China Glaze Goin' My Way?

I constantly say that I'm looking for a good neutral office color polish, but I don't work in an office.  I have the awesome gift of getting to work at home, so no one is going to give me a tsk if I show up at my computer wearing bright blue neon polish.  Regardless, I'm still looking for some good neutrals.


I have to say, at first, I was kinda "ho-hum" about the entire Vintage Vixen collection until I remembered that this is a FALL collection.  Now, Texas doesn't really have a "fall", but I did live in Oregon for awhile, so I remember leaves changing colors and falling down.  Once I remembered that, I was all excited for this collection again.


Goin' My Way? is listed as brown frost with copper shimmer and that's pretty much dead on.  I used Seche Natural for my base, 1 coat of Goin' My Way? and a top coat of Seche Vite.  This formula was interesting - no pooling in my cuticles but it seemed a tad thick runny at first, if that makes sense.  I worked it out.


As you can tell in the sun, my camera went OOH SHIMMER, so you see a lot of copper in these pictures mixed with the brown frost.

But in the shade, oh yum that brown frost comes alive.  This is a good office color to me.

Look how rich that is!  Reminds me of a chocolate bar.  Mmm chocolate.

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 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.