When I saw the China Glaze On Safari Collection, there were 2 shades in particular that answered the call of the wild for me. 😉
China Glaze Jungle Queen was one.
Sure, there are tons of grayish purples on the market, so it’s not the most original, but I still love it and haven’t gotten sick of it.
Standard grays aren’t my favourite to wear, but when there’s a touch of purple like in this I’m a happy camper.
For a while, I’ve been wanting to share My Top 5 Favourite Greens with you all. And, during the past year, quite a few of you have asked me to do so. I’m finally getting around to it! 😀
As you know, green nail polish is my weakness. It’s my comfort colour. It’s what I can’t seem to get sick of wearing. It’s love, but also lust. 😉
It was really tough to whittle it down and to just pick 5, but I did it. (Haha, watch, right after I publish this, I’m going to have a moment where I go, “Ahhh! I forgot to include [insert the name of a green polish here]!”
Come see what made the cut.
Don’t let China Glaze Ride the Waves fool you! In the bottle, it just looks like your standard medium blue nail polish, but it’s so much more than that. (It’s like a surfer dude who can also give people a run for their money during a philosophical debate!)
So you can imagine how surprising it was when it turned out to be a jelly lacquer!
I have a soft spot for jellies because they have more depth than your typical creme or shimmer polish. It has that ‘squishy’ look.
Since I don’t have any dupes of this particular blue jelly polish, it scored major points in my book.
China Glaze Harvest Moon is a brilliant copper polish, and since I don’t have much of this kind of colour, I really enjoyed wearing it. It was a breath of fresh air!
I love how this colour looks like it’s lit from within in some lighting and then has dancing shimmer in other lighting.
One thing’s for certain – this is a terrific summer colour that also would be right on point in the fall, too.
After yesterday’s China Glaze disappointment, I had to post a rave about another colour just to balance out the book. 😉 When they get it right, oh boy, do they ever get it right!
Whenever polishes have so many shiny things going on like in China Glaze Optical Illusion, my camera has a tough time capturing it properly. (Okay, so I’m blaming my camera. It’s really the photographer’s fault. :P)
Warning: My photos make the polish look more silvery than it is in person. Please refer to my written description of the polish for better accuracy.
Do any of you have tips on how to better photograph really blingy polishes? I’m all ears…and nails! 😉
This polish comes from the China Glaze Prismatic Chroma Glitters Collection, which looked interesting. This was one of the two colours that I was most interested in trying.
Even though I liked the name of the polish and the idea behind the collection, let me tell you why I’m not crazy about Optical Illusion.
Yesterday I flossed China Glaze Yellow Polka Dot Bikini on here, but if you read the post, you knew that I put something on top.
Well, this is what I did! 🙂 Of course, since it’s such an in-your-face, high-contrast manicure, I loved it!
Even though the yellow solo was flashy, I had to put it ‘over the top’ like Steven Tyler kept saying on American Idol this week. 😛
What do you think of this Black & Yellow Konadicure (or…BundleMonstericure)?
Does it make you think of that Black and Yellow song? Or does it remind you of bumblebees who vandalized the beehive? (It reminds me of both.)
“She wore an itsy, bitsy, teeny, weeny, yellow polka dot bikini!” The lyrics from that old Brian Hyland song my dad used to play always pops into my head every time I see China Glaze Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.
At this point, I’m just one nail polish away from swatching and reviewing every single colour in the incredible China Glaze Poolside Collection! (It really is my favourite neon collection of all time. If you can get your hands on it, do it!)
Since yellow nail polish is notorious for being Streak City, I decided to try a trick that I usually mention to others, but never tried myself – layering over a white to build opacity faster.
For this yellow, it did the job quite well on that front, haha, but it also posed a major problem, which I’ll get into later in the post.
Note: My cuticles are super dry in all of these photos. Sorry if they gross you out, but the day I took photos, I was washing my hands a lot, and I wasn’t good about wearing lotion. :S
