China Glaze Stroll

China Glaze Stroll is apart of the Retro Diva collection and is listed as a "deep red with gold glitter."  It officially won out as being my HBO True Blood Ultimate Fan Experience color and I'm so glad it did.  This polish is amazing.  I seriously consider it being the older sister of Ruby Pumps.  I wore it for an entire 5 days before removing it - no tip wear, no chipping.  I did, however, do something odd in the night to get white marks/scratches in the polish but didn't realize it until AFTER I took these pictures, so I just had to do some photochopping with it.  Enjoy.


I used a base coat of Seche Natural, 3 thin coats of Stroll and a top coat of Seche Vite.  The polish was amazing in application - not thin or thick, no pooling in my cuticles, and no staining of the hands because I'm horrible sometimes and get polish on my skin.  Also, I buffed all the ridges out of my nails right before applying this, so my nails were super smooth for this polish.



Oh yum, look at that rich red base and the gold and red glitter!  Such a wonderful lovely color to wear.


Now in bright actual direct sun, this wasn't my favorite color, but it never is with glitters.  Glitters look best in the shade or indirect sun so you can truly see all the sparkle and bling.


Lovely.


I really was very happy with this color.  Shout out to the Truebies who asked to see my polish at Texas Roadhouse - y'all really made my night special.  I'm wanting to try on some more of the Retro Diva collection - I really did love that collection but never gave it much thought on colors since I bought them a little bit after its release and was wanting to go back to bright fun colors again.


China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

China Glaze Recycle

China Glaze Recycle is from the "ecollection" Collection and what I hoped to be my answer for a grey creme.  I've been wanting to find the perfect grey creme that wasn't too light but wasn't too dark.  I have a certain love affairs with greys.  I've been watching Color Splash on HGTV (and not just because of David Bromstad but he's a big reason), and I'm convinced that I want to paint my living room a blue grey very soon.  


Despite promo pictures of Recycle looking more dark grey, I was pretty surprised to find that Recycle was more of a purple grey to me.  Now, I could be totally wrong, but this is just how I saw it.  I used a base coat of Seche Natural, 2 coats of Recycle and a top coat of Seche Vite.


Now, application on this was WEIRD.  I wiped my brush on the side of the bottle like normal, but that made the polish too thin on my brush and leave bald spots, so I decided to just dip the brush in, and paint my first coat slightly thicker than normal.  I did the same with the second coat and it seemed to work just fine, although I felt like I was putting on globs of polish.  It didn't pool into my cuticles though and with a coat of Seche Vite, I was good to go in my normal 3 minute dry time so I don't get it.  


Now, here in the sun, this polish does weird stuff.  It's MUCH darker (to me at least) on my nails than in the bottle.  What?!  Granted this made me happy because I was looking for something a little darker, and it didn't have as purple of a tint as I originally thought.


But I really liked it in the shade.  It appears super glossy because of the Seche Vite but this is definitely just a flat creme.  Overall while I am happy with the polish in general, I don't think I'm going to wear it as much as I hoped.  I do think it would be very pretty in nail art, so I'm willing to try it out again soon.


China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Fashion Watch: China Glaze Yellow Polka Dot Bikini


I am a Katy Perry fan.  I liked her whole "I Kissed A Girl" phase, despite that it made me feel very dirty.  I liked "Hot and Cold".  I have the video of "Starstrukk" from 3OH!3 that Katy Pretty (as I like to call her) did a nice cameo and sang her heart out.  The one thing I can't stand about her, is her fiancée, but that's another story.

I haven't watched the MTV Movie Awards program yet.  I DVRed it but my son is in that wonderful age of three, where he's smart enough to know exactly what he's doing and saying, and can't be left alone for a moment.  He just recently found my China Glaze Stroll and painted all 10 of his fingers with it, and even used the bottle of Seche Vite to top it.  -deep breath-

Despite not watching the awards show yet, I did see this picture EVERYWHERE and then I got this press release today ^_^  Enjoy.  For my review of Yellow Polka Dot Bikini please click HERE

Dazzling in her Zuhair Murad mini dress and Rock & Republic grey platform heels, Katy Perry was definitely a stand out at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards. With so much sparkle, shimmer, sequins and shiny fabric going on, Katy nixed the accessories and instead went with a wild royal blue coif and neon yellow nails!

Katy Perry, who is known for her love of manicures and nails, went with her favorite celebrity manicurist Kimmie Kyees for this event. Kimmie, who is totally aware of the fact that Katy likes to stray as far away from the norm as possible, chose China Glaze Yellow Polka Dot Bikini as her first manicure color for the night. To make the neon yellow polish pop, Kimmie used a well-known manicurist trick by first applying a couple coats of China Glaze White on White underneath the Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. This insured that everyone was able to see Katy’s nails from a mile away! To achieve the desired nail length that Katy wanted, Kimmie also used ibd Natural Nail Tips. Kimmie says that she goes through so many of these nail tips that she can never have enough in her manicurist kit.
China Glaze colors may change from season to season, but our longwearing formula continues to provide consumers with the highest quality nail lacquers. Designed with the professional in mind, our 220-strand brush is great for ease of application. Best of all, our non-thickening formula provides perfectly even coverage.  China Glaze nail lacquers are available through salons and professional beauty supply stores nationwide. For more information, visit: www.chinaglaze.com .China Glaze is a division of American International Industries.
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You know how much I detest seeing RBL polishes going for ridiculous prices on Ebay. And yet when murmurings that Scrangie and No More War were becoming hot commodities on the nail polish black market, I decided to reissue these two previously limited-edition polishes.

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For those of you who are scratching your heads in confusion (and I’ll admit, the names don’t exactly bring to mind a delicate pale pink or a ripe juicy tomato red…), Scrangie is a shimmering iridescent beetle wing in violet/blue/green, inspired by the nail blogger of the same name. No More War is a pop-in-your-dirty-martini glossy olive green. Neither is your run-of-the-mill, off-the- drugstore-shelf shade. And given the demand for these colors, this next issue may only last as long as your weekend spray tan.

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I own a bottle of Scrangie, and I'm seriously thinking of picking up a spare.  Since Scrangie came out, companies have JUMPED to attempt to reproduce it (Sally Hansen Grape Going is one), but no one has come close.  Now No More War doesn't really do anything for me, but I'm not an olive person.  I used to have olive skin when I was a baby, thank you Grandma for your Native American + Italian genes.  However, I'm almost thinking about getting 2 bottles of it just for the sake of saying I have it.  Now, these are $18 a piece.  Is RBL worth $18 a bottle?  My honest answer is yes.  And there you have it.

China Glaze Awakening

China Glaze Awakening was from their Urban Chic (previously Platinum Series) Collection but now can be found in some of the core lines at Sally's Beauty Supply.  This is such a pretty purple pink with a gold shimmer.  It's almost a duochrome but I think I'm sticking with shimmer.  I had tried this color before but it was a messy application, mostly because I was still learning at the time.


I used a base coat of Seche Natural, 2 coats of Awakening, and a top coat of Seche Vite.


As you can see in the sun, the purple pink base is showing quite nicely.


However, you can move your hand around a bit and get some of that gold.


Indirect sun was probably my favorite time to photograph this color.  You really see the glowing softness of the color itself.


I'm still having some green lighting issues with my shade pictures but this one worked out well - check out the dusty gold rose on the middle finger - so pretty!


Finally, here's my "way back when" picture ^_^


Overall I was very happy with this color.  The polish wasn't too runny or thick - a pretty good consistancy and covered well in 2 coats.  In the sun picture, you can almost see some VNL but that's with some harsh 100 degree Texas sun.


China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].