China Glaze Foxy

Do you see this?!  I was pretty excited about this color when it came in.  Apart of the Vintage Vixen collection, Foxy is as a burgundy frost with shimmer.  At first, I wondered if my Foxy and Riveter Rouge had their labels switched!  The bottle itself is so pretty!  I don't think I should take pictures at this time of day though with the sun nearly directly overhead - it makes my bottle pictures awkward.

I took another picture of the bottle so you could see the pretty shimmer but let me tell you, I didn't think this was a frost!  Actually, I'm horrible with finishes, so I'm going to link you now to Lacquerized and her amazing post on finishes [click here].

Anywho, now for pictures!  I used a base coat of Seche Natural, 2 thin coats of Foxy, and a top coat of Seche Vite.

I can see the "frost" now, because of the brush strokes, but WHO CARES?  I love this red - and there's an added amazing bonus.

Gold tones in the sun!  I'm a huge fan of anything red gold, and this polish is just that for me.  

Reds and I don't do well in the shade I'm learning, so I took an indirect sun picture (note how you can't see my pinkie finger?  It's all blown out in sun, heh).  I had to fight myself from making this a whole manicure - I really want to get this whole collection out first.  Plus I have so many more polishes to swatch still!  ^_^

I would buy this polish again, hands down if nothing else, for the gold shimmer tone.  Lovely lovely lovely.

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].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

China Glaze Riveter Rouge

Launching July 6th, the Vintage Vixen Fall Collection looks pretty amazing.  Even though FedEx seriously attempted to crush my package (and I made the carrier list that the box was seriously CRUSHED before I'd sign  for it), all my polishes were happily in their boxes.  Riveter Rouge is listed as a "deep red shimmer" but do you see what's in the front of my bottle?  GLITTER.  Oh yes, glitter.  Teeny tiny silvery gold microglitter.  HEART.


I used a base coat of Seche Natural, only one coat of Riveter Rouge, and a top coat of Seche Vite.  The formula was pretty awesome - no pooling but it wasn't too thin.  After looking at my sun pictures, I could have probably afforded a second coat, but I was just too excited.

As you can see, the microglitter isn't as defined on the nail as it is in my bottle but look at that red!  It reminds me a bit of China Glaze Drive In from the Retro Diva collection, but I know they aren't exactly the same.  There's a bit of brush strokey ickness in this color but it's totally tolerable.  I just recently buffed my nails, so it's not my natural ridges.

Check out the back of my bottle - all that microglitter is gone!  It's like it all floated to the front of my bottle, possibly in shipment.  Oddly, this reminds me a LOT of the Specialty/Glitters & Cremes collection that China Glaze came out with... tons of glitter in the bottle, not so much on the nail, but still beautiful.

In the shade picture, you can really can't see the glitter or the brush strokes at all - just a nice pretty red shimmer.  How many reds can one girl have?  Well this girl can have this one too.  Happy camper!

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].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Glitter Comparison

I have a problem with shiny objects.  I see all the glittery pretty objects and my mind goes to La La land.  I will almost always buy rainbow glitter nail polish, even though I have tons of it.  I haven't EVEN gotten to all the rainbow glitter polish that China Glaze came out with for the Specialty collection, also called Glitters and Cremes.  Oy.  Deliberately blurry picture ahead!

China Glaze Polar Ice is from aforementioned Specialty/Glitters and Cremes collection.  China Glaze Fairy Dust is from Fashion Fairy collection.  Cover Girl City Lights 430is apart of the Boundless Color and is considered a top coat.  It was made to replace the discontinued Cover Girl Continuous shade Quicksilver 130.  Finally, Savvy Femme Couture "Touch of Glitter" was at my local Sally's in their summer displays.  These were all under $5 (more like $3.50, but I can't find my receipts so I'm guessing).


I knew that trying to post these on the nail bare, wasn't going to work.  Instead, I took a single coat of CND Blackjack over Seche Natural, and then just one coat of each glitter.  Here's the result.

As you can see Polar Ice has this blue/green flash to it, with large square glitter.  Fairy Dust and City Lights are totally dupes - both have the same coverage, the same amount of glitter.  Touch of Glitter is horrible.  Very sparse glitter.


I really liked Polar Ice so I took a super macro shot for you.

Yay!  Ultimately, Cover Girl City Lights was cheaper than China Glaze Fairy Dust BUT I only found one bottle of Cover Girl City Lights in my whole town and I had to literally sit on the floor to find it.  China Glaze Fairy Dust is in CG's core collection at Sally's (which is also at eye level and higher at my store).  I am pretty frustrated with Savvy though.  I have another bottle of it up on my untries and I just want to chunk it.  What's your favorite glitter from my 4?  (PS: this is just 4 swatched... I have like 10 more rainbow glitters including a bar glitter.)

Zoya Gilda

As soon as I saw this color, I immediately thought Wizard of Oz - did anyone else?  Gilda was apart of the 2010 Sparkle collection, and listed as "fashion pink sparkling metallic."  I'm still not sure why they considered this to be the "metallic" collection.  I'm still going with microglitter.  Pictures in the sun don't even remotely show how pretty this color is.


I used a base of Zoya Anchor, 2 coats of Gilda, and a top coat of Zoya Armor.  This polish was so pretty, went on like a glove on my nails - very nice, very soft.

My sun was setting at this point, so I snapped a quick sun picture so you can see how pretty this shines.  The pink is more reddish but did have a blue flash to it, which was quite awesome.

I adore microglitter or glass fleck or whatever - it's just so pretty.

Here in the shade, you can see that blue flash I was talking about - it comes from the glitter - quite cool.


Zoya [official website] can be purchased on their website for $7/bottle.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Claire's Mood Daring/Innocent

Oh back to Claire's.  This was another one of their Mood polishes that I didn't think I'd like all that much.  As you can plainly see in my bottle picture, It looks like "Daring" is a greyish color (and in the hot Texas sun, the bottle looked like it too), and the "Innocent" color looked like a whitish cream color.  Unlike "Calm/Wild", this was a creme polish, not a glitter.


I used a base coat of Seche Natural, 3 coats of Daring/Innocent, and a top coat of Seche Vite.  Imagine my surprise when I saw this.

Um what?  Now granted this is in the sun, but that's no creme, that's butter yellow.  The tips almost look greenish grey.  It reminded me a tiny bit of a banana, but I was going to roll with it.

In the indirect sun, you can start to see more of that butter yellow/olive green color again.  Now this was actually the next day (I applied it at night) and frankly, I had a bad day that day.  Lots of construction type work, so the polish was starting to chip and peel just a bit.


Now here's the fun part.  I went into my bathroom and ran the water.  First, I used super cold water to get the "Daring" color to show up.

That is totally a weird yellow green!  Not grey at ALL.  I'm so confused.


Next I used some hot water (ow) to get the "Innocent" color to show up.

This color is definitely a buttery yellow, not a white cream.


I turned off the water and was able to snap a slight wet but very true picture of how my nails looked most of the day.

Overall, I was pretty happy with this one.  I love my glitters, but sometimes I can love a creme too.  Again, this was $5 but they seem to constantly have the buy one, get one half off deal.


Claire's is available world wide or online [official website].