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A New Haul

Jeannie — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:22:54 +0000

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.

Orly Mineral FX

Jeannie — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:03:51 +0000

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.

China Glaze Let It Snow collection

Jeannie — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:37:41 +0000

Well. I’m totally a fail blogger.

And I know your mama calls you good for nothin’
She says her baby is a failer and she don’t want you callin’

I love that song. Anyway, yeah, so I procrastinated even swatching these for like a month, then finally got them swatched, WEEKS before Christmas, and then I let them sit on my camera, unloved.

Blue Year’s Eve, 3 coats.

This is the same TYPE of polish as Blue Iguana from the summer collection, but this is much more purple. And I like the shade of this one muuuch better, also. Look at that glitter!

Champagne Bubbles, 2 coats.

I actually quite like this polish. The glitter is strangely bumpy, but I think it jazzes up an otherwise kinda boring polish. In pictures, the glitter shows up at just dark dots, but it’s actually quite sparkly. This is a polish that just isn’t very photogenic, I think.

Glittering Garland, 3 coats.

Very nice. Very close to Emerald Sparkle, but darker.

Holly-Day, 2 coats.

A creamy, smooth, delicious green. I want to describe it as “dark,” but it’s totally not. But it is a little darker than any of the other green cremes I own.

Icicle, 3 coats.

Eh. This is just a standard silver foil, and not one of my favorites. 3 coats is too many for a silver foil. ChG Millennium is totally better.

Poinsettia, 3 coats.

And here’s the first of the reds. Bright and red, what else can be said?

Ring In The Red,2 coats.

I HATE this one. It looks NOTHING like the awesome Ruby Pumps. The glitter is chunky instead of being smooth. I do enjoy the larger hex glitter, but really I think this one’s just too similar in theory to Ruby Pumps and so I can’t help comparing it and it just falls short.

Tinsel Town,2 coats.

I thought this one looked sort of boring in the bottle, but it’s now one of my favorites. Hex glitter and normal glitter, very opaque, I love it!

Twinkle Lights,3 coats.

This is another that is sort of a cousin to last year’s Party Hearty, but they’re actually very different. Still, I can’t help comparing them. Fine gold, red, and green glitter combine on the nail to make sort of a goldish shade.

Velvet Bow,3 coats.

This is extremely close to my beloved Ravishing, Dahling, it’s maybe a little more red and less brown. I found it difficult to get this to apply evenly.

Winter Berry, 2 coats.

I never know how to describe reds. It’s…red. It’s bright. There’s nothing wrong with it, and it’s not even that I don’t like red polishes, I just have a hard time describing them.

Snow Globe, 1 coat over Velvet Bow.

I tried Snow Globe over several different polishes. I don’t think it’s very photogenic though…I liked these in person, not so much in pictures. It’s very sparkly and throws off a lot of colors.

1 coat over Tinsel Town.

1 coat over Ring In The Red.

These were provided for review.

this is pretty neat.

Jeannie — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:20:55 +0000

AND, Coupons.com has a $2.00 coupon for these. Use zip 90210 and click on Personal Care. $5ish each is sooooooooo much more reasonable for these.

3 China Glaze Bar Glitters

Jeannie — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:54:46 +0000

These were a recent eBay find, and I was SO excited to get them! I’m sitting there at work bidding while on my phone, and I ended up getting them all for a fairly good price. These were from a very, very old collection, by my best guess released sometime pre-1999. I don’t know much about this collection, or even if it was officially a collection, really…but it was 6 bar glitters that all had names with an outer space theme.

Honestly…these aren’t great. I’m glad to have them because I’m obsessed with vintage China Glaze, but present-day bar glitters would probably do the job better.

Aurora Borealis, 3 coats.

This is the best of them! Green and silver bar glitter in a clear base.

Moon Over Miami, 3 coats.

Silver holo glitter in a light grey base. It’s so hard to tell what aspects of these polishes are because of their age, and which were originally there. This one has a very strange speckly base, though. It’s not that noticeable, however.

Jumpin’ Jupiter, 2 coats.

Aaaaaand Jumpin’ Jupiter was also a strange one. The base was thick and oddly opaque – but again, I’m not sure if it actually looked like this in 1999. Dark grey base with silver bar glitter and purple and green bar glitter. But the purple and green are sparse enough, and the base is dark enough, that I suspect color bleeding.