get much publicity, and I only got this polish cause it was clearanced at Sally’s, but I lOVE it!
Here Comes Trouble, 3 coats.
This is not a good representation of this polish, I think, because I’m looking at this pic and shuddering, but I really liked this in person. It’s not as sheer as it look here, and the multi-sized glitter makes it special.
Lunar Eclipse
Twilight, 1 coat over Finger Paints Sculptured Scarlet.
Posted by Jeannie on: February 8, 2012, at 8:57 pm in category: China Glaze, creme, green, purple, shimmer, teal I’m trying out some changes to my lighting setup. Any thoughts? These are FLASHLESS photos for the first time in my swatching history, so I’m excited about that, but I’m still not done tweaking quite yet.
Gothic Lolita, 2 coats.
This is a WEIRD polish. I mean, it’s very good, but weird. In the bottle you can see glowy purple shimmer, but on the nail, it looks like a purple base with blue…speckles. No glow, no shimmer. Very strange. However, I adore this color.
Aquadelic, 3 coats.
Another winner! This is very close to For Audrey, but a little brighter, a little greener. For Audrey looks very dusty next to Aquadelic. The formula was a little streaky, though. Sadly, I couldn’t get my swatch to be color-accurate – this is actually much greener.
Gaga For Green, 2 coats.
OK, I think this is my favorite. It’s very close in shade to Nina Ultra Pro Leaf Me Alone, but again, a little brighter. This was also surprisingly sheer, but it built up well.
So, to be honest I wasn’t all that excited about the Electropop collection…the colors never seemed all that interesting or special to me. And after trying these three colors, I was right – they’re not really…innovative. But still, they are SO. GOOD. They’re bright and cheery and perfectly formulated and it’s like having Easter eggs on my fingers. All that to say that I’m off to go buy the rest of the collection RIGHT NOW.
These products were sent for review.
Posted by Jeannie on: January 22, 2012, at 12:22 pm in category: Nails OK, new rule. Anything that comes into this house must be swatched immediately. Of course, I made this rule before I remembered that I received these yesterday:
A bunch of old China Glazes from a blogsale.
- Emotion
- Cloudburst
- Cherry Pie
- Go Crazy Red
- Rainy Days
- List Mist
- Rose Among Thorns – something is fishy with this, it looks exactly like Japanese Koi. I suspect polish mixing.
- Japanese Koi
- White On White
- Pink Champagne
- An Affair to Remember
- Jetstream
- Celtic Sun
- Delight
- Stella
- Tempest
- Coral Star
- Vertical Rush
Then, the Icing Magnetix. Well, except for the green one, which they were out of. CAN ANYONE GET ME THE GREEN ONE, I NEED IT.
And a cute little mini set! No names on these, which is annoying.
- black creme
- silver foil
- red and gold glitter which looks just like that one from the ChG christmas collection this year
- neat tan crackle with shimmer
A few more random Icings. And also, Moonpool!
- All That Glitters is Green
- Birthday Beyotch
- All Night Long
- Moonpool
I also went to the Dollar Tree. I HAD to get all of the Chrome pens, cause they’re good for stamping! That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
And my Zoya promo order just came in. I got all of the bar glitter collection except for the pink foil, because I have a mini of that from Birchbox.
- Rina
- Holly
- Twila
- Noel
- Kissy
Well, following my new rule is going to take the entire day today.
Posted by Jeannie on: January 19, 2012, at 3:03 pm in category: Nails My smallest nephew always wants to go in my room when he’s over. Then he walks around pointing at all my nail polish that’s scattered around and exclaiming “Oh! Polish nail!” “More polish nail!” I don’t bother correcting him cause it’s damn cute. Then last night he demanded that I paint his nails dark blue. He also managed to convince TCB to let me paint his nails black. It was a good night!
These are all gorgeous. Much more gorgeous than they look in either the bottles or my pictures.
Emberstone, 2 coats.
Rock Solid, 3 coats.
Rock The World, 3 coats.
Rock-It, 3 coats.
Rococo A Go-Go, 2 coats.
Stone Cold, 2 coats.
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