Ahh, the China Glaze Awakening set, for Halloween 2010. I’ve really been looking forward to this, and I bought it on Transdesign as soon as I found out it was available. I don’t know what kind of fairy dust China Glaze has been sprinkling on me, but all of their collections have had this effect on me lately.
Also, I rounded my nails, and I think I kind of hate it. What do you guys think? They were getting so severely squared and I wanted a change, but I really like the square shape better on me.
Zombie Zest, 3 coats.
Oh my. This is my favorite! My pictures don’t really do this one justice, it’s so incredibly sparkly in real life! And I love the color, a sort of bright swampy green. It looked opaque on my nails, but as you can see from my picture, I could’ve used a 4th coat, I think. This isn’t the chunky glitter of the other polishes in this set, it’s very fine glitter.
Mummy May I, 3 coats.
This is so original, especially for Halloween! A dark jelly base (could be black, I dunno?) with bright purple chunky glitter. The glitter is much more sparse than in the other polishes in this set.
Ick-A-Bod-Y, 3 coats.
OK, I just can’t like this one. Kind of like my reaction to Fortune Teller, I guess? I don’t know what it is about this type of glitter polish that makes me gag. Anyway, it’s orange chunky glitter in a green jelly base. However, after the required 3 coats, I find that the green base gets swallowed up in the glitter and I can’t really tell that it’s green anymore.
The green one is extremely close to Orly’s “It’s Not Rocket Science” I went to snatch these all up today and luckily I had the Orly one on…the color on my nails looked almost exactly the same as the bottle for Zombie Zest.
Yeah, I think I’ve heard that. All these exact dupes we’ve been getting lately are so annoying!
Nice swatches. I really love the green one. I am not crazy or the orange one myself, so I understand your reaction.
The green one’s my favorite too!!!
Oh, this is not bad, I kind of like this nail shape on you! I wouldn’t go much more rounded than that though – it’s kind of softly rounded haha.
I love all of these on you, but there were several people I know who didn’t like FT either, and not surprisingly, they didn’t like Ickabody (too lazy to do the spaces haha)either.
Thanks! Yeah I don’t think I could go more rounded than this, it about killed me as it is!
These swatches look lovely, even if your nails aren’t their usual squared shape. I actually prefer squared edges over rounded, but find that squared nails cause mine to snag and break easier than squoval or rounded edges. I like these rounded edges on your nails, so keep them if they make you happy!
Thanks! I agree, I prefer squoval, but I think that I’m not exactly sure where the line is between square and squoval, and they were getting more and more square!
these are sooo pretty! great great colors for halloween
yeah, I’m pretty darn happy with them!!